minus-squarecosmoscoffee@feddit.orgtoBats@lemmy.world•Us in another universe by lorazombielinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoThe German name for “bat” is “Fledermaus”, a compound word consisting of “Fleder” (a cognate of “flattern” = “to flap”) and “Maus” = “mouse”, so we Germans basically call a bat a flappy mouse :D linkfedilink
minus-squarecosmoscoffee@feddit.orgtoAccidental Renaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Breaking BreadlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoI recently learned about the concept of chiaroscuro and I can absolutely see it here linkfedilink
The German name for “bat” is “Fledermaus”, a compound word consisting of “Fleder” (a cognate of “flattern” = “to flap”) and “Maus” = “mouse”, so we Germans basically call a bat a flappy mouse :D