Deutsche Sachlichkeit

Just ran across this great German word for “snack”: Zwischenverpflegungsangebot. An approximate back translation would perhaps be: “Interim meal offering”.

It perfectly illustrates the “hard literalism” that so often characterizes German terms and is also needlessly complicated. As Maurice Moss would say: “Brilliant!”

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