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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Trochę późno przyszłem na ten post, ale nie znaczy że nie mogę przyjść i skomentować

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago

OUI, COMMENCONS AVEC LA LANGUE ET DES PETITES ROUES POUR LES PIEDS!!!

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

El señor de la nooocheee

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In this instance we speak American!! Check instance Oh wait.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Those filthy Brits can't fool me. Speak American!

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, stewardess, I speak American
clears throat 🦅 🍔 🛻

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't call me Shirley

[–] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

I love waking up in the morning and seeing all the wackiness the rest of the world concocted.

Y'all are all have some amazing and funny cultures.

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 44 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Just because the Americans are asleep doesn't mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I'm not sure we've even got the hang of English half the time.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pro tip: learning French and German nets you up to 75% better English skills.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 11 hours ago

Unless you’re Irish. Then your English stays the same and your Irish fluency decreases.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

Can confirm, Baltimore has this southern adjacent accent with a northern twang.

That is a MASSIVE tongue twister for northern maryalnd

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago

I thought we were calling the thing you speak Strayan!

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago

Bon matin France (Bon soir Quebec)

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 61 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Memes to moimois is freaking funny (me = moi in French)

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, we do that in German, too. Me=mich -> meme=Michmich.

According to someone from rance they do the moimoi-thing, too.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don't know if it's used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it's just too new... We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to...), upvotes are positivotes... So why not moimois!

[–] moody@lemmings.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The use of moimoi is itself a meme.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Memeception

Moimoiception en français!

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

positivotes sounds much happier

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

But negativotes sounds much sadder

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[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I'm realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

imo the actual etymology is weirder

it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s

it's used to describe an "idea-gene"; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication

like a mind-virus

hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of "memory" and "gene"

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Damn am i the only one who knows that meme comes from "culture gene"?

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm supposed to be asleep?

Nice try, dweeb.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 15 hours ago

I wanna be asleep lol

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The few of us awake appreciate your antics.

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dat lijkt me een goed idee :)

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[–] lzs_jinxin@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

أتفق معك كل الإتفاق

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

I don't understand, it's 2am and my memes aren't in german, what's happening?

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure our insomniacs still outnumber the Europeans (At least on Lemmy)

Edit: I continued scrolling and maybe not. Keep seeing these things I don't understand. Well played.

[–] Tracaine@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

We don't all sleep. Some of us have amphetamine addictions instead.

[–] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Or hungry infants or cats.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago

Ja, lad os alle bande på dansk, svensk, norsk, og xhosa!

[–] TomViolence@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Look at the time, it's already french pickiness o'clock!

The correct way to phrase this is "pour poster des moimois dans toutes les langues".

Sorry, I had to, it's a cultural thing.

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Eh, last time I spoke french was some 15± years ago, of course I had to make some mistake.

Mais merci pour la correction, sinon on n'apprend rien.

[–] TomViolence@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

I miserably failed at german in school. You did way better than I would have done in your language ;).

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

On dit "faire des poteaux", pas "poster"!

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Sacré bleu! Mais non.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 13 hours ago

moderatorerna sover, skicka mejmejs

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