Friday, June 1, 2012

Dunder-smoker, Jax Beach

If any of my German readers know Schmitt, tell him I found his dundersmoker. I love German compound words. I usually saute my dunders but they might just be good smoked:-)

3 comments:

Martina said...

I would tell Schmitt if I only knew what a dunder-smoker could be ...

And: of course the real German compound is unhyphenated - to confuse the non-native speakers of course.

James Weekes said...

There was, in my youth, 50 years ago, a man who wrote about Heinrich Schnibble, a fictional German who had a way of cross-butchering German and English. One of my grade school teachers read us a Heinrich Schnibble story, as a treat, on Fridays before we took the bus home.

I remember one compound mangling that had all of us laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. Heinrich referred to a dog as a barkenpantensniffer and a dogcatcher was a barkenpantensniffersnatcher. So I love compound words.

Martina said...

Haha, this is great. Never heard of Heinrich before and so I had to google, of course:

Mule: Balkendummkopferfoddergeburnenclippenclopper

But you know, it sounds more Dutch than German to me ...