it is german right? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

These memes are much like health care... As an american I dont get it.

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[–] 140 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Please speak Dutch in the classroom.

    Lol easy bro

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

    Nein, du kriegst dein Scheiß Fahrrad nicht zurück!

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago

    It's a long störy.

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  • [–] 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The English word for the fish is "sturgeon".

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    What an exciting way to write STÖR

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Lass dich davon nicht Stören.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Stör is a fish

    And it's also really prevelant in a lot of German words

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

    Why are the dots above the R?

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