My folks also do something similar. I'd bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it 'yoyo' or just 'meme'?
That's interesting, considering that the origin of the term "meme" refers to one of two ways people pass down information - culturally (through memes) and genetically (through DNA reproduction.)
Testicles are too busy working on genetic transmission. They don't need to be tasked with memeing as well.
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, ... basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
Might be because of local accent as well, I don't speak a word of spanish but I'd be very surprised if there's no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish "e" sound is most similar to the english sound "ay" as in hay or may but shorter. I've never heard someone make the phoneme "eh" here in colombia.
At 4:10 or so, she says "eme". That's the closest I could find to someone from Colombia saying meme. Eh-meh, not aymay. It's an open E, as in any other Spanish accent.
On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use literal letteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with "michmichs".
i dont know what "blungt" and "hassenpfeffer" are
blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
hassenpfeffer is confusing me more
my head splits it in "hassen"(hate)/"Hasen"(rabbit) and "Pfeffer" (pepper) which does not make any sense
still think you did a good job meyotch ^^
often people new to german say "mein" instead of "meine" and i cant really explain why but in that context its correct
Well enough that I was able to get three or four exchanges into conversations with random Berliners before they caught on that I was making most of it up.
In the train station, they would just walk a way, a bit disgusted.
I would still say I don't understand written German, and I certainly couldn't understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.
Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school
Also dschermän here. I want to get into Spanish because so many countries speak some variation of it, French would also be cool, although I'll never sound as slippery smooth as those mfs.
Native English speaker who’s been trying to learn French formally and informally for years and every time I open my mouth I just feel like I’m taking a chainsaw to the language as a whole.
Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don't like that meme format, this represents us:
My folks also do something similar. I'd bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it 'yoyo' or just 'meme'?
In polish that would be "jaja" when means "balls" (as in testicles) so no polish people don't really do that
That's interesting, considering that the origin of the term "meme" refers to one of two ways people pass down information - culturally (through memes) and genetically (through DNA reproduction.)
Testicles are too busy working on genetic transmission. They don't need to be tasked with memeing as well.
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, ... basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
Ka?
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
Esperanto for Lemmy lingua franca! Err... I mean... Lingua esperanta!
How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.
Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
Watch out ! They're coming for you !
best i can do is not to leave home, thus, no lifestyle changes needed
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
Might be because of local accent as well, I don't speak a word of spanish but I'd be very surprised if there's no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia
Nah, e is the same across most spanish accents. It’s more likely we’re just using different letters for the same sounds as i said in my other comment.
maymay the meme be with you
Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like "maymays", you need to spell it "meimeis")
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish "e" sound is most similar to the english sound "ay" as in hay or may but shorter. I've never heard someone make the phoneme "eh" here in colombia.
My argentine ears disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEekDZixG0
At 4:10 or so, she says "eme". That's the closest I could find to someone from Colombia saying meme. Eh-meh, not aymay. It's an open E, as in any other Spanish accent.
I think we might just be using different orthography to get the same sound. I hear her say ay-may.
Yea, Boiii - source
me me = michmich
ich lol'd
Amazing-ich.
Oh god I'm starting to learn German from these now....
The only word I didn't understand in the top part was "Michmichs"
Mich = me
Michmich = meme, basically Zangendeutsch, a figurative translation of foreign words to German.
Relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichtzen.
I'm extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn't understand half of them
Don't worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
The way I see it:
On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
...skill issue?
I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism
Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we'll just have to "huh" together for a little while longer.
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use
literalletteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with "michmichs".Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
Das memekopf blungt meine hassenpfeffer!
How am I doing?
It makes absolutely zero sense and I love it.
i dont know what "blungt" and "hassenpfeffer" are
blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
hassenpfeffer is confusing me more my head splits it in "hassen"(hate)/"Hasen"(rabbit) and "Pfeffer" (pepper) which does not make any sense
still think you did a good job meyotch ^^
often people new to german say "mein" instead of "meine" and i cant really explain why but in that context its correct
Herr Schraeder in German 101 taught me well.
Well enough that I was able to get three or four exchanges into conversations with random Berliners before they caught on that I was making most of it up.
In the train station, they would just walk a way, a bit disgusted.
In the beer garden, it became instant friendship.
Hasenpfeffer ergibt doch total Sinn: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/da_liegt_der_Hase_im_Pfeffer
🙃
I would still say I don't understand written German, and I certainly couldn't understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.
So thanks for that, ich_iel!
ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn
I'm sorry, michmichs? you don't really say that, do you? it's not like the word comes from "me", its just a play on "genes".
you guys just say "memes" right?
... right?
No we don't say that and I was completely confused until I read the english line.
we say that if we speak in Zangendeutsch, but not normally
Nein
Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?
Mama: Wir haben feuchte Michmichs zu Hause.
Michmichs zu Hause:
🇩🇪 JD Vance hatte DANK MEMES gemacht.
🇬🇧 JD Vance made DANK MEMES
Dank(e) = Thank(s)(you)
Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.
Mais qu'est-ce qu'ils disent?
You know, in Germany we learn English since elementary school.
Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school
German here. I want to learn another language besides German and English.
Which foreign language has the best memes here on lemmy so I can learn that language?
Also dschermän here. I want to get into Spanish because so many countries speak some variation of it, French would also be cool, although I'll never sound as slippery smooth as those mfs.
Native English speaker who’s been trying to learn French formally and informally for years and every time I open my mouth I just feel like I’m taking a chainsaw to the language as a whole.
Slippery mfs indeed.
Völkerverständigung! ⚒️
Anyone said “du hast michmich” yet?
Yes
Wunderbar.
And I can beides sprechen
Those new-fangled memes are watered-down trash, though. Vintage memes slapped harder.
Oh nice I didn't know this existed and that activated a dormant part of my brain, now I can't stop. Thanks Obama!
Guten morgen Deutschland :)
英語とハンガリー語レミングは、よけいまんがやアニメのために日本語に勉強します。