# What would communication look like we used all the same nouns for; nudity, Marihiunna, and the German language? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932 "2022-12-22T00:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/21 "2022-12-22T17:37:24Z")
That Oktoberfest late-night afterparty I went to that one time would be confusing to describe. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/22 "2022-12-22T18:02:18Z")
> [@glee](#): > > What does ‘bow’ mean in English? > > A gesture? > A weapon? > Part of a ship? Or a decoration for a gift box. Don’t get me started on “bough”, or why it doesn’t rhyme with trough, through or though. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/23 "2022-12-22T18:26:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Google informs me that Spanish folks spell it “marihuana”. If you were old enough, you might remember some American folks spelling it “marihuana” as well. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/24 "2022-12-22T18:29:39Z")
Nobody mention Buffalo. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/25 "2022-12-22T19:30:26Z")
That whole buffalo thing Albany’s me every time. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/26 "2022-12-22T19:34:51Z")
The connection between those two is eerie. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/27 "2022-12-22T19:57:57Z")
[![](http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif) ](http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/28 "2022-12-22T20:02:04Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The connection between those two is eerie. You probably don’t think anybody got that, but I did because I have a superior intellect. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/29 "2022-12-22T22:27:58Z")
Well this is embarrassing; I misspelled marijuana (& made it a proper noun). 🫢 Not sure where German language came from. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/30 "2022-12-22T22:40:03Z")
I’m assuming German language came from your marijuana. At least that’s more plausible than thinking it came from your nakedness. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/31 "2022-12-22T22:45:57Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well this is embarrassing; I misspelled marijuana (& made it a proper noun). 🫢 Not sure where German language came from. Well, I spotted a connection. There used to be a German comedy TV series called “Hausmeister Krause-Ordnung muss sein” (Janitor Krause-Order is a must) with Tom Gerhardt. It was about a janitor in an apartment complex who was a parody of the dumb, bigoted square German. He always used to complain about the hippie commune upstairs who were smoking their “Marihuna”. Maybe you got it from there. Or more probably, you just were stoned. > **[Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausmeister_Krause_%E2%80%93_Ordnung_muss_sein)** > > Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein (English lit.: Janitor Krause - Order is a must) is a German sitcom with Tom Gerhardt in the title role, shown from 1999 through 2010 on Sat.1. > The series parodies typical German "squareness". Half-day caretaker Dieter Krause is the embodiment of the German "square"; he is pernickety, blindly follows order, denounces others, is nosy, consistently puts his own interests above all else, acts subservient to his superiors and is brutish and unjust to those he d... ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/32 "2022-12-23T01:57:15Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > When you said “the proper version,” I immediately thought, well we’ll just have to see about that. But you’re correct; that IS the proper version! 🙂 Although I love [Elis, solo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI1b9RK10JI), even more. Agreed. (Tangents follow!) When I think of “As Águas de Março”, I don’t think of Tom Jobim, the author. The first thing that comes to mind is the calming voice of Elis Regina. I was saddened when I found that she was yet one more artist who died from a drug overdose, at 36. I have a long studio cut of some of the banter between Elis and Tom during the session I posted above. They are laughing and having a great time. After one perfect take they messed up that last whistled note and burst out laughing. What cool chemistry! ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/33 "2022-12-23T02:06:03Z")
There were a bunch of people on the beach smoking german. But the craziest thing was that they were completely german! Not a stitch on, any of them. I tried to ask them whether this was some kind of germanity club whose members were into smoking german or whether it was a german-smoking club who just like to hang out completely german. But they didn’t understand me. I think they spoke only German. I wanted to stay longer because some of them were really attractive and seeing them completely german was exciting. But the german smoke stank like skunks and I couldn’t stand it. So I left. Then one of the cute german Germans followed me up the beach and it turned out she did speak English. She said she didn’t like the smell of german smoke either but she really wanted to see me german. All in all it was a good day. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/34 "2022-12-23T02:39:55Z")
Cool story, bro, but you should translate it into Marihiunna. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/35 "2022-12-23T02:46:22Z")
Now if we could just integrate Musk and his pronouns prosecute and Fauxci into this soliloquy we could have a real head trip of drug-powered bafflement. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/36 "2022-12-23T06:24:46Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > [http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif](http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc072.gif) This has already made it into the technical world. Some time ago, even: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yL_-1d9OSdk/hqdefault.jpg "Chicken chicken chicken") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/37 "2022-12-23T19:22:50Z")
Fuck, die verdammten Ficker werden verdammt noch mal nicht ficken! 🇩🇪 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/38 "2022-12-23T19:27:47Z")
Ach du lieber, Augustin! ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/39 "2022-12-25T18:15:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The connection between those two is eerie. Raucous applause - this is the best joke in this thread. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m assuming German language came from your marijuana. At least that’s more plausible than thinking it came from your nakedness. And this is the wurst. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932/40 "2022-12-25T20:20:10Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Nobody mention Buffalo. But then where will we find gals? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-communication-look-like-we-used-all-the-same-nouns-for-nudity-marihiunna-and-the-german-language/976932.md?page=1)