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Guten Tag Everybody (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 128 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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 point 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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