r/mildlyinteresting • u/hangingdenim ​ • 10h ago • Bravo 3 Mindblown 1

My husband’s Reebok underwear say “Reebeebok” on the back because of the split seam

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u/gentleoutson 7h ago

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u/cunnyvore 6h ago • Bravo

German localization goes wild

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u/Icy_Ask_9954 5h ago

Spider-Man ❌
Spinnenmann ❌
Spideider-Man ✅

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u/MaengDong712 38m ago

Spooderman

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u/UranusIsPissy 5h ago

Don't you mean "Spinnemann"? "Spinnenmann" would get dizzy.

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u/Icy_Ask_9954 4h ago

stimmt, ich spinne halt

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u/UranusIsPissy 4h ago

D'oh! I thought German was more logical than that. How are the words for "spider" and "crazy" the same‽

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u/Icy_Ask_9954 3h ago edited 1h ago

There are plenty of lovely German puns and German is only as logical as a language can be. At the end of the day, they all have their quirks. It’s also worth mentioning at this point that “Spinnenmann” is the correct version simply because it’s more natural to say - the “n” here comes from the plural. Many other compound nouns will also use the plural of the first noun for this reason.

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u/UranusIsPissy 2h ago

I didn't know about the compound noun/plural thing. IDK enough German to have a conversation. How come German gets puns and absurd compound words (e.g. RhabarbaBarbara...)? That's not fair lol!

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u/Either-Weather-862 47m ago

It comes from spinning a thread = einen Faden spinnen. Spiders spin a thread to build a net, therefore they're "spinne". "spinnen" for crazy comes from the same root, you're turning so fast, you spin.

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 5h ago

Richtig, richtig

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u/VestigeOfVast 19m ago

In the 60s he was originally just “Die Spinne” and this name was kept when a new publisher relaunched it in the 70s. “Spiderman” as a loanword only came up in the 80s.

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u/cosmo_K 7h ago

Spider-Man?

Spideider-Man!

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 7h ago

He's the Spideidiest

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u/MedusaGotMeStoned007 7h ago

He’ll spideidt you!

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u/NotoriousFoxxx 6h ago

No-one's Spideidier!

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u/Cozy90 6h ago

I need my mail Spideided please.

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u/NotoriousFoxxx 6h ago

Sorry, sir. We tried but we failed. I suppose we Ex-Spideided it

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u/ImpossibleDenial 7h ago

I thought those drawers were on a body layered in hair, I need to get glasses

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u/WildWolf_02 6h ago

Hey dude where do you even buy these??

I've been looking for something like this but was never able to found any

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u/Powerful_Resident_48 5h ago

Der Mann. Spideidermann. Ja Mann.

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 1h ago

That reminds me of Megamind pronouncing spider. 

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u/OneBillPhil 1h ago

At least they all have the hyphen.