German is a silly language

It's my cake day, have some words from my native langague that sound silly when I translate them into English literally.

Handschuhe. Now that's still weird because shoe go on your feet, but there is logic here.

Regenschirm. It schirms you from the Regen. Works.

Zahnfleisch. The flesh around your teeth.

"Meat" is flesh you can eat, if I understand correctly. You see, we don't have different words for those. "Fleisch" means both "flesh" and "meat".
This pattern will come up more.

Nacktschnecke. Now that is pretty non-bullshit straightforward. It's a snail, it's just missing it's house. No need to come up with a new name.

Let's do more animals.

Faultier. It's a Tier and it is faul.

Stinktier. Again, we took the most pevalent attribute of the animal and called it a *that* animal.

Schildkröte. Could also go for "Armored Toad", if we're being generous.

We don't have different words for turtle and tortoise either, we distinguish by adding their place of dwelling: "Landschildkröte" and "Meeresschildkröte". Land shield toad and sea shield toad.

Glühbirne. Do you see the pear shape?

Technically, a LED light bulb is not a glühbirne, as it doesn't have a Glühdraht, but we still call them that if they're pear shaped.

Brustwarze. The first image on Wikipedia is a female nipple and I had to go hunt fuirther for a male one. Because, as you know, female nipples are pure evil and make the internet explode and bring about the end of days.

Schlagzeug. "Zeug" as a suffix means "Thing(s) that..." As in Flugzeug (Airplane), Zaumzeug (Bridle) or Fahrzeug (Vehicle). But I wanted to include it only once.

Honorary mention, @kirbyvictorious
You gave me this idea. =)

Cat tax. Midna insists: She is baby. The human baby will have to find a different stroller.

Woohooo, Frontpage :D

That's it, post's over, everyone. Lid closed, monkey dead.