ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn
German makes so much more sense when you realize that it’s structured like super old-timey English.
How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.
Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
maymay the meme be with you
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, mantecaYea, Boiii - source
more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
Might be because of local accent as well, I don’t speak a word of spanish but I’d be very surprised if there’s no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia
Watch out ! They’re coming for you !
best i can do is not to leave home, thus, no lifestyle changes needed
Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like “maymays”, you need to spell it “meimeis”)
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
My argentine ears disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEekDZixG0
At 4:10 or so, she says “eme”. That’s the closest I could find to someone from Colombia saying meme. Eh-meh, not aymay. It’s an open E, as in any other Spanish accent.
I think we might just be using different orthography to get the same sound. I hear her say ay-may.
Das memekopf blungt meine hassenpfeffer!
How am I doing?
i dont know what “blungt” and “hassenpfeffer” are
blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
hassenpfeffer is confusing me more my head splits it in “hassen”(hate)/“Hasen”(rabbit) and “Pfeffer” (pepper) which does not make any sensestill think you did a good job meyotch ^^
often people new to german say “mein” instead of “meine” and i cant really explain why but in that context its correctHerr Schraeder in German 101 taught me well.
Well enough that I was able to get three or four exchanges into conversations with random Berliners before they caught on that I was making most of it up.
In the train station, they would just walk a way, a bit disgusted.
In the beer garden, it became instant friendship.
Hasenpfeffer ergibt doch total Sinn: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/da_liegt_der_Hase_im_Pfeffer
🙃
It makes absolutely zero sense and I love it.
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.
Mais qu’est-ce qu’ils disent?
Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?
Mama: Wir haben feuchte Michmichs zu Hause.
Michmichs zu Hause:
Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don’t like that meme format, this represents us:
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
My folks also do something similar. I’d bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it ‘yoyo’ or just ‘meme’?
In polish that would be “jaja” when means “balls” (as in testicles) so no polish people don’t really do that
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, … basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
Esperanto for Lemmy lingua franca! Err… I mean… Lingua esperanta!
me me = michmich
ich lol’d
Amazing-ich.
I’m extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
I would still say I don’t understand written German, and I certainly couldn’t understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.
So thanks for that, ich_iel!
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.
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
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!
