Those new-fangled memes are watered-down trash, though. Vintage memes slapped harder.
Oh nice I didn’t know this existed and that activated a dormant part of my brain, now I can’t stop. Thanks Obama!
Oh god I’m starting to learn German from these now…
The only word I didn’t understand in the top part was “Michmichs”
Mich = me
Michmich = meme, basically Zangendeutsch, a figurative translation of foreign words to German.
Relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichtzen.
Anyone said “du hast michmich” yet?
Yes
Wunderbar.
Völkerverständigung! ⚒️
I’m sorry, michmichs? you don’t really say that, do you? it’s not like the word comes from “me”, its just a play on “genes”.
you guys just say “memes” right?
… right?
No we don’t say that and I was completely confused until I read the english line.
You know, in Germany we learn English since elementary school.
Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school
Guten morgen Deutschland :)
Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
German here. I want to learn another language besides German and English.
Which foreign language has the best memes here on lemmy so I can learn that language?
Also dschermän here. I want to get into Spanish because so many countries speak some variation of it, French would also be cool, although I’ll never sound as slippery smooth as those mfs.
Native English speaker who’s been trying to learn French formally and informally for years and every time I open my mouth I just feel like I’m taking a chainsaw to the language as a whole.
Slippery mfs indeed.
Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?
Mama: Wir haben feuchte Michmichs zu Hause.
Michmichs zu Hause:
Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.
me me = michmich
ich lol’d
Amazing-ich.
I’m extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
And I can beides sprechen
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn’t understand half of them
Don’t worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
The way I see it:
On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use
literalletteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with “michmichs”.…skill issue?
I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism
Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we’ll just have to “huh” together for a little while longer.
