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minus-square@blackris@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink5•edit-212 days agoAre you joking or do you really think, the second one is a word used in german? I cannot tell. It is not.
minus-square@brown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink16•12 days agoIt’s a reference to the saying “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” The second word is a (probably poorly, I hardly know any German) made-up compound word for “horse grenades”, so it’s handshoes and horse grenades instead
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Handschuhe und Pferdegranaten
Are you joking or do you really think, the second one is a word used in german? I cannot tell. It is not.
It’s a reference to the saying “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades”
The second word is a (probably poorly, I hardly know any German) made-up compound word for “horse grenades”, so it’s handshoes and horse grenades instead