English: we call it sinusitis because it’s Latin :)

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English: we call it sinusitis because it’s Latin :)


German: we call it Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung because the Höhlen neben your Nase are entzündet.



English: we call it diarrhea because it’s Ancient Greek :)


German: we call it Durchfall because everything just falls durch



Spreching Engleutsch, or, that konfusierte Moment when you vergesse a word in one language and hineinstecke the same Wort vom ander Sprache into the sentence.


And then there’s making ...


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