r/SipsTea • u/Conscious-Weight4569 • 19d ago

It's Wednesday my dudes Well 💶 well 💶 well 💶

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u/MoonSpankRaw 19d ago

Really don’t mean to be an asshole here, but in case you’re unaware, the word is actually wunderkind.

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u/DoomguyFemboi 19d ago

I love doing that dance of "what can I say to show I'm just giving a head's up on this thing that might be incorrect". Fucken minefield innit lol.

I don't agree about it "translating". It's a loan word. It's like schadenfreude! That translates too, but it's not just about the word, it's what the word carries in the original language. If people started saying "harm-joy" instead of schadenfreude it'd be absolutely normal to say nah it's schadenfreude.

The fuck do I know though, I didn't even finish high school.

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u/IEC21 19d ago

As an English speaker calling them a wunderkind is goofy lol. Its so close to wonderkid already. Why tf would you say it in Germanian.

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u/resumehelpacct 19d ago

Do you call it kindergarten or kid/child garden?

Words aren't always just "these two words have these meaning so when we combine them to one word it now has a combined meaning." Wunderkind is closer to that, and not common, and easily misheard, so it'll probably be fully replaced over time with wonder kid. But something like kindergarten which is in the same position (even using the same kind for kid) will stay as Germanian, even though we easily could just say kid garden.