Spyke
feddit.de

The name of the fish "Stör" is the same as the word "disturb". That alone offers a lot of potential for bad puns.

It is also weirdly common as a part of other words that don't have anything to do with fish. And third, there are parts of words that sound similar to Stör.

Take all those ingredients and you can have a lot of fun with strange word combinations and only native speakers have a realistic chance of understanding.

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The people in charge of hiring the people in charge of firing the people who wrote the subtitles, have been fired.

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lemmy.world

Even though I studied German for years idioms and sentence structure still throw me off. I tried to translate that looking up only the words I didn't remember and figured "dein Scheiss Fahrrad" was "your shit bike" and Kriegen is to catch (or get I guess in this context), so I was like "No, you catch your shit bike not back" doesn't make sense grammatically in English, so I put it into Google Translate and it translated it as "No, you won't get your damn bike back". Maybe it's because I learned High German and only ever used it in formal settings 95% of the time but it still throws me off, I have a hell of a time trying to understand spoken German because I don't have the time to parse it mentally most of the time.

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Magnetarreply
feddit.de

In German is the word order simply different than in English. That stands in simple sentences not too much out, but if I, like now, try a sentence to build, that more complex and harder to understand is, will you that notice or in the worst case so much confused be that you it not understand can will.

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I had to translate this to german to understand... and I'm not even german

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It is really not easy such to write, I must with violence the part of my brain suppress that the English grammar knows.

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Samsyreply
lemmy.ml

Germans have the same problem with english, too. Most of the time, I built the grammar in a sentence like I would do in german.

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lemmy.world

Well to be fair, even native English speakers have problems with English. It's a clusterfuck of a language. Learning German made me realize that more than I already did.

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feddit.de

Vocabulary in German is overall more logical than in English. But German grammar is very much a clusterfuck too.

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Johannoreply
feddit.de

Catch would be "fangen" "kriegen/bekommen" is get.

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It says to catch smb. Would be "jemanden kriegen" but important to know is that "jemanden kriegen" is basically the same as "jemanden fangen" I know weird, the context is important. Bur the first translation of "kriegen" is to get sth.

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lemmy.world

Aber ich bin amerikanische und sprechen zwei sprechen ist schwierig. Können wir englisch amerikanische sprechen bitte?

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lemmy.ml

It's a type of fish, and they are making word plays with the name of the fish. Why? I'm not sure of the origin of this one. I imagine it's like the beans or the beef stroganoff memes - the origin doesn't matter much at this point.

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waiglreply
lemmy.world

The English word for the fish is "sturgeon".

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beccabobenreply
lemmy.world

I tried my hand on one of those AI image makers... Almost got kicked off twice because apparently "like-a-virgin-era Madonna but a sturgeon" is considered inappropriate somehow.

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Probably because of the word "virgin"

Also I was thinking more about "Like a surgeon" which is Weird Al's parody

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Just after Salmon(d). Presumably, the next one will be the well-known Scottish politician Davey Coelacanth.

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feddit.de

I actually started with eels. Aal (=> eel) can be inserted basically everywhere by just stretching the "a" a bit, like "Aalle wissen das" instead of "Alle wissen das" (everyone knows that). As far as I know, this started (or at least became popular) via Jan Böhmermann, he had some jokes about that in his show - the same guy who wrote the "goat fucker"-poem about Erdogan that caused massive diplomatic problems and resulted in changed laws.

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elvithreply
feddit.de

Wir servieren heute Aal la carte:

  • Aalgensalat
  • HopfenkaltschAale
  • Pasta Aal dente
  • KAalter Hund
  • Pizza CAalzone

Edit: This also works in english:

Something's fishy. I think Russia is trying to interfere with our Eelections

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I started the Aalphabet in my family. Every time we encounter a word that matches, it is added. It’s geniaal!

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feddit.de

I'm german - UND ICH VERSTEH DAS AUCH NICHT!

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lemmy.world

I love when German memes pop up on my feed. It’s like being given the context clues and visual aid, while the actors speak in Black Speech

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Wants to know how a meme works, incorrectly uses a meme to express the desire.

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feddit.nl

Where are these Memes you are talking about? I only saw the sturgeon'off one. Am I bamboozled?

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It was my language settings, German was turned off and therefore filtered out. You can not change or access them in the app interface hence my extra confusion besides this stupid way of handling language.

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feddit.de

Mostly making fun with words and nonsense. It's not even really funny.

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lemmy.world

Look, it's all the Germans have for humor, OK? Let them have this.

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feddit.de

Ich bin fertig mit Lachen. Kann ich jetzt wieder aus dem Keller kommen?

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