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It only works if you say the O wrong! Neither "woman" nor "women" are said like that.

Oh, and all the other stuff about implying any strong & healthy friendship must have some underlying homoeroticism bullshit.

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[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know a woman who uses the phrase “breast friends”.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Germany, older ppl sometimes use the term "Busenfreunde"

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is that like "bosom buddies"?

[–] FlihpFlorp@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Germans really got a word for everything

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

LOL, not exactly. It's just that you can combine as many nouns as you want. The fact that you can turn pretty much any verb into a noun (Substantivierung) doesn't help with complexity XD

EDIT: e.g. German doesn't have specific words for vehicle or plane, it's just "stuff that drives" (Fahrzeug) or "stuff that flies" (Flugzeug) it's rly fun and allows for a lot of nuance, but can be rly confusing at times (even to native speakers)

Or the fact that "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" is a perfectly valid noun LMAO

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

"stuff that flies" (Flugzeug)

I'm liking the similarity (and presumed etymological link) to the English 'flung'

[–] FlihpFlorp@fedia.io 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah I don’t know any German but I know combining words is basically the language which leads to some fun direct translations

This was my poor attempt at a joke

[–] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It only works if you say the O wrong!

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

Woah mance.

People all over the world have close heterosexual relationships, often with a lot of physicality involved. These terms are entirely unnecessary... but I know why they were made, lol.