• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Every now and then I just save the German memes and send them to my English group chats to make sure they’re confused too.

    • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Right? I think they’re underestimating the comedic value of dropping a half understood meme in an American group chat.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    the odds of you learning German a 2nd language are slim if you’re honest with yourself.

    set you language and block feddit.

    • mcforest@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      the odds of you learning a 2nd language are slim

      Tell me you’re American without telling me you’re American.

    • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The odds? It’s not a random chance event; people can just start learning German whenever they’d like to, if they want to!

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Fediverse mods have announced an agreement to adopt English as the preferred language for communications, rather than German, which was another possibility.

      As part of the negotiations, mods at lemmy.world conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement and have accepted a five-year phase-in plan. In the first year, “s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Also, the hard “c” will be replased with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but komputers will need one less letter.

      There will be growing kommunity enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replased by “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20 persent shorter.

      In the third year, akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible.

      Mods will enkourage the removal of double letters, whish have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent “e”'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

      By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps sush as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” by “v”.

      During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be droped from vords kontaining “o”, and similar shanges vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

      After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and employes vil find it ezi to kommunikat viz eash ozer.

      Ov kors al supliers vil be expekted to us zis for all busines komunikation via DaimlerKhrysler.

      Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

      • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        Itt’s æ fønn mim, bøtt Ai ålwejs fil lajk thej kudd hæv dønn æ better dsjåbb åv the juropien spelling. In eni kejs, itt’s æ veri nais søbreddit, æn Ai kip fårgetting iff ther’s wan ån Lemmy.

            • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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              2 months ago

              synnejysk eller sønderjysk (syd-jysk), er en dialekt fra det sydlige Jylland der kan være en smule svært at forstå for os der tale rigsdansk, men til gengæld kan folk fra områderne syd for grænsen, både Tyskland og Holland også godt forstå det en smule. Det er altid sjovt at se fællesnævnerne for sprog når det krydser grænser på den måde.

      • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        This whole thread is glorious. (Also did your autocorrect put up a fight or did it completely give up trying. I’d love it if this is how we fight AI in the future.)

      • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Zat isn’t quit enugh to fix english. “Gh” kuld be replased wiz ‘f’ vher it vuld mak sens and ze same viz ‘x’ to “ks” & ‘y’ to ‘j’. Vhile duble leters as used nov shuld be simplifid, I think it kuld be useful to mark long vovels by using tvo of the same letter. Vhile zis vuld help a lot, ze most important shange I’l sugest is to use vovels that reflect ze pronunsiation. Vhen juu vant to vrait “smorgasbord” juu vuld insted vrait ze moor sensibl “smöörgoosbuurd”. Sadli, inglish is a horibl bodg of a languig, meid bai miksing vai too mani diferent languiges, so moor fikses aar veri velkom.

  • tentaclenumber3 [she/they]@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I won’t bother because the German CCC have been saying some awful stuff about me (Canadian). I have smi and autism and have been a recipient of abuse for a while due to not being a brogrammer right out of the gate upon joining Lemmy. I can’t help noticing a few of the people responsible just happen to be German users. One of them was called out for astroturfing a post alluding to my mental health issues and disabilities.

    Just gonna leave this here. Might delete later. Or maybe it’s a matter of discussion on the meta Lemmy thing. I’m open to talking about it if anyone wants to, or if anyone has experienced similar algorithmic creepy stalking-flavoured bullying.

    • WbrJr@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      I am sorry to hear that. Do you mean the chaos computer club with CCC? In my experience the CCC is incredible accepting and welcoming for everyone no matter who. I hope you give them another chance, they do important work.

    • eneff@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      Are you saying the CCC as an organisation has been targeting you as an individual by publicly defaming you?

      I find that very hard to believe.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m in Ohio and my German is meh but I can understand 65%ish of what I see. It helps I lived in Duesseldorf for a year, but that was over 35 years ago so it doesn’t help enough.

  • Obi@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    I’ve deleted memrise and am strictly learning German through these memes, I’m confident I’ll be fluent by the end of the year.

    • ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The only true way to learn languages is pull up yomitan and anki. The most powerful language tools man has to offer