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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 129 points 10 months 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.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 43 points 10 months ago

Is that true? My dear mister singing club!

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] clifftiger@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

Classic english for runaways.

[–] Cyclo@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Must you give your mustard to everything?

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Ich kann konfirmieren dies.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months 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".

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

Hacke einen Baum runter.

Hacke einen Baum hoch.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kleine Hiebe fällen große Eichen!

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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