Whenever I can figure one out through context I feel like a genius
I wonder how much fun they are having out there that I will probably never get to experience...
2 years ago by jonathanvmv8f to c/memes
Or when you try to read a word aloud and realize it's basically the same as the English word with 50% more consonents.
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.
Haha, I remember trying to tell a German colleague that another colleague was ‘ingverklerten’ because he had red hair, apparently the German word for ginger is not used to represent colour. Almost as popular as our attempt to call someone a ‘glockenende’ when they had been foolish. Sounds like I should look into ich_iel a bit.
Tbh I've kind of forgetten what little French I managed to learn earlier, so this wouldn't work for me either
Ich bin eine kleine auflauf
Geben sie mir senf und sauerkraut zu dem bratwurst 😎
Je vais «fuckin' subscribe» toute de suite
Yep idem
Fr fr these guys look like some top tier shit posters.
I especially liked their sausage starter kit (can't find the meme now)
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.
ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet
We're more into dumb sturgeon puns.
And ramen noodle hair, apparently?
That's mostly one dude named "Instantnudeln" and the noodles were to signify his pov in the michmich.
Oh I missed that! Thank you. Also lol @ "mich mich"
To be fair, there’s a shocking number of made up words… that’s part of the fun?
Technically all words are made up!
Comme by !rance@jlai.lu !
Je pense qu'on est moins nombreux mais on s'y amuse quand même.
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
!france@jlai.lu accepts any language. Especially Pascal.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !france@jlai.lu
Bien sûr!
Merci !
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.
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.
You won cause you can insult the French in their own language.
Not as well as the French can insult me for being American. And in perfect English too, most likely.
Define perfect English. Cause you could always lord over them the fact that they have a shitty government entity that used to gorce them to use what amounts to a government enforced dialect.
Meanwhile if I wrote phonetically it would be mildly ineligible, just like my dialect.
Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.
What even is ich_iel?
It’s better because every post with an English word gets
SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN
as a response
And yet when I try to SPRICH DEUTCH to actual live Germans they give me a pitying look and firmly reply in perfect English
perfect English
Such a thing does not exist in Germany.
The Germans are well known stickers
Not anymore. Currently there is a notion to fight against it.
Grammar and syntax aside, it's basically /me_irl for our German-speaking compadres. Most other languages - French included - generally have a community analogous to most of the popular English-language communities.
German jokes are the wurst.
F&$#
Excuse my french
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.
Imagine writing queue and saying Kö
It is not close to being phonetic. It is however quite consistent which is what you were probably thinking of.
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.
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 :(
Dutch looks like someone got really drunk and tried to combine English and German.
Never too late to learn!
Es ist nie zu spät zu lernen!
Merde...
You can also type it into a translator
You also could use Llava but the results may not be great
Tu peux apprendre les deux ! Or join us on !rance@jlai.lu. Sure we are not as active as !ich_iel@feddit.org but maybe with your help we will improve (^_^)
Tu peux apprendre les deux !
Ne nous emballons pas. On parle probablement d'un étasunien.
Just learn both! But ich_iel has a lot more going on, so prioritise German.
French and German are similar but you just spit on people with different consonants
Just wait until you see !i_itrl@feddit.org
The equivalent of "Zangendeutsch". Take an English sentence, translate each word 1:1 and you'll have Zangendeutsch.
Plier English is the opposite. Take a German sentence and translate each word 1:1, ignoring all grammatical structure.
The most populated region at war times was West Germany. It was governed by France after war.
I have no idea if this is actually the reason but we are incredibly thankful for restoring our country by our french friends - which we harassed and killed beforehand.
They still got up to the job.
I've posted to ich_iel and I think it was funny 🫠
Oh...
You don't miss that much. They are trying to do edgy dank memes in german. The "culture" they represent is quite white and cleasend from migrant humor.
Its the german version of these alt right pepe memes.
Seriously, you missed nothing.
No its obvious that I meant cleasend. 👀
I'm still not sure what exactly you mean but I would love to see immigrant culture on ich_iel and I think most others do too! It's not that the community is hostile or anything and people who don't speak German or things explained when they ask.
How could the community be more inclusive? What would you suggest? Or where do you see active hostility?
They are hostile. There are anti migrant dog whistles all over the sub and a lot more on reddit.
German discrimination is always very "under the hood" and highly sophisticated. You cant be "right and proud" due to the holocaust.
The reality is that the second strongest party has roots to the old NSDAP.
Listen Nazi smooog.
We have 5 Million turks (1st and 2nd gen), 1 Million Syrians and 1 million from all over west Asia and Africa. Out of ~50M adults
w€ aRe sUCH a WhiTE cuLtUrE
Yes thats about 14% of the population ehich are living mostly in cities and usually in blocks with very high percentage of immigrants and very little exchange. I would see it more as living on the same turf than living together... No shared culture emerges from that
Also stop pushing people into categories because you dont like their opinions
Yeah those stupid migrants risked EVERYTHING to come here and live and ghetto's and push weed.
Reality is, they arent allowed to work, and even if they have a job, only german last names get flats in german neighborhoods. And there is actual law which allows racism in that regard. Systematic rasicm is woven with old German racial thinking.
The boxes are fine. You and iel fit well in the neo-nazi box :)
Pepe memes are hilarious though. I suppose that is why you specified alt right pepe memes. It is indeed true, lotta right wingers can't meme
I had a chat with them yesterday using google translate and apparently they think "From the river to the sea" is problematic. Not sure why, but it's probably their government lying to them and saying Palestine is an ethnostate.
I reject the existence of Israel too. Before Israel, Jews and Arabs lived in peace in Palestine. But Britain invaded, created Israel, and cut Palestine in half. From the river to the sea, Arab Palestinians must be free to walk hand in hand with their Jewish siblings. Not imprisoned behind Israeli walls, forced out of their homes, and bombed in the name of stopping a Hamas government that Israel themselves helped gain power. Hamas is Israel's fault, not the fault of the innocent children in Gaza. Israel is responsible for the attacks against Jews in Israel and in the rest of the world. Because Israel has told the world that Jews are evil colonisers and their existence must be paid for in innocent blood. This is a slanderous lie against the Jewish people! Down with Israel! Down with antisemitism! Down with genocide!
From the river to the sea has existed a lot longer than Hamas has in in power. A conservative government can't "claim" a half century old chant.
Australia's national animal is a kangaroo. If I draw a kangaroo on the canvas, does it mean I support the dictatorship of Australia? No, of course not. Because Australia doesn't get to own the idea of kangaroos. And Hamas doesn't get to own this chant. This chant is a lot less tied to the views of a conservative government than the German flag it's drawn on.
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