I mean I was planning to visit in the next couple of years anyway I guess…
I was learning it (super slowly, thanks ADHD) anyway, but it was when I finally read a 3-sentence long post and could read 90% of it without really thinking about it that I felt I was progressing at all
So of course I haven’t practiced in weeks now, fuuck
just remember that ich_iel has a lot of fun with literal translations of english words which can lead to very weird german.
Nur erinnere, dass ich_iel ein Los des Spaßes mit literarischen Übersetzungen von englischen Wörtern hat, was zu seltsamen Deutsch bleien kann.
lmao bleien
This will all just lead to an increase in suffering 😢
Dies wird alles gerecht bleien zu einem innenschmalz in Leiderei 😢
Schmalz ist aber grease, nicht crease. Also Innenfalz vielleicht…
Stimmt, ich hatte einfach nur phonetisch “übersetzt” weil es lustig klang - aber ein paar Stunden danach ist mir auch wieder eingefallen, dass “crease” ja selbst auch ein Wort war, hatte dann aber keine Lust mehr es zu korrigieren/zu ändern.
That’s so metal 🤟
Wenn es Metall ist, kommt es in die gelbe Tonne oder auf den Wertstoffhof. Ordnung muss sein.
I haven’t seen a single one, so nicht ich.
… What German posts?
Lemmy tags all posts with the language they are written in. Most clients filter any posts not of your selected languages by default. Hence, there is a good chance you never notice German posts.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that setting. Since that specific setting says, “If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content,” I just assumed most people didn’t select a language when they post. Since I still have “Undetermined” selected, I’d assumed I’d still see some foreign language posts.
I copy that and will increase production, if you ask I translate, you’re welcome.
Sincerely, RatherMaybe.
Does anyone know what is the deal with the images (I assume it’s some kind of German meme) of people or characters with instant ramen on their head?
The noodles are just my signature. So just ignore the noodels. They have nothing todo with the meme directly. I just place them on the head of whoever in the meme is me.
Haha all this time I thought it was some widespread cultural reference. Thanks for all the OC!
No problem. Sadly in the last time I post less because I kinda made all of my meme ideas haha
Creativity comes and goes. I don’t like the internet’s culture of forcing content creators to produce no matter what because it leads to poor quality. The ideas will come back
Thanks :)
Might be the wrong answer, but I think it’s kind of a signature of the creator… Sth with insta in his name
Ding ding ding You are Correct!! :D All the memes with instant noodels are from me. Its my signature. :)
@instantnudel@feddit.org one of the more prolific ich_iel denizens.
A better reason to learn it is that anything you say in German sounds like swearing.
Mein Hovercraft ist voll von Aalen!
Holy heck that is an oooooold MAD-Magazine reference. xD Kudos my good sir!
An old Monty Python reference. 😀
Too many Hollywood movies m3in Freund.
Yeah. Once I overheard someone chatting behind me while in a train. I knew it was in German because I’ve learnt some long time before. It was the cutest (presumably romantic) conversation I’ve ever even though I didn’t understand much. Before that I’ve always thought French sounded the nicest, but that conversation shattered my belief.
A while later, I went to Germany to visit friend. While at a museum I read out loud some descriptions on items there. He told me I spoke like in films, even like Hitler. Hearing him talking with family, it was very casual and there was no sudden change of intonation like in movies. I somehow realized stereotype in movies ruined my perspective on the language.
SPRICH
DEUTSCH
DU
LIEBER
SPRACHENLERNER
BIS
DAN
DICH
GAST
I know some German (B1), but it’s been a few years since I had classes and those posts help me brush up my German (though they are a bit advanced for my level).
I doubt the issue is your ability to speak/read German but the heavy use of Zangendeutsch.
Why would anyone do that😔
(Tnx for the site btw)
Trouble with ich_iel is that they usually translate English words literally into German. Even names or English words that exist in German. The worse the translation the better.
So, uh, don’t learn everything from them.
How can you do Zangendeutsch/Denglisch like that?
What, my first dialect of German shouldn’t be epic memer?
*epischer Michmicher
Don’t learn german. As a german I always feel sorry for people who learn this language just for 80 million old people ^^
As a german I have to say learn whatever language you want, even if nobody speaks it.
Ok, I’m learning QBASIC
You should rather learn FORTRAN and make a lot of cash at some bank ;)
Most of the classic big financial tech mainframes actually run on COBOL, at least in Europe. Though even those are very slowly being replaced, mostly by Java. Still, freelancers with COBOL specialty do rake in huge sums. It’s not only about the rare tech skills ( COBOL isn’t worse or harder than other languages, it’s just old and thus simple), it’s about having those skills combined with a sufficiently high security clearance.
Oooops sorry, I meant COBOL
Someone forgets the existence of other countries where people speak German
nie.
please be advised that speaking german properly is super fucking hard compared to learning many other languages, and you don’t need german in germany for the most part.
when I’m in germany I speak my shitty, broken german and they respond to me in english
That’s when you double down and tell them in German that you don’t speak English. That’ll confuse 'em.
I once asked a German guy in Germany if he spoke German. On accident. When I was trying to ask him if he spoke English.
Did he reply in German that he didn’t? :-)
They probably speak English with you because your German is not sufficiently efficient.
My favorite phrase to use in all foreign countries is “Please forgive me, I am American.” It gets a laugh out of almost everyone even when terribly butchered in any language and most people will then attempt English for you.
Except Parisians, who do not care. I think they would prefer I point and grunt to trying either English or my awful French.
Thank you for differentiating between french and parisians.
I was thinking about it for a while. The posts encouraged me. The prospect of possibly wanting to leave the US in the next year or two depending on things also makes me want to learn a second language.
1933: Moving to the US to escape Nazi Germany.
2025: Moving to Germany to escape Nazi US.
Come to Germany, we need more sysasmins (smart voters)
I took spanish in school but if I had to do over would have likely done french but german is second choice.
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Mark Twain wrote an essay about The awful German language