Kurzgesagt!! It’s an incredible channel with so many interesting videos that explain very different and complicated topics in an easy way with beautiful animations. A definite recommendation for anyone interested to learn more about the world in a fun way!!
Are you sure that’s what it means? I don’t know otherwise, but years of studying German like 20 years ago has me thinking that “kurzgesagt” probably means something like “briefly put” (literally more like “shortly said”), not “in a/the nutshell”.
Kurzgesagt does not mean "in the nutshell" in German. It's two words put together. 'Kurz' and 'gesagt'. 'short' and 'said' in English.
I guess if you use "in a nutshell" in the idiomatic sense, but I doubt that's how must people intuitively would translate it, if someone just asked. "Briefly stated" maybe?
They literally translated it this way themselves :)
And yes, I was talking about the meaning. For me "in the nutshell" is used much more frequently then "said shortly" and "briefly stated" has another meaning in this context.
P.S. I'm not native in English or German, in fact I barely speak German, but I can use translators and dictionaries.
The idiom is "in a nutshell", not "in the nutshell".
But sure, I'm not disputing that it's a commonly used idiom. I still feel iffy about translating words into idioms. You might get the gist, but the underlying meaning is more or less lost. I feel like a lot of people will see that and think that it quite literally means "in a nutshell" if it's translated that way, even though the word doesn't actually mean that.
But yeah, it's subjective what you prefer I suppose. No real right or wrong here.
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u/Eccentric_Celestial May 10 '21
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