inspired by https://lemmy.world/post/29475392
Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don't like that meme format, this represents us:
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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My folks also do something similar. I'd bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it 'yoyo' or just 'meme'?
In polish that would be "jaja" when means "balls" (as in testicles) so no polish people don't really do that
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I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
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How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.
Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
Watch out ! They're coming for you !
best i can do is not to leave home, thus, no lifestyle changes needed
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maymay the meme be with you
Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like "maymays", you need to spell it "meimeis")
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Donde esta la biblioteca?
Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca
Yea, Boiii - source
me me = michmich
ich lol'd
Amazing-ich.
Oh god I'm starting to learn German from these now....
The only word I didn't understand in the top part was "Michmichs"
Mich = me
Michmich = meme, basically Zangendeutsch, a figurative translation of foreign words to German.
Relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichtzen.
I'm extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn't understand half of them
Don't worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
The way I see it:
On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
...skill issue?
I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism
Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we'll just have to "huh" together for a little while longer.
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use ~~literal~~ letteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with "michmichs".
Das memekopf blungt meine hassenpfeffer!
How am I doing?
It makes absolutely zero sense and I love it.
i dont know what "blungt" and "hassenpfeffer" are
blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
hassenpfeffer is confusing me more
my head splits it in "hassen"(hate)/"Hasen"(rabbit) and "Pfeffer" (pepper) which does not make any sense
still think you did a good job meyotch ^^
often people new to german say "mein" instead of "meine" and i cant really explain why but in that context its correct
Herr Schraeder in German 101 taught me well.
Well enough that I was able to get three or four exchanges into conversations with random Berliners before they caught on that I was making most of it up.
In the train station, they would just walk a way, a bit disgusted.
In the beer garden, it became instant friendship.
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I would still say I don't understand written German, and I certainly couldn't understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.
So thanks for that, ich_iel!
ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn
I'm sorry, michmichs? you don't really say that, do you? it's not like the word comes from "me", its just a play on "genes".
you guys just say "memes" right?
... right?
No we don't say that and I was completely confused until I read the english line.
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German here. I want to learn another language besides German and English.
Which foreign language has the best memes here on lemmy so I can learn that language?
Also dschermän here. I want to get into Spanish because so many countries speak some variation of it, French would also be cool, although I'll never sound as slippery smooth as those mfs.
Native English speaker who’s been trying to learn French formally and informally for years and every time I open my mouth I just feel like I’m taking a chainsaw to the language as a whole.
Slippery mfs indeed.
You know, in Germany we learn English since elementary school.
Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school
Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.
Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?
Mama: Wir haben feuchte Michmichs zu Hause.
Michmichs zu Hause:
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Völkerverständigung! ⚒️
Those new-fangled memes are watered-down trash, though. Vintage memes slapped harder.
Oh nice I didn't know this existed and that activated a dormant part of my brain, now I can't stop. Thanks Obama!
And I can beides sprechen
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