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Untranslatable German Words

An "erbsenzähler" is a person who counts their peas, and "kummerspeck" literally means “grief bacon”.

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For each printed REMORANDOM volume we present readers with words from a particular country or culture that have no clear and concise translation to English. For RR2 we selected some German words that have no English equivalent. Genießen!

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