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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

jokes on you, I have been learning german before lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Also learn everything about Linux so I can get all these Linux memes that keep popping up. And learn to program so I can get all the programmer memes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Back when this meme format was making the rounds on 4chan, I always saw it as a guy with a really long Fu Manchu moustache and to this day I still can't unsee it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Wasn't there even a rage comic about that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's how I've always seen it too. Your comment just now made me realize that those are his forearms.

You have ruined the Internet and memes for me forever now. I hope you're happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Suffer well, brother.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Ich habe vier Jahre auf Deutsch gelernt, aber mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht.

Honestly, I couldn't even remember if Deutsch was feminine, masculine, or neuter... but my pronunciation has always been spot on at least. I should just pick it back up, it'd be mostly vocab grind for me at this point. But I last learned years and years ago... dang, almost 18 years now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I've been doing German on Duolingo for over a year and I can get about 20% of the content they post, so I'm pretty happy to have an actual use for the work I put in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I still can't figure out what "ich eil" means or even what language it is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ich im echten Leben.

They take English and translate it word for word in a very literal fashion. It's very difficult to understand for regular Germans because you kinda need to know the original English sayings to make sense of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

And it's somehow still an amazing experience despite not knowing a single word

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ich iel is a german acronym for "meirl"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Ah, im echten Leben, iel! Finally the quarter fell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Good choice. Nobody who speaks German could be an evil man.

As a side benefit, you will also be able to converse with Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, and Robert Terwilliger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, I didn't know Kim Jong- un can speak German

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I bet he speaks it like the same he doesn't have to shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

He went to school in Switzerland. Maybe that explains the Laibach concert.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Kind of fed up with this "meme"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

The meme format i have no problems with, it's the content in it, yeah we get it, Germans use Lemmy.

Thanks for the meme, much appreciated 😄

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I saw this one and was like "oh shit i guess i speak german."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You guys are aware you can filter by language in the settings of your Lemmy account, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I wasn't! Thanks for the clue!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

That's like the most useless setting ever because nobody enforces the language while commenting

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