This is also true just walking around in my hometown in Norway during the summer holidays.
Serves you right for having such a beautiful country
Ze Jermans are everywhere
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HAMMERZEIT
Und nicht nur dann! 👋
I’ve been wanting to learn German for years now, specifically because “ich_iel” looked really fun.
Guess now is as good of a time as any!
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I read somewhere on Lemmy that ich_iel deliberately uses wrong words four the lulz. So be careful or you’ll be learning bad grammar. Youse diggitty?
Well well well,
Brunnen Brunnen Brunnen,
So ich_iel is making jokes on translation english. Instead of translating the meaning they look for funny and/or literally translations.
Instead of translating “well, well, well” with sth that fits like (Gut gut gut) they use the water well translation.
Marken Sinn. Danke schön.
Germans being tricksy? Well, I never!
ich_iel is peak German humor and internet culture. It’s a shame that they live on forbidden lands now. Although there’s hope, as the great migration has already begun
Wir kommen!
Someone wants to learn German for the good humour. Now I’ve seen everything!
Is that the marching sounds I’ve been hearing?
Red Alert intro starts
Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
BUMM BUMM BUMM
Lebenslanger Schicksalschatz. Only thing I know in German. Not sure if anyone’s gonna get the reference.
How I met your Mother? Yeah that… word…? Sentence…? Almost makes no sense in german lmao
Lmao thanks for the insight.
Also, Italy right now. Urlaubers uberal!
Still better than people assuming everyone’s american.
Sheisse…
Es ist besser für meine deutsche als duolingo
Viel Glück mit den Fällen
Ja, OP. Wenn Lemmy untergeht, werden wir alle Deutsche.
Tja. Könnt schlimmer kommen. Moin!
Moin!
Germany itself is federated. Coincidence?
I wonder why the Russians aren’t here. They sure like being federated too, innit?
We’re here, komrad
How does it work?
In Russia’s case, I’m pretty sure it’s a bunch of republics within the country that technically govern each other but aren’t sovereign, I can see where that came from since the USSR was literally just a bunch of self governing republics uniting under the common goal of socialism (it’s in the name). Hence why Russia calls itself today the Russian Federation.
As for Germany, well… Federated Republic of Germany. I’d assume its regions are very similarly self governing, they just don’t call themselves republics here.
There’s the Swiss Confederation. Not sure what the “con-” prefix means.
For Germany, the Federated part came from the three Allied zones that came together to form West Germany. Each zone would check and govern each other but weren’t sovereign. Then East Germany was added to form the Germany we know today.
With Switzerland, Confederation means each part of the country came together voluntarily. Membership in a confederation is voluntary while not necessarily so in a federation.
To explain it easier for an American, the thirteen colonies came together in a confederation during the revolutionary war, united under specific circumstances but still separate. Once the constitution passed and the USA was officially formed the states switched from a Confederation to a Federation. This is also why the Confederacy is the Confederacy, the states voluntarily banded together to revolt against the Union.
Thanks for explaining things in a way I never could.
