In German, there's another - not as vulgar, but a personal attack. This is not a comment on a thing or action, but a reply to a story or something someone has said.
"Where's the bus?"
The storyteller might be confused and ask: "which bus?"
Ah thanks, I googled it quickly and it gave me both (as titles on webpages, not like in a dictionary). But with the number of spelling mistakes on shopping sites, I shouldn't have trusted the titles alone :)
The other commenters have already explained it diligently, but I wanted to hop on for something related.
As a German speaker, it actually irritates me a little, that English doesn't agglutinate. Let's take the word "gum ball machine".
Which is it? It's a machine. So are "gum" and "ball" descriptors of "machine"? Well no, they're all nouns. But they're not all subjects or objects of a sentence. They're one subject together. But they're not written together.
If I had a red gum ball machine, is it a red machine made out of gum that produces balls? Ok, it can also be spelt gumball machine. But that's still multiple words per concept.
I like my nouns to be one word if it's one thing and one subject.
A déodorant that's made from more organic ingredients.
For example Cocos oil and soda. In my experience it has been streets ahead of a commercial déodorant. It allows me to sweat but eliminates all smell, even when applying after I've already started to sweat.
I.e. Florida, the third most populous US state (21M), is about half the size of the whole of Germany.
But Germany's most populous state (North Rhine - Westphalia / NRW) has a pop of 18M.
It's waaaaay smaller, but the n of inhabitants is comparable.
To the point: I don't think , it's necessary to know the names of foreign states. But it's good to know roughly what's going on in the world. It is no secret, that US Americans are exceptionally caught in their own bubble.
You use that term rather lightly. Idk, if I think "historically" my mind goes further back than 120 years. At least to the Spanish Habsburgs' occupation, maybe even Burgundian era, Lotharingia, the Franks or the Belgae tribes.
It is technically history, but that's like saying: "Historically, I nourish myself with broccoli pizza" just because I had some yesterday.
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Even for people, who are not Leninist/Stalinist or similar, it is noticeable.
From my perspective (being not from the US) us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy.