It gets funnier. "Nilpferd" is a compound word meaning "river horse" 
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel @CrystalDax
so is hippopotamus that's probably why the Germans call it that
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Replying to @DiogenesResear1 @CrystalDax
Whoa, I had never looked into it!1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @gamesbymanuel @CrystalDax
sometimes the ancients just didn't beat around the bush. here's another good one: rhinoceros is nose-horn
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Replying to @DiogenesResear1 @CrystalDax
That one sounds more intuitive to me. I had a lot of fun with compound words when trying to learn German. Glove is "hand shoe", faucet is "water hen", turtle is "armor frog".
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel @CrystalDax
i hear german is pretty good at that not really the same as compound words, but just as fun is hill hill hill hill (or tautological placenames)pic.twitter.com/w3KZlmNcjO
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Replying to @DiogenesResear1 @CrystalDax
I have to say English feels easy and straightforward to learn when your native language is Portuguese. :D
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel @CrystalDax
That makes sense. English is like America itself, it just takes from other cultures and pretends it came up with it on its own
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Oh, I don't mean it has similarities. It's just that it does not have as many things that needs special rules like accents (à, á, ã, â, ç), tenses and letters you don't pronounce "randomly". Still a bunch of inconsistencies, but it feels accessible from the start.
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel
Interesting I had thought it's irregular rules and spelling would be off-putting Or little things like "had had"
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They are, but once you realize romance languages are gendered and you need to memorize a gender for every word you use (not an exaggeration), the complexity balloons up to absurdity. Then you try to learn another and they don't match. Why.
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel
I always found it amusing that pencils are masculine and pens are feminine In Spanish, anyway
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