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![]() Maybe the fellow below is a Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. What a great word...!!! https://images.app.goo.gl/935voWCUmz2AjYKa9 https://www.dw.com/en/bezirksschorns...ster/a-6618490 Learn a funny, quirky German word each week with DW's Word of the Week feature. This week: Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. "Apart from being a particularly intimidating word for non-German eyes, "Bezirkschornsteinfegermeister" is a professional title familiar to every homeowner and tenant in Germany. All German residences are required by law to get a yearly visit from the "district chimneysweep master," who runs safety checks on fireplaces, gas lines and heating units. Chimneysweeps have deeply embedded themselves in German culture and law - not only because Germans have strong notions about safety and cleanliness, but also because chimneysweeps have long been believed to carry good luck. Soot-covered men with top hats and ladders are a common image on New Year's cards in Germany, and touching a chimneysweep once a year is said to bring good fortune - and prevent incidents of fatal gas poisoning..." </> |
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On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4:06:02 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
> Maybe the fellow below is a Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. What a great word...!!! > > https://images.app.goo.gl/935voWCUmz2AjYKa9 > > > > https://www.dw.com/en/bezirksschorns...ster/a-6618490 > > Learn a funny, quirky German word each week with DW's Word of the Week feature. This week: Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. > > "Apart from being a particularly intimidating word for non-German eyes, "Bezirkschornsteinfegermeister" is a professional title familiar to every homeowner and tenant in Germany. All German residences are required by law to get a yearly visit from the "district chimneysweep master," who runs safety checks on fireplaces, gas lines and heating units. Chimneysweeps have deeply embedded themselves in German culture and law - not only because Germans have strong notions about safety and cleanliness, but also because chimneysweeps have long been believed to carry good luck. Soot-covered men with top hats and ladders are a common image on New Year's cards in Germany, and touching a chimneysweep once a year is said to bring good fortune - and prevent incidents of fatal gas poisoning..." > > </> Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben bertragungsgesetz (in german translation, its the law for the distribution of tasks related to the oversight of the labelling of beef) ==================================== Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischeti... ww.telegraph.co.uk - June 3, 2013 -- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...scheti....html |
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On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 15:05:45 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
> wrote: >On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 4:06:02 PM UTC-5, GM wrote: >> Maybe the fellow below is a Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. What a great word...!!! >> >> https://images.app.goo.gl/935voWCUmz2AjYKa9 >> >> >> >> https://www.dw.com/en/bezirksschorns...ster/a-6618490 >> >> Learn a funny, quirky German word each week with DW's Word of the Week feature. This week: Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister. >> >> "Apart from being a particularly intimidating word for non-German eyes, "Bezirkschornsteinfegermeister" is a professional title familiar to every homeowner and tenant in Germany. All German residences are required by law to get a yearly visit from the "district chimneysweep master," who runs safety checks on fireplaces, gas lines and heating units. Chimneysweeps have deeply embedded themselves in German culture and law - not only because Germans have strong notions about safety and cleanliness, but also because chimneysweeps have long been believed to carry good luck. Soot-covered men with top hats and ladders are a common image on New Year's cards in Germany, and touching a chimneysweep once a year is said to bring good fortune - and prevent incidents of fatal gas poisoning..." >> >> </> > >Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben übertragungsgesetz > > (in german translation, its the law for the distribution of tasks related to the oversight of the labelling of beef) >==================================== > >Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischeti... >ww.telegraph.co.uk - June 3, 2013 >-- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...scheti....html beef labelling monitoring delegation law or if, like German, you don't like spaces between your nouns: beeflabellingmonitoringdelegationlaw |
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