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Kind of fed up with this "meme"
jokes on you, I have been learning german before lemmy
Swede here dealing with the same realization. Although continental Scandinavian is a Germanic language and share the same ancestry as German, eg proto-Germanic, and thereby shares a lot of similarities, it’s not mutually intelligible. I can how ever often times pick out some words and with some bending and shuffling around get a gist of what’s going on. But only if it’s presented in a meme format.
Jag älskar köttbullar
Wer macht das nicht! Sie bestehen schließlich aus den beiden magischen Zutaten Fleisch und Ball.
Ja genau.
I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.
I took German in high school, and while I understand maybe 60% of the words, 90% of the (what I assume to be critical) context is lost on me
with how the german community is radically translating everything english directly into german, i too tend to need some time figuring out what the heck they mean. lemmy is translated as „let me“ but in one word, same for meme being translated as „me me“. so, oftentimes, i need to translate half the words of a sentence directly into english without taking context into consideration, then try to put them together and reread, if that makes any sense…
Welcome to Zangendeutsch, where we (mostly) take words and translate them literally. Works the other way as well btw, I often see stuff like that in those "funny german words" memes. Birth control pill = Antibabypille = Antibabypill
Tangled cables = Kabelsalat = Cablesalad
(excess weight gained due to sadness) = Kummerspeck = Griefbacon
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I blocked all the German instances because I couldn't understand them anyway.
Edit:
Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn't realize me seeing posts I can't comprehend was so important to these goofballs.
Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn't realize me seeing posts I can't comprehend was so important to these goofballs.
That's German humour
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I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don't dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.
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How many languages can a human brain hold?
I have 3 spoken and 2 written languages and its a bit too much, I'm not trying to have 200 languages, that stupid green owl can go away.
Deutsch reicht.
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I need to not only learn the language but learn the culture so I can understand what I can only assume are fire memes
I've had to block so many German Lemmy's. It's frustrating because I can tell it's a good article and I believe European news more than US news now.
I never see any German posts, what am I doing wrong?
Not browsing All nearly enough
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this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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