Yeah, English is pretty quirky. I think a lot of the time there isn't an exact match because in English, you use two seperate words, whereas in German, you use two words but make them into one! Which I personally love.
Most of the time, we refer to food with its foreign name. Kummerspeck: Do you really need one? I think there is one for fremdschämen. What it is escapes me. As for a Rabenmutter... we just call her a bad mother. :p:

Noo "Du hast" means "You have"
In the song it's:
"Du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt"
which means:
"You have asked me, and I didn't say anything"

I know where the confusion comes from.
An untrained ear could hear the words "Du hasst mich",
which means "You hate me"

Ok then, let's see...
THIS from a people who can't decide if the sea is male, female or neither! :rofl: Ain't that "shameful joy"? Also known as "being a prick"
This you need to explain. What is torte (tart?) and kuche? We have hundreds of different cakes...

No. We call that "eating when sad"
Embarassment?

Crack whore? ;)
and you don't even have a word for Yeah we do: lucky bastards and unlucky bastards
It's called trying to help, or digging a deeper hole.See, in English we use more than one word to describe a thing, action or person, so we may not have one word as you do like schawdenwotsit but we call it two things. That's how English mostly works.

And we call her a ravenmother. BAM! poetic language! BaBAM!

nope. you don't have a word for fremdschämen, sadly.
Look for yourself:
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edit: Leider konnten wir zu Ihrem Suchbegriff fremdschämen keine Übersetzung finden.

this means: "Unfortunately we couldn't find a translation to the word fremdschämen"

Almost the very same: earworm

Darn. We all know the feeling, though!

yeah, because we're poetic. which rules the seven seas!

Yeah, that's shameful joy. But sadly, shameful joy is 2 words, instead of one...

no no, a tart is an Obstkuchen. Which is a fruitcake...nono, we make a difference, between ...ok a "Torte" is based on cream, and a "Kuchen" is more solid and based on flour.


Again..sadly, you need 3 words, we need one.

No, because you can be embarassed for what you have done as well.
fremdschämen implicates, that another one is embarassing for you.

Well...doesn't really implicate crack, lol


Again...two words.

hmm..ya kinda, still it's 4 words.
But "verschlimmbessern" (literally "to badbetter") implicates that you want to do good, but end up makin it worse.

I love your fake German :D

Oh, I thought earworm means the animal "Ohrwurm" :/

Also what does schwuler-ah mean

"schwul" means "gay",
"ein Schwuler" is "a gay",
but it's not insulting.
If you want to be insulting,
then it's "eine Schwuchtel"


that... "-" thingy does not exist in german.
there are no words linked by a "-"
it's called a "Gedankenstrich" (mind-dash),
which means it's only used to make your sentences look cooler :P