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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

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    ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.

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      52•2 years ago

      Es ist, was es ist.

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        15•2 years ago

        Tja.

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      43•2 years ago

      Is that true? My dear mister singing club!

    • Karyoplasma
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      My English is so good, that makes me nobody so quickly after!

      • @[email protected]
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        10•2 years ago

        Classic english for runaways.

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        7•2 years ago

        Must you give your mustard to everything?

    • Nakedmole
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      13•2 years ago

      Ich kann konfirmieren dies.

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      1•2 years ago

      It has nothing to do with your friends throwing trash on the ground

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      That honestly sounds like it would be hilarious.
      Does it translate well back into English enough to get the joke?

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        Yes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn’t actually make sense in German, but that’s part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.

        As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.

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          1•2 years ago

          The English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like “chop a tree down” followed immediately be “chop a tree up”.

          • Johanno
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            4•2 years ago

            Hacke einen Baum runter.

            Hacke einen Baum hoch.

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            Kleine Hiebe fällen große Eichen!

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