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。
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn’t understand half of them
…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.
Don’t worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.
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.
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
Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don’t like that meme format, this represents us:
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.
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
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, … basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
MeyahMeyah
Ka?
me me = michmich
ich lol’d
Amazing-ich.
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!
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!
I’m extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
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.
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, mantecaYea, Boiii - source
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
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.
maymay the meme be with you
Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
And I can beides sprechen
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 sensestill 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 correctHasenpfeffer ergibt doch total Sinn: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/da_liegt_der_Hase_im_Pfeffer
🙃
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.
