>>>>I don't speak German, other than my favorite German word: ausfahrt
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>>>I like that one.. another great one ... the German word for a car's exhaust system - auspuff.
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>>My favorite is StopemFromFlopen, the German word for basiere <g>
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>My favorite German term is the translation for "he who can't spell" <s>
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>Talk about thread drift....

Try "basic instinct". There was a time this was a common task to use this word to test hyphenation. The sylables are the first two letters and the rest. Bad was the first four and the rest. Number one valid, but different meaning. http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/ for translation.