I saw this one and was like “oh shit i guess i speak german.”
At first it annoyed me slightly but I’ve noticed that I can understand most of them without having to use a translator, so now it’s just free language practice. And deciphering memes is decidedly more fun than taking a course.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich hoffe du triffst nie auf Zangendeutsch, da weiß selbst ich nicht mehr, was dort eigentlich gesagt wird.
This is how I do it
So now you know what Zangendeutsch is
Tangendeutsch heff ik ja noch nie höört aver dat geiht ja noch. Dat klingt hollt meist bloot temlich swacksinnig. Wat seggt denn eerst bi zB Plattdeutsch.
Edit: Zangendeutsch habe ich ja noch nie gehört, aber das geht ja noch. Das klingt halt meist bloß ziemlich schwachsinnig. Was sagst dann erst bei zB Plattdeutsch.
I’ve never heard Zangendeutsch before, but that’s still possible. It just usually sounds pretty stupid. What about Low German(Plattdeutsch), for example?
Nimm beim Reden den Fisch aus dem Mund!
Plattdütsch oder Platt, du Kiend vonna Fachvrouw für Selbstvermarktung.
Das war kein NF Platt. Ostfriesland vielleicht?
Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now
Und ich lerne Englisch vor allem durch eure Michmichs ^^
I still can’t figure out what “ich eil” means or even what language it is
Ich iel is a german acronym for “meirl”
Ah, im echten Leben, iel! Finally the quarter fell.
And it’s somehow still an amazing experience despite not knowing a single word
Ich im echten Leben.
They take English and translate it word for word in a very literal fashion. It’s very difficult to understand for regular Germans because you kinda need to know the original English sayings to make sense of it.
Back when this meme format was making the rounds on 4chan, I always saw it as a guy with a really long Fu Manchu moustache and to this day I still can’t unsee it.
That’s how I’ve always seen it too. Your comment just now made me realize that those are his forearms.
You have ruined the Internet and memes for me forever now. I hope you’re happy.
Suffer well, brother.
Wasn’t there even a rage comic about that?
If it helps: “Tisch” is table in German and Feta is a greek cheese. => Feta + Tisch = Fetisch, but actually “Fetisch” has a complete different meaning on its own (eng.:“fetish”) so its a play on words. Thanks for coming to my TED-Talk.
That makes much more sense than “tofu table”
Das ist ser schön!
Wehe, irgendwer plaudert, Jungs/Mädels/Diverse.
I speak spanish and I feel like I’m fouble dipping in the fun. But once I tried diving into a german thread with the help of translators. Boy they were SAVAGE some shit was like “He got another dick surgery probaly wants to suck it himself at this point.” Idk who says german have no sense of humor but man that’s wrong AF.
Also learn everything about Linux so I can get all these Linux memes that keep popping up. And learn to program so I can get all the programmer memes.
Ich habe vier Jahre auf Deutsch gelernt, aber mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht.
Honestly, I couldn’t even remember if Deutsch was feminine, masculine, or neuter… but my pronunciation has always been spot on at least. I should just pick it back up, it’d be mostly vocab grind for me at this point. But I last learned years and years ago… dang, almost 18 years now.
Articles in German make no real sense honestly. Deutsch is neuter, but since it’s mostly an adjective the article is that of the accompanied noun. The German language is female, the German court neuter and the German football field is male (the stadium is neuter though)
I’ve been doing German on Duolingo for over a year and I can get about 20% of the content they post, so I’m pretty happy to have an actual use for the work I put in.
Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.
Still new here. But I haven’t come across any German instances yet….
feddit.org is the main German instance, although not all communities on here are in German.
Hi
Are you browsing all?
Also non-Americans trying to browse Lemmy during work…
I really wish I could understand German humour
German human is no laughing matter.
German idioms are funny. I read a book translated from German into English using ai. And Some of their idioms had me rofl.
jokes on you, I have been learning german before lemmy
Good choice. Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.
As a side benefit, you will also be able to converse with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Robert Terwilliger.
Oh, I didn’t know Kim Jong- un can speak German
He went to school in Switzerland. Maybe that explains the Laibach concert.
I bet he speaks it like the same he doesn’t have to shit.
You guys are aware you can filter by language in the settings of your Lemmy account, right?
That’s like the most useless setting ever because nobody enforces the language while commenting
I wasn’t! Thanks for the clue!
I never see any German posts, what am I doing wrong?
