Doubt. 76 letters seems highly inefficient, doesn't sound like German authorities. SchwanGansfütterstörplanungssvenverbotszone is just 35~~~~31 letters.
I love that, not only did he doubt that it would be a 76-letter word, he just casually laid out his own word which (to this non-german speaker) seems like a perfectly plausible interpretation of "no pestering the Sven swan zone." Makes me want to learn German, just so I can litter my own house with improbably specific, single-word German signage. "Do not feed the cat kibble before 8am"
ed: OMG, they've convened a whole committee to optimize the language of this apocryphal sign. Germans are the best.
On my commute to work, the signs go from “cross traffic does not stop” to “traffic from left and right does not stop”. I think about where the line must be, geographically, that they decided people on one side are fundamentally dumber than the people on the other.
Doubt. 76 letters seems highly inefficient, doesn't sound like German authorities.
SchwanGansfütterstörplanungssvenverbotszone is just 35~~~~31 letters.It's entertaining to me that of all the crazy things in this post, the length of the German sign is what finally put your doubt over the edge.
I love that, not only did he doubt that it would be a 76-letter word, he just casually laid out his own word which (to this non-german speaker) seems like a perfectly plausible interpretation of "no pestering the Sven swan zone." Makes me want to learn German, just so I can litter my own house with improbably specific, single-word German signage. "Do not feed the cat kibble before 8am"
ed: OMG, they've convened a whole committee to optimize the language of this apocryphal sign. Germans are the best.
Ordnung muss sein.
Whoever told you German authorities are efficient is now laughing their ass off reading that comment you just made.
Pschscht, pipe down, we have an image to uphold.
Sven is a goose, not a swan, so GansSvenfütterungsverbot would be more accurate, and only 24 letters.
Excuse me, since when is Sven any type of bird at all and not some Vollpfosten of a human?