GESCHWINDIGKEITSBEGRENZUNG

This post was written 10 years ago.
Mon, 15 Dec 2014

Whoa, whoa, whoa stop right there. That is one helluva crazy word for "speed limit". Well BEGRENZUNG is "limit" and GESCHWINDIGKEIT " is speed. Don't ask me why. But, hey, why use just 10 letters when 26 will do? Who wants three syllables when seven is even better?



Katja thinks GESCHWIND is kind of like "swift" in English. But she's only trying to be polite for what is a truly daft word. I mean you'd think you'd want something short and punchy if you were a copper booking a driver for going too fast.

No, we're not having this word. It's long, it's ugly, it's got too many nasty consonants. It's going in to Room 101. Goodbye GESCHWINDIGKEITSBEGRENZUNG



tags: daft, Room 101
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