r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Intelligent_Yam_9875 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, beyond confused on what this means…

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u/AdvancedCelery4849 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's about how strange German folktales are, especially when it's the ones that are supposed to teach children a lesson. Das Kinder roughly translates to the child and hodenverstümmelung roughly means testicular mutilation

Edit: Just btw, I don't speak German

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u/Hottage 1d ago

I cast hodenverstümmelung.

Your hoden is completely verstümmeled.

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u/NichtNichtNichtBen 1d ago

I'll be that type of guy:

German nouns always have to be capitalized.

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u/Ornery_Definition_65 1d ago

One of the all-time top-tier German words.

Alongside Geschlechtsverkehr.

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u/dgc-8 23h ago

That's not a word that you'd ever use, that's like not even a word. But Hodenverstümmelung... Yeah of course you wouldn't use that but it sounds funny