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.
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich hoffe du triffst nie auf Zangendeutsch, da weiß selbst ich nicht mehr, was dort eigentlich gesagt wird.
Zangendeutsch ist v.a. auf ich_iel sehr weit verbreitet, dem Hauptinkubator deutschsprachiger Memes auf Lemmy.
*Maimais auf Lassmich
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.
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Yup, same, I'm enjoying learning German this way now
Und ich lerne Englisch vor allem durch eure Michmichs ^^
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.
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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.
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I blocked all the German instances because I couldn't understand them anyway.
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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.
Get good and learn a little German you silly American
I don't have time energy or fucks to give when it comes to that sorry, it's nothing against German I took German in highschool but I'm not trying to do that just so I can doomscroll in another language
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Nimm es nicht persönlich, dass alle Deutschen hier im Faden dich beleidigen oder einfach anfangen, Deutsch zu schreiben, obwohl du Angelsachse bist. Es ist eher eine Art Maimai, auch wenn du natürlich Deutsch lernen solltest und diese Kommentarsektion nun Eigentum der BRD ist.
Sadly I'm not allowed to speak English since it's forbidden by the German-ich_iel-internet-law, also known as Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn.
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Artikuliere auf deutsch, du Sohn einer Fachfrau für Selbstvermarktung
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You're missing out on the English communities on the German instances then.
Maybe but I think I'll be ok not wading through hundreds of posts I can't understand, I wouldn't expect someone who doesn't understand English to do it with American posts.
If that's how someone else wants to spend their time more power to them, I do not have time for that unfortunately.
You can just block German communities.
Ah I see there has been a miscommunication. I do block communities not entire instances I'm not actually aware of a way to block the whole thing I tried to do it to the furries but I didn't see a way so I had to do it one by one, I'm not a Lemmy pro I just use Voyager and scroll it like it's reddit since it's better.
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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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Also non-Americans trying to browse Lemmy during work...
I really wish I could understand German humour
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I use Google translate to bridge the language barrier and I'm happy to do so. Some of their memes are top class.
Habibi digga bekommst Nutriscore A von mir
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.
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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.
They have a great sense of humor. It's just that when it's time to be serious (at work, meeting a stranger, out in public), they act serious.
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Ja genau.
I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.
A lot is inside jokes and playfully bad translations from English. Don't know if that makes it easier or more difficult
It’s probably half an indictment of Duolingo effectiveness and half an indictment of my retention skills.
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As a german Ive seen this meme alot now, but Im completly confused what your experience is actually like.
besides the german c/communities like c/dach and c/deuschland I dont see where youre seeing german everywhere and these dont show in the popular feeds for me
EDIT: As described below, I blocked the whole instance (instead of only the meme community) by accident LOL
I always sort by "Hot" and German posts definitely start to dominate after midnight here.
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I still can't figure out what "ich eil" means or even what language it is
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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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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.
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