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Today I learned that there's a female version of the term "bromance" and it's equally shit (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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It only works if you say the O wrong! Neither "woman" nor "women" are said like that.

Oh, and all the other stuff about implying any strong & healthy friendship must have some underlying homoeroticism bullshit.

A Screenshot of a wikipedia article for the term "Womance"

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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I know a woman who uses the phrase “breast friends”.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In Germany, older ppl sometimes use the term "Busenfreunde"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Germans really got a word for everything

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    LOL, not exactly. It's just that you can combine as many nouns as you want. The fact that you can turn pretty much any verb into a noun (Substantivierung) doesn't help with complexity XD

    EDIT: e.g. German doesn't have specific words for vehicle or plane, it's just "stuff that drives" (Fahrzeug) or "stuff that flies" (Flugzeug) it's rly fun and allows for a lot of nuance, but can be rly confusing at times (even to native speakers)

    Or the fact that "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" is a perfectly valid noun LMAO

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    • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It only works if you say the O wrong!

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    People all over the world have close heterosexual relationships, often with a lot of physicality involved. These terms are entirely unnecessary... but I know why they were made, lol.

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