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What is the longest word in your language, and what does it mean in English? (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by Diddlydee@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I love the German word verbesserungsbedürftig, meaning in need of improvement. I'm not German, but thought this was a cracking word.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, but the point is no one uses that word outside this very specific meme. Well ok, there was also incredibly bad Winnie the Pooh parody 25 years ago which used it as a part of even longer word, but i don't think that counts.