die Sollbruchstelle
- sollen = to be supposed to, to be intended to
- der Bruch = crack, fracture
- die Stelle = place, position, spot, site, location, point, …
die Sollbruchstelle = predetermined breaking point
I proudly present to you the cause of every linguistic trauma a student of German studies may suffer from:
EIERSCHALENSOLLBRUCHSTELLENVERURSACHER
(= a tool that causes a predetermined breaking point in the shell of an egg)
can you imagine to analyze the morphology of this word??? This was our first example for the morphologic analysis in a lesson called “introductory course of linguistics”
We cried…