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Buherfly

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Ancient meme. Handle with caution

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Plus don’t pronounce ‘caution’ so ruff.

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A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It’s not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.

A very beautiful word.

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Ok but Schmetterling doesn’t even sound worse. Just picture it in a not angry German accent

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Well, “schmettern” (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. “Schmetterling” comes from the old Slavic “Schmetten”, meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from “schmettern”, which is a word still in use.

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The “schmett” makes me think of the mess that’s left if you squish one.

EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the “schmett” part means “cream,” which is similar to the “butter” part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish “schmir.”

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If anything it’s a good exemple of a nice German word

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There’s too many consonants

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But only the “TT” sound harsh, which is the same as butterfly, which I’d argue sounds harsher overall.

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Good point. They even have the same amount of number of syllables.

Also, Butterfly sounds too much like Butt-fly

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蝶々 ちょうちょう chouchou in japanese (although technically the first chou means the same thing; I’m not sure if there is a real difference)

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