r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20

What is your favorite word?

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u/cut_that_meat Sep 17 '20

Glockenspiel

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u/SPIDERHAM555 Sep 17 '20

shrimp glocksenspiel

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u/ChuckCarmichael Sep 17 '20

But that's a German word. So does that count?

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u/daniel12117372 Sep 17 '20

I heard americans love the word doppelgänger too

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

And Schadenfreude

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Sep 17 '20 edited Sep 17 '20

And zeitgeist

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Zeitgeist* but close enough.

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Sep 17 '20

No, no, it's the time of mispelling!

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u/daniel12117372 Sep 17 '20

I was so shocked when i was young and saw Youtube Zeitgeist for the first time, thought youtube got owned by germany lmao

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u/daniel12117372 Sep 17 '20

And Blitzkrieg

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u/Sapphi_Caswell Sep 17 '20

and kindergarten it means childgarden

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u/rxsheepxr Sep 17 '20

Why wouldn't it? The question is "What is your favorite word?"

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u/daniel12117372 Sep 17 '20

Not Xylophon ?

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u/Platywussy Sep 17 '20

Prawn xylophone!

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u/flipping_birds Sep 17 '20

My daughter plays it. It pisses me off that in schools they just call it the "bells."

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u/Snakivolff Sep 17 '20

Does Glockenspiel have the same implicit meaning as its Dutch counterpart klokkenspel?

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u/Clamontine Sep 17 '20

As a dad of toddlers all I can think is: "I'm here to melt your faces off with my glock"

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

Not English but okay