• @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    I had a chat with them yesterday using google translate and apparently they think “From the river to the sea” is problematic. Not sure why, but it’s probably their government lying to them and saying Palestine is an ethnostate.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        I reject the existence of Israel too. Before Israel, Jews and Arabs lived in peace in Palestine. But Britain invaded, created Israel, and cut Palestine in half. From the river to the sea, Arab Palestinians must be free to walk hand in hand with their Jewish siblings. Not imprisoned behind Israeli walls, forced out of their homes, and bombed in the name of stopping a Hamas government that Israel themselves helped gain power. Hamas is Israel’s fault, not the fault of the innocent children in Gaza. Israel is responsible for the attacks against Jews in Israel and in the rest of the world. Because Israel has told the world that Jews are evil colonisers and their existence must be paid for in innocent blood. This is a slanderous lie against the Jewish people! Down with Israel! Down with antisemitism! Down with genocide!

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          Agreed, but thats still no reason to identify with Hamas. I expect from a capable Individual like you to be able to differentiate and form an independent opinion

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            From the river to the sea has existed a lot longer than Hamas has in in power. A conservative government can’t “claim” a half century old chant.

            Australia’s national animal is a kangaroo. If I draw a kangaroo on the canvas, does it mean I support the dictatorship of Australia? No, of course not. Because Australia doesn’t get to own the idea of kangaroos. And Hamas doesn’t get to own this chant. This chant is a lot less tied to the views of a conservative government than the German flag it’s drawn on.

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    That means you should start /c/moi_dlvv

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        Or when you try to read a word aloud and realize it’s basically the same as the English word with 50% more consonents.

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          That’s the meme. They translate English expressions, names and brands into German 1:1, disregarding any standing idioms and available translations. Hard to read even as a German native. Struggling to figure out what to OP meant is like 90% of the fun.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Haha, I remember trying to tell a German colleague that another colleague was ‘ingverklerten’ because he had red hair, apparently the German word for ginger is not used to represent colour. Almost as popular as our attempt to call someone a ‘glockenende’ when they had been foolish. Sounds like I should look into ich_iel a bit.

            • Karyoplasma
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              What you should tell your German colleague about the ginger is “Wo das Dach rostig ist, ist der Keller feucht.”

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      Grammar and syntax aside, it’s basically /me_irl for our German-speaking compadres. Most other languages - French included - generally have a community analogous to most of the popular English-language communities.

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      Ich, im echtem Leben.

      me_irl

      hugsandkisses

      // Änderung: Ich bin der, der dich runtergewählt hat.

      • @[email protected]
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        461 year ago

        It’s better because every post with an English word gets

        SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN

        as a response

        • @[email protected]
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          231 year ago

          And yet when I try to SPRICH DEUTCH to actual live Germans they give me a pitying look and firmly reply in perfect English

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              141 year ago

              Only because of their exacting standards. Even when I lived in Germany in the 90s the only time I had trouble understanding someone speaking English was when our realtor was trying to be racist but didn’t know the English words.

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                  131 year ago

                  See, that is what I mean. Nobody speaks “perfect” English, not even native speakers, because languages are not prescriptive. Their function is to communicate ideas and if you have successfully communicated then you have used language “perfectly”.

            • LoudWaterHombre
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              Yes the English qualities in Germany itself are a total shitshow compared to the countries around Germany (except France and Italia)

        • teft
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          Well yeah, the germans are well known sticklers to rules.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          61 year ago

          Hey I just tried the trick of sounding it out and I got it! Thanks Picard manoeuvre (I still don’t know how to ping).

  • @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    I studied German in high school but I don’t remember any of it. I like to pretend that ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet.

    • Captain Baka
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      ich_iel is just using made up nonsense words, like the Swedish Chef muppet

      We’re more into dumb sturgeon puns.

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          That’s mostly one dude named “Instantnudeln” and the noodles were to signify his pov in the michmich.

  • @[email protected]
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    Understanding the language is great but it’s not enough. Unfortunately the majority of stuff posted are inside jokes which is why a lot of people perceive them as unfunny apparently

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    Learning French in the US is such a let down. Spanish is the unofficial second national language and German has the best memes.

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    French is so difficult to learn because of the pronunciation. Spanish is much easier to learn in comparison. I don’t get why all school in Germany prefer French as third language before Spanish.

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        Also long history of french being what different social elites like nobles and intellectuals liked to cosplay, leading to french being kind of a status symbol for being culturally educated

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          Also I think the more pressing/interesting question is why they don’t teach turkish, since ~every 30th person has a turkish backround

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            English and French are world languages and open up job opportunities. Turkish is only spoken in Turkey, it isn’t interesting economically and immigration from Turkey to Germany is a one-way street. If you want to learn Turkish that’s cool, but it is and should be optional at school.

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              Thats the gist. Of course it should be optional, no one said it should be mandatory, and I feel like the defensiveness of that argument is not entirely accidental.

              My argument is that learning the language of the majority of immigrants would be testimony of a actually open post-migrant society.

              Instead it’s “no one migrates to turkey and its economically useless”, as if learning french in school would be relevant to the migration of germans to france. Encounters of germans and turskish migrants happens on daily basis though.

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                Of course it should be optional, no one said it should be mandatory

                I made the distinction because English and French were mandatory at my school in Germany. Many more languages were offered though if they had a teacher available. I remember Spanish, Italian and Chinese, I just can’t remember if Turkish was one of them.

                I feel like the defensiveness of that argument is not entirely accidental.

                My family is Kurdish, so I admit that maybe there’s a subconscious bias when learning Turkish comes up, if you know anything about the situation in Turkey and Kurdistan 🙂

                as if learning french in school would be relevant to the migration of germans to france.

                French skills are extremely valuable to Germans who want to work in Switzerland or Luxembourg

                Btw, ben de biraz türkçe biliyorum, ama çok konuşmiyorum… in my daily life 😅 Dunno how to say that last part

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                  Haha okay I automatically assumed I was talking to a techie-alman speaking out of a eurocentric perspective. How the turn tables.

                  Of course I understand your bias.

                  And yeah, switzerland… I still think that affects much less people than there are people living and working alongside turkish immigrants. This should motivate seeing turkish culture as valuable in the sense of living the cultural melting pot we created for economic reasons.

                  I dont understand the turkish part… something annoys you I guess? Anyway biji kurdistan. (Also not sure how to spell that. In my school they taught french and latin)

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          21 year ago

          I would have thought Germans are too practical for that kind of thing.

          • @[email protected]
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            The notion of national character might also be deceptive regarding its practicality, specifically to understand culture. Sincerly, practical german

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      The most populated region at war times was West Germany. It was governed by France after war.

      I have no idea if this is actually the reason but we are incredibly thankful for restoring our country by our french friends - which we harassed and killed beforehand.

      They still got up to the job.

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    Expanding your brain by 20% might not go well… that’s extra 20% to worry about.