Funny German Word

I’m sure there’s a ton of them out there, but we came across this in class yesterday and I had to share.

The word is das Fischerstechen. According to my German textbook it means “fight of fishermen on river.” Who knew you needed to describe that situation so often that it needed it’s own word? I certainly didn’t. :)

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One Response to “Funny German Word”

  1. Jax  on March 19th, 2007

    Genius.

    It would be great if there were other words to denote different types of fishermen who may be fighting (for instance, fighting fishermen who fish for cod would be called X but a cod fisherman fighting a bass fisherman would be called Y)?


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