Tscholigum für die Verspätungen heute.

  • @[email protected]
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    314 months ago

    I started learning German half a year ago and one of the main reasons I picked German was because so many memes like this show up on my timeline and I wanted to understand them.

    This one made me realize that understanding what is written might not be enough.

    • trollercoaster
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      The missing context here is that OP works for the popular German railway company DB and therefore is personally responsible for all and every single one of their many delays, train cancellations, and other mishaps.

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        the popular German railway company DB

        There’s another one‽

        [Edit] I feel like people are not getting the joke. DB is the single most hated public infrastructure provider in Germany. So obviously, “the popular German railway company DB” must be a different entity. Hence “There’s another one⸘”

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      OP is a prolific poster who has shared they work at a signalling center for the german railway. Hence the “sorry for the (train) delays today”

      Farmers against potatoes is a mobile game

      Oh and tscholigum is supposed to mean Entschuldigung, it’s deliberatly misspelled, like “sorrz” for example

      • @[email protected]
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        84 months ago

        Thanks! I was watching Mindful Murder some time ago and had the impression that whenever someone said Entschuldigung they were skipping the “En” in it. When I saw “Tscholigum” on OP’s post I thought I could be right about that, but apparently is just a coincidence?

        • @[email protected]
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          64 months ago

          Tschuligom originated on ebay Kleinanzeigen (platform for classifieds, kinda like Craig’s list or FB Marketplace). Its a reasonable assumption, that it was first used by someone who’s first language is not German and who wrote it down like that. So not that far off.

        • @[email protected]
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          74 months ago

          Its quite common to skip the En in “Entschuldigung”. What OP wrote is how its often pronounced.

        • Phoenix
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          34 months ago

          60er Technik? Bist du auf nem Elektromechanischen?

            • Phoenix
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              24 months ago

              Ja. Ich kannte die Bezeichnung halt nicht.

              Ich dachte halt, weil ich bin im Moment noch auf einem E43, welches (meines Wissens nach) in den 60ern gebaut wurde.

              • RanzigFettreduziertOP
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                E43:
                E -> Elektromechanisch
                43 -> Entwicklungsjahr


                Ich war auch mal 6 Jahre auf E43, habs gerne gemacht. Wo bist du gerade, gerne PM.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    Ich entschuldige hier garnix. Ich will später mal mein Raspberry anschließen und endlich mal damit nochmal rumpsielen.

      • Diplomjodler
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        Eyh, Mann, du kannst mich doch hier jetzt nicht hängen lassen!

        Update: nur zehn Minuten Verspätung! St. Ranslitian sei gepriesen!

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    Da stellen sie dir ein Pult mit so vielen wunderbaren taktilen Knöpfen hin - und du bevorzugst das Wisch-Brett. /s