On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 06:18:47 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 9:00:45 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>> Bruce wrote:
>> > "Selbstverständlich" isn't that
>> > different from "self-explanatory".
>> It's quite a bit different to me.
>
>Duh. Any foreign language is gibberish to a non-speaker of it.
>
>In number of syllables, the German term is shorter than the
>English term. With a little practice, it's not difficult to
>separate those eye-watering compound words into their
>simple constituents.
>
>Selbst-verständlich
>Riesen-urlaubs-krokodil
>
>Now, the idiomatic meaning of "giant vacation crocodile", which
>is the way Google translates it, is a bit of a puzzle.

Lol, to me as well.