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[–] [email protected] 127 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I always try to decipher their memes because they look funny.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I can figure one out through context I feel like a genius

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or when you try to read a word aloud and realize it's basically the same as the English word with 50% more consonents.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

That's the meme. They translate English expressions, names and brands into German 1:1, disregarding any standing idioms and available translations. Hard to read even as a German native. Struggling to figure out what to OP meant is like 90% of the fun.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That means you should start /c/moi_dlvv

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Tbh I've kind of forgetten what little French I managed to learn earlier, so this wouldn't work for me either

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat with German sadly. Trying to relearn some though. Ich habe fast alles vorgessen.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (11 children)

Deutsch vergeht, die MaiMais bleiben.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Ich bin eine kleine auflauf

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Parle Français tu Hurensohn!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Je vais «fuckin' subscribe» toute de suite

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fr fr these guys look like some top tier shit posters.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

I speak German and I can confirm, top-tier stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm legit considering getting back to learning German to understand their memes, they look so juicy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I especially liked their sausage starter kit (can't find the meme now)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I studied German in high school but I don't remember any of it. I like to pretend that ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet

We're more into dumb sturgeon puns.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And ramen noodle hair, apparently?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's mostly one dude named "Instantnudeln" and the noodles were to signify his pov in the michmich.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, there’s a shocking number of made up words… that’s part of the fun?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Comme by [email protected] !

Je pense qu'on est moins nombreux mais on s'y amuse quand même.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Bonjour ! Je suis actuellement en train d'apprendre le Français. Suis-je invité ?

And that's a real freaking stretch for what I know. And apparently I can't pronounce most of it correctly

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

C'est le probleme. Je vois !ich_iel tout le temps, mais !rance pas tellement.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I took French in high school and barely scraped by. My wife took German and went on an exchange program for six weeks after high school and had a terrific time.

Close to 30 years later and I remember a lot of the French but she's forgotten most of the German.

So who's laughing now, huh?

Oh right, you got to have those six weeks in Germany. Merde.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You won cause you can insult the French in their own language. Your wife had to be in vague proximity with a 1990s French person.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

German jokes are the wurst.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It’s better because every post with an English word gets

SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN

as a response

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And yet when I try to SPRICH DEUTCH to actual live Germans they give me a pitying look and firmly reply in perfect English

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

perfect English

Such a thing does not exist in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Only because of their exacting standards. Even when I lived in Germany in the 90s the only time I had trouble understanding someone speaking English was when our realtor was trying to be racist but didn't know the English words.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Well yeah, the germans are well known sticklers to rules.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You miss all of it. Learn German instead. Drop the French.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

In case you're learning French to be able to work at a bigger French company - don't. You will be very unhappy. The basic reason is, French companies, even those who think they're "modern", are still run like Louis XIV's is the CEO. Like an extremely rigid, top-down, feudalistic little empire full of screaming bosses and servile employees.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As a German who speaks french: French is probably the easier language since you don't need to declinate words and only really use 3 forms for time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Yes but at the same time german writing system is almost phonetic while french have many way to write one sound.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine writing queue and saying Kö

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I studied German in high school and then as an adult I traveled to India and studied Malayalam, the language of the southern-most state of Kerala. I was surprised at how similar Malayalam was to German (in terms of grammatical structure, not vocabulary) and learned that it's because of Hermann Gundert, a 19th Century German missionary who learned Malayalam (and a bunch of other Indian languages) and published its first formal grammar, more-or-less imposing German's grammatical structure onto it.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For me it’s Dutch. The Dutch own late night Lemmy for me and I want to know what I’m missing.

I’ve picked up on Overleden though :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dutch looks like someone got really drunk and tried to combine English and German.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

~~Never too late to learn!~~

Es ist nie zu spät zu lernen!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pro tip, you can use Google lens to translate (if you're like me and don't care as much about my privacy/have an android phone).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Tu peux apprendre les deux ! Or join us on [email protected]. Sure we are not as active as [email protected] but maybe with your help we will improve (^_^)

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