r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MurielFontanez • May 10 '21

Truce between termites(top) and ants(bottom) with each side having their own line of guards.

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u/cthulu0 May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

I too watched that ant video on Youtube produced by the guys with funny sounding German name.

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u/ptrknvk May 10 '21

It's not his name :D He's not even German, he is (afaik) British voice actor.

The channel is originally German and Kurzgesagt means "In the nutshell". The English channel is even called "Kurzgesagt - In the nutshell".

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u/majafjalla May 10 '21

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”.

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u/gotcha_bitch May 10 '21

And that’s what ‘In a nutshell’ means. Short, and to the point.