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  • Originally posted by DrPlacebo View Post
    A theocracy is not also known as a CHURCHSTATE.
    Well... It could be known as a church state, or even a church-state, but not without the space or the hyphen. Not in English, at least. In German, that's absolutely how words work.

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    • Originally posted by crazykate View Post

      Well... It could be known as a church state, or even a church-state, but not without the space or the hyphen. Not in English, at least. In German, that's absolutely how words work.
      Sort of like: nahrungsmittelfabriken

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      • Originally posted by dannyb View Post

        Sort of like: nahrungsmittelfabriken
        Right, or Zahnpastatubenverschlusskappe or Sollbruchstellenverursacher. Wordtwist would be more interesting in German.

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        • Originally posted by crazykate View Post

          Right, or Zahnpastatubenverschlusskappe or Sollbruchstellenverursacher. Wordtwist would be more interesting in German.
          It has been 58 years since I took German. Back in the 60s it was expected that you knew German if you were going to study chemistry. After two years of German in high school I decided to study biology instead.

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          • You can witness something mindbending, but apparently it cannot leave you MINDBENT. Things that I would argue leave me mindbent include the German language (see above).

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            • Something that's arguably void isn't VOIDISH.

              Also, from the same board, they're still not awarding points for COVID, though I figure that's going to start scoring points sooner or later.

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              • UNCOLA didn't make the lexicon.

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