Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher - No, I’m not kidding.

[Mira]

Germans legitimately can and do make up words that imply entire concepts.
This is a word for a tool that causes
"Egg shells being deliberately broken in designated places”

I took this photo for you to show I'm not making this up, "they" did.


While you are, hopefully, laughing, take a look at how German compares to other languages

[malthaussen]

1. Somehow, I think their tongues were in their cheeks on that one.

But German is a rich source of terrific compound words that describe concepts that would otherwise require a paragraph. Weltschmerz, Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude... the list goes on.

-- Mal

[mnhtnbb]

2. Very funny.

[petronius]

3. And yet, they couldn't come up with a word for "original"... or for "Germany."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. That is hilarious, my dear Mira! Thank you...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Takusariartorumagaluarnerpa

In the Eskimo or Inuit-Yupik language (called a polysynthetic language where long words denote complex things by adding suffixes) it's one compound word meaning "do you really think he intends to go look after it?"

http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-57252.html

[SwankyXomb]

6. ... of Ulm.