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.
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?
Ging ja um die die Deutsch lernen. Das du es als Norddeutscher verstehst verwundert mich nicht. Spreche es selbst aber auch nicht mehr, dass war mal als Kind als ich es noch aktiv gelernt hatte. Aber hatte nie jemanden zum quatschen somit verlernt. Platt war jetzt aber eh nur als Beispiel gedacht.
Ich hab von einigen Initiativen gehört, das in der Schule zu unterrichten aber auch dann vergeht das wahrscheinlich schnell wieder. Finde ich sehr schade, dass das verloren geht.
Also ich hätte es gerne weiter gesprochen bloß keinerlei Freunde die daran Interesse hatten und auch nicht in der Familie. Wäre das anders gewesen wäre ich dem wohl treu geblieben. Naja wie es so halt ist.
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.
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
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.
Mieten sind i.d.R. nicht so kurzfristig, weshalb die bevorzugte Bezeichnung "Geschlechtsteildienstleistungsfachpersonalabstämmling" ist. Ebenso versichert "Abstämmling" im Gegensatz zu "Nachkomme" die leibliche Verwandtschaft.
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.
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.
Not sure where the setting is on Voyager, but there is an instance filter in the profile settings in the browser. It blocks all posts from the instance, but not the users or comments in other communities.
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.
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.
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
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
weird I dont see it if I filter by hot
anyone know if my instance blocks these?
PS: LOL I blocked it for some reason, and didnt realize it blocks the whole instance rather than one community I didnt want to see (prolly ich_iel since I kinda feel like memes are degrading these platforms like reddit or insta with their short video floods)
lets give the instance another try... hope theres a way for me to block only meme sites from a whole instance tho
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.
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.
Go to your profile settings. There should be a list of languages you can select. Depending on the interface you use, Ctrl+Click may do the trick of selecting multiple languages. Then save.
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
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.
Ich bin in Norddeutschland aufgewachsen Platt ist kein Problem, auch wenn ich es nicht spreche.
Ging ja um die die Deutsch lernen. Das du es als Norddeutscher verstehst verwundert mich nicht. Spreche es selbst aber auch nicht mehr, dass war mal als Kind als ich es noch aktiv gelernt hatte. Aber hatte nie jemanden zum quatschen somit verlernt. Platt war jetzt aber eh nur als Beispiel gedacht.
Ich hab von einigen Initiativen gehört, das in der Schule zu unterrichten aber auch dann vergeht das wahrscheinlich schnell wieder. Finde ich sehr schade, dass das verloren geht.
Also ich hätte es gerne weiter gesprochen bloß keinerlei Freunde die daran Interesse hatten und auch nicht in der Familie. Wäre das anders gewesen wäre ich dem wohl treu geblieben. Naja wie es so halt ist.
Platt is schon ne janz feene Sache
Ich habe den Text mal etwas bearbeitet. :)
Geen probleem, het is bijna Nederlands van iemand die het schrijven niet beheerst. En Duitse leenwoorden gebruikt om taalgebrek te compenseren.
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 ^^
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"
Wehe, irgendwer plaudert, Jungs/Mädels/Diverse.
Das ist ser schön!
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….
Are you browsing all?
feddit.org is the main German instance, although not all communities on here are in German.
Hi
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.
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
你应该学学外语吧。
Gesundheit!
谢谢！I just learned to use “应该” from you haha. I wouldn’t mind seeing more random Chinese around here!
多好的主意 !
As a German, completely understandable
You have just made an enemy for life or until I get bored of it.
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.
Richtig so.
Artikuliere auf deutsch, du Sohn einer Fachfrau für Selbstvermarktung
Ich dachte das nennt sich Geschlechtsteilvermietungsfachpersonnachkomme?
Mieten sind i.d.R. nicht so kurzfristig, weshalb die bevorzugte Bezeichnung "Geschlechtsteildienstleistungsfachpersonalabstämmling" ist. Ebenso versichert "Abstämmling" im Gegensatz zu "Nachkomme" die leibliche Verwandtschaft.
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.
Not sure where the setting is on Voyager, but there is an instance filter in the profile settings in the browser. It blocks all posts from the instance, but not the users or comments in other communities.
You could just set your language to English only.
I did the same. Will do until the apps integrate translation.
Will do until I get bored with Lemmy altogether
That's German humour
Your loss.
Come on, loss is so over.
Tja, keine Maimais für dich du doofmann
Google translates this as "no mail for you" is that correct? Does mail here mean any kind of communication?
I do like learning "doofmann" since where I'm from you might call someone a doof if they're stupid.
There is a typo. It's supposed to mean "no memes for you."
Was sind diese "memes"?
Doof is German for dumb, so the meaning seems to transcend languages.
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.
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
I saw this one and was like "oh shit i guess i speak german."
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.
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.
Fun facts about Germany: No fun in Germany. Get back to work!
However, German humour is very special. Me, as a German, I love it.
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.
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
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
Not American but I got a lot of Ich_iel that sprout out in my All
Und
Bubatzgarten oder wasBubatzgärtnerclub*!😭
I always sort by "Hot" and German posts definitely start to dominate after midnight here.
weird I dont see it if I filter by hotanyone know if my instance blocks these?
PS: LOL I blocked it for some reason, and didnt realize it blocks the whole instance rather than one community I didnt want to see (prolly ich_iel since I kinda feel like memes are degrading these platforms like reddit or insta with their short video floods)
lets give the instance another try... hope theres a way for me to block only meme sites from a whole instance tho
This is how my ALL looks like sometimes
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.
I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don't dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.
Das ist aber nicht sehr nett.
😭
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?
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.
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.
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.
I need to not only learn the language but learn the culture so I can understand what I can only assume are fire memes
Deutsch reicht.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/what-is-the-record-for-the-most-languages-spoken-by-one-person
In many cultures, it's common to grow up with 3-5 languages. Learning them as an adult is much harder tho
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.
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?
Not browsing All nearly enough
Go to your profile settings. There should be a list of languages you can select. Depending on the interface you use, Ctrl+Click may do the trick of selecting multiple languages. Then save.
Kind of fed up with this "meme"
The meme format i have no problems with, it's the content in it, yeah we get it, Germans use Lemmy.
Thanks for the meme, much appreciated 😄
jokes on you, I have been learning german before lemmy
Ja
No, we are talk8ng about "Muricans" ... most of them are thinking that these people need to learn English.
Have yet to see that opinion voiced except by you!
Yes, so many right wing Americans on Lemmy