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by mahathu 1053 days ago
> where “Kunst” is artist and “Kunststoff” is plastic, and in Middle Low German “kunst” is knowledge and ability.

Kunst means art, and an artist is a "Künstler" in German. (and Intelligenz is grammatically female, so there is no trailing s in "künstlich" in "künstliche Intelligenz". Its a difficult language.

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Danke.

I was very surprised when I first found out about the local phrase, "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache".