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          That’s the meme. They translate English expressions, names and brands into German 1:1, disregarding any standing idioms and available translations. Hard to read even as a German native. Struggling to figure out what to OP meant is like 90% of the fun.

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            Haha, I remember trying to tell a German colleague that another colleague was ‘ingverklerten’ because he had red hair, apparently the German word for ginger is not used to represent colour. Almost as popular as our attempt to call someone a ‘glockenende’ when they had been foolish. Sounds like I should look into ich_iel a bit.

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      And it’s less funny if you translate it into English because part of the joke is literal translations that make no sense in German

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      I see the memes and laugh because I imagine a German person seeing it and laughing at it.

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    I’m legit considering getting back to learning German to understand their memes, they look so juicy

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    I studied German in high school but I don’t remember any of it. I like to pretend that ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet.

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    I took French in high school and barely scraped by. My wife took German and went on an exchange program for six weeks after high school and had a terrific time.

    Close to 30 years later and I remember a lot of the French but she’s forgotten most of the German.

    So who’s laughing now, huh?

    Oh right, you got to have those six weeks in Germany. Merde.

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        You won cause you can insult the French in their own language.

        Not as well as the French can insult me for being American. And in perfect English too, most likely.

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          Define perfect English. Cause you could always lord over them the fact that they have a shitty government entity that used to gorce them to use what amounts to a government enforced dialect.

          Meanwhile if I wrote phonetically it would be mildly ineligible, just like my dialect.

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    Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.

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    In case you’re learning French to be able to work at a bigger French company - don’t. You will be very unhappy. The basic reason is, French companies, even those who think they’re “modern”, are still run like Louis XIV’s is the CEO. Like an extremely rigid, top-down, feudalistic little empire full of screaming bosses and servile employees.

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    As a German who speaks french: French is probably the easier language since you don’t need to declinate words and only really use 3 forms for time.

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      Yes but at the same time german writing system is almost phonetic while french have many way to write one sound.

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      I studied German in high school and then as an adult I traveled to India and studied Malayalam, the language of the southern-most state of Kerala. I was surprised at how similar Malayalam was to German (in terms of grammatical structure, not vocabulary) and learned that it’s because of Hermann Gundert, a 19th Century German missionary who learned Malayalam (and a bunch of other Indian languages) and published its first formal grammar, more-or-less imposing German’s grammatical structure onto it.

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    For me it’s Dutch. The Dutch own late night Lemmy for me and I want to know what I’m missing.

    I’ve picked up on Overleden though :(

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        No umlauts, just keep adding vowels and it’s more or less done isn’t it?

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    You don’t miss that much. They are trying to do edgy dank memes in german. The “culture” they represent is quite white and cleasend from migrant humor.

    Its the german version of these alt right pepe memes.

    Seriously, you missed nothing.

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      How is it “cleasend”? Did you mean “cleansed”?

      I mean the community is very male and white dominated but not excluding anyone. And more self referential than edgy. What even makes it edgy??

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          I’m still not sure what exactly you mean but I would love to see immigrant culture on ich_iel and I think most others do too! It’s not that the community is hostile or anything and people who don’t speak German or things explained when they ask.

          How could the community be more inclusive? What would you suggest? Or where do you see active hostility?

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            They are hostile. There are anti migrant dog whistles all over the sub and a lot more on reddit.

            German discrimination is always very “under the hood” and highly sophisticated. You cant be “right and proud” due to the holocaust.

            The reality is that the second strongest party has roots to the old NSDAP.

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                  Maybe how a community that has quite a number of anti-CDU memes is dogwhistling nazi code. That the community is German isn’t enough to say it is nazi. You can link posts and explain the dogwhistles or maybe decode some common dogwhistles without link. I’m curious to lern the NS background of surgeons.

                  Edit: For starters here is one opposed to the AfD: https://feddit.org/post/934777

                  Edit2: Another anti right meme: https://feddit.org/post/953166
                  You are yet to give me one example or argument or piece of evidence for your bold claims.

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      Well tell me how exactly a non white culture is supposed to emerge in a country with a non existent colored population, or am i missing some specific meaning here ?

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        Listen Nazi smooog.

        We have 5 Million turks (1st and 2nd gen), 1 Million Syrians and 1 million from all over west Asia and Africa. Out of ~50M adults

        w€ aRe sUCH a WhiTE cuLtUrE

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          Yes thats about 14% of the population ehich are living mostly in cities and usually in blocks with very high percentage of immigrants and very little exchange. I would see it more as living on the same turf than living together… No shared culture emerges from that

          Also stop pushing people into categories because you dont like their opinions

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            Yeah those stupid migrants risked EVERYTHING to come here and live and ghetto’s and push weed.

            Reality is, they arent allowed to work, and even if they have a job, only german last names get flats in german neighborhoods. And there is actual law which allows racism in that regard. Systematic rasicm is woven with old German racial thinking.

            The boxes are fine. You and iel fit well in the neo-nazi box :)

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              You just said the majority was turks, last time i checked turkey wasn’t that bad.

              If you need a simple abstraction like those neonazis and us rightful fair progressives or whatever you probably have a simple personality which fits just as well in in of those boxes. Its probably hard to perceive complexity in this position…

              Awaiting your enraged answer with amusement, clearly superior person of the internet

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                  Quote exactly from MY comments where i wrote something saying " immigrants are bad" or similar…

                  Edit if you take this seriosly im actally wondering

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      Pepe memes are hilarious though. I suppose that is why you specified alt right pepe memes. It is indeed true, lotta right wingers can’t meme