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minus-squareblackris@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 days agoAre you joking or do you really think, the second one is a word used in german? I cannot tell. It is not.
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up14·8 days agoIt’s a reference to the saying “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” The second word is a (probably poorly, I hardly know any German) made-up compound word for “horse grenades”, so it’s handshoes and horse grenades instead
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Are you joking or do you really think, the second one is a word used in german? I cannot tell. It is not.
It’s a reference to the saying “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades”
The second word is a (probably poorly, I hardly know any German) made-up compound word for “horse grenades”, so it’s handshoes and horse grenades instead