Schluse?

Hi everyone,

tell me—have any of you come across the word “Schluse” before? The other day I saw it listed under a piece of clothing in a catalog and thought it was a typo. But when I Googled it, I found out that the word actually exists—it’s a combination of “shirt” and “blouse.”

Do you guys come across weird new words like that too, where you just shake your head and think, “What on earth is this?”

Best wishes and have a nice afternoon.
Ina

I say it over and over again :-) The world is crazy, and that’s putting it mildly :-)
Only people who think gender-neutral language is a good idea would come up with a word like that—crazy, crazy, crazy

Best wishes, Inge

Oh, there are quite a few, like
“shacket” (a combination of “shirt” and “jacket”),
“coatigan” (a combination of “coat” and “cardigan”),
“jeggings” (a combination of “jeans” and “leggings”),
and probably plenty more 😉

Aren’t “Schlusen” prison guards? 🤣
Nah, I’m not really on board with this new mangling of the language either. And a gender asterisk doesn’t change anything when it comes to respect for others.

Let’s make up some of our own:

snipping & cooking: “schlochen” or “knippeln”

crocheting & watching TV: “gläkeln” or “hotzen”

You have great ideas!

Yes, more and more “newly combined” words are creeping into our everyday lives that aren’t in any Duden dictionary yet. You can only shake your head and laugh.

Yes, in fact, I also thought “Schluse” was a derogatory term from prison—and boom, today it turns out to be a blouse with a shirt-like style. Nothing stays the same.

Just like sweatpants used to be baggy pants for everyday wear—and today they’re paraded stylishly down runways around the world. Just like “gym shoes,” which used to be worn only for gym class. Today they’re sneakers, and people collect them and hype them up. Back then, people would have said, “Put on something decent.” Today, sneakers are the norm.

The other day at the train station while waiting for the subway, there were a lot of people waiting in front of me. I’d sat down on the bench because it might take a while (yet another delay due to a signal malfunction). So I was at just the right height to study the people in front of me. Almost everyone was wearing sneakers. Only three were wearing something else: a woman in heels, an older man in lace-ups, and a teenager in flip-flops.

Okay, enough chit-chat. The sun is shining outside and calling my name.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
Best wishes, Ina

I loooove sneakers and organic flip-flops—nothing else will touch my feet. And ever since the pandemic, I’ve been Team Sweatpants; ever since then, I’ve found all other pants to be too tight.

Hey guys,

the things people come up with. When I saw “Schluse,” I also thought of female prison guards at first.
But we don’t really need this kind of reinvention of certain words.
Except for the word “Sträkeln”—a combination of “Stricken” (knitting) and “Häkeln” (crocheting)—which I read about somewhere (at the shop formerly known as eliZZZa)—that’s something you can actually get used to.
But can’t we just leave all the words the way we learned them in school? There are already enough other problems. But it certainly made me smile. Oh well.

The sun is shining—off to the balcony—because tomorrow means getting up early again.

Love, Andrea

Sometimes, when I’m texting my son on WhatsApp, there are words where I just don’t know—did he typo that, or is that how it’s supposed to be? 😂 And sometimes he even includes the translation right there....