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[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 months ago
[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 25 points 7 months ago

People like to interpret things with a modern lense. The translation of his job title might be carpenter, and people then go "ok, what does a carpenter do nowadays - builds chairs and tables, right". But the word being translated is more aking to "builder", a construction carpenter, a mason, something along those lines.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 14 points 7 months ago

In German, those professions actually have different names. The furniture maker is a Schreiner or Tischler (lit. "tablerer"), while the builder is called Zimmermann (lit. "room man").

The German bible correctly identifies Jesus as a Zimmermann.

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Oh so that's what that Nina Simone song was about

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

room man

German is fucking hilarious if you don't speak it.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

I lost my shit when I heard the most formal, scientific way of saying “sex” in German is “geschlechtsverkehr” or genital traffic.

It took me years to realize that “sexual intercourse” is essentially the same thing.

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