Wednesday, November 19, 2008

German words

Today, we got a letter from the Canton of Zug (a canton is the Swiss version of a state, I suppose). The letter contains the following word: "Krankenversicherungspflicht." I kid you not. That's a real German word. I believe it means something like "proof of insurance." German loves nothing more than a nice, juicy compound word. I'll bet you can't think of a lot of words in English words that are 27 letters that you could casually roll off of your tongue at your next party.

1 comment:

Gretchen said...

I made it through the first 3 syllables, then it all just came out 'flooof'!