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Re:Chick Corea has died by busfahrer on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:22AM (#26113327)
As a German it's amusing to me that a translation was given for Kummerspeck, but not for Wanderlust.
Re:Chick Corea has died by wheels on Friday February 12, 2021 @08:30AM (#26113396)
Wanderlust is commonly used as a loanword in English.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanderlust

Re:Chick Corea has died by jgwil2 on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:52AM (#26114958)
Both wander and lust are also English words, albeit with slightly different shades of meaning, so it should be comprehensible to a non-German speaker who has never encountered it before, whereas Kummerspeck would not be.
Re:Chick Corea has died by martyvis on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:18PM (#26118657)
Coincidentally I saw a tweet yesterday which said that albeit looks like a German word but isn't
Re:Chick Corea has died by MockObject on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:05AM (#26113736)
As an American it's amusing to me that Wanderlust means the same in German, since both words are English as well.
Re:Chick Corea has died by cycomanic on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#26115021)
To another German it's amusing that the individual words exist in German and English, but don't quite mean the same things in each language, i.e. are not really translations of each other.