Die Formulierung toll bedeutet awesome
German is a language that is complex and confusing
It contains such words as Sitzpinkler which can be quite amusing
But if you start to look for an adequate translation
Of ‘awesome’ you’ll find a lexical gapThe dictionary says ‘toll’ means ‘awesome’
But that doesn’t sound quite as cool
The meaning of ‘toll’ used to be ‘mad’ and ‘crazy’
Sometimes when I say it, I feel like a foolDie deutsche Sprache hat viel mehr Facetten
Als die englische Sprache und ich könnte wetten
Dass noch niemand eine adäquate Übersetzung
Für das Wort ‘awesome’ gefunden hatDie Formulierung ‘toll’ bedeutet ‘awesome’
Zumindest steht es so im Wörterbuch
Doch immer wenn ich sagen möchte, etwas sei ‘awesome’
Finde ich im Deutschen nicht das Wort, das ich such2011 Creative Commons by-nc Johannes “Jutze” Schult
A language is a flash of the human spirit. It’s a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.
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I find this absolutely fascinating!
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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That choong’s got some right bristols, I tell ya!
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