Edit: As a fellow Red Sea Pedestrian, (1/64 Jewish by way of my grandfather’s great-grandfather, a Mr. Isaakson, silk merchant in New York City), I can say whatever I want about my people. So take note, downvoting anti-Semites. 😄
I think the real problem is the Britbongs don't embrace it and go full meme like the Aussies do - esky, billabong, bogan, jumbuck, bottle-o, bogan, arvo - virgin UK British English vs chad Aussie English.
Give it a year or two. Once she learns the basic rules, she'll start to see the exceptions. I found a curriculum that teaches the basics (Latin, Greek, Germanic origins and differences), but that can just be more confusing ahahah.
Might be apocryphal... but when we read "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim" in high school we were taught that Conrad chose to write in English specifically because it had roots in so many languages. It made it possible to say more things in more ways than were possible in any of its source languages.
Neat! I can read stuff like Chaucer without any modern translation or guides but farther back than that it starts getting dicey. Anyway, very cool video.
I studied the German language many years ago in high school. It was the definite article that was a problem. In English we have the singular definite article the
In German you have three options for the definitive article to precede the noun: der, die and das which correspond to masculine, feminine and neuter. It is pure memorization. Proper grammar and sentence structure pivot off of that definitive article.
And then you have the compound words which stretch across an entire page.
Finnish would give you a seizure. They have streamlined it a bit. Those forms m/f/n are called declensions, we dont do this in english. Ive heard Finnish has 17
m/n/f are genders. Declensions depend on the role of the world in a sentence (in English you have prepostions and fixed word order instead). The problem is that each gender has different declensions.
My first language is Czech which also has noun genders (and generally more complex grammar). I still find German genders completely illogical and very hard to learn.
There is no similarity between Czech and German noun genders. If they are the same, it is just a random coincidence. It may be even harder for a Czech to learn German genders. Only the nouns that are directly female or male have logical genders in both languages. But German "das Mädchen", a girl, is still neuter, not female.
Because "das Mädchen" was original "das Mägdchen" which is the
diminutive form of "die Magd" [the handmaiden]. The diminutive form mostly uses "das" as it's definite article.
English has also some weird words like "window" from the old german "vindauga" literaly "eye formed hole for the wind".
From Dutch -> Germans the genders are the same for most words, only Dutch has gendered (male/female) and neutral as genders, German has male, female and neutral, so I imagine they have an easier time of German.
That said, learning German pronunciation is much easier than English for non-natives, it mostly follows how it is written (you do need to know if two words are combined as that gets enunciated) whereas in English the spelling is a total mess vs the actual pronunciation.
The official German they teach in most places is more in line with itself too, with English there's British English, American English and then Canadian, Aussie, Kiwi which lean more towards BE but with some borrowed AE elements.
Well, it is certainly harder to learn English pronunciation than German pronunciation (for speaking). From any written German word, even completely unknown, I can produce a sound that a German speaker can recognize. It is straightforward. But it does not work the other way. German has so many dialects, that it is often completely incomprehensible to me when spoken by natives. On the other hand, English dialects are much easier for me to understand. I sometimes have to "calibrate" my brain when I hear some strange English dialect, but it rarely takes more than a few minutes to get used to it.
But it may be a learned skill. I use English professionally on daily basis and I communicate with people from everywhere. I use German only in my free time and I can always speak with Germans in English.
By the way, there are even Czech dialects that I can barely understand (I am a native speaker). And the Czech Republic is a small country.
I think the dialect thing is a native speaker advantage however, but yes, German dialects tend to use a lot of different actual words not just different pronunciations.
English has pretty crazy dialects too for non-native speakers to need to try and interpret, but they're very spread out - the UK has a bunch, the US has some in the south, then there's India, Australia and New Zealand. I know a lot of Germans that really struggle with Australians.
German dialects are concentrated in Europe in three countries mainly and native speakers can generally understand each other - the harder dialects between the countries ofc tend to understand the easier ones but not so much the other way around, but most Germans will understand all the other German dialects within Germany, even if they don't get all the ones up in the mountain villages in Switzerland.
I'm not debating the international usefulness, but I think that's partly independent of difficulty - French used to be the lingua franca and I personally find it horrid, native speakers never seem to pronounce words the same way as you'd expect, they just cut off the endings, and they reuse the same word for a dozen totally different meanings, worse than English does.
Haha I don't think it sounds harsh. Our exposure to hearing German in the US is Hitler screaming while hopped up on speed, cinematic depictions of Hitler screaming, and characters based on Hitler screaming lol
Haha there are only 6, but you have to remember 16 based on noun gender and whether it is nominative, accusative, possessive or dative case: der die das den dem des.
My husband is German and is the funniest man I know -- in an incredibly biting, sarcastic way (think British humor, but on steroids, with a sharper edge). It was one of the things that made me fall in love with him even though I'm frequently the straight man or target of the same.
He does however have his American citizenship, so perhaps the dirt does have some magic properties.
"We absolutely have the best gays." ;) -- but I'm a chick, so straight. PS. and my husband would never get shitty with somebody who likes Jameson, which he also loves (although, the cops and his wife were not often fond of him in partnership with Jameson...I'll just leave it at that and let you use your imagination there).
Oh, it's ok. "Straight man" = in comedies the person who is supposed to act with composure while their partner does/says something outrageous (I have often been that person, especially when mein Mann has been under the influence of Jameson). I'm afraid I tend to use the traditional terms...."straight wamyn/xir/xim/xex" ???
I prefer Jameson (of the two in the often disputed case) when the time calls for Irish whiskey. Has nothing to do with me being Catholic.
When available though, I'll have one single Powers whiskey when I need a bigger tasting drink before dinner.
My husband is obviously not Irish, nor Catholic -- he just liked to have bouts of heavy drinking and Jameson was his preferred beverage -- at least that's what he was always drinking when he went a bit, uh, berserker (also a bit of a favorite activity -- an mighty fun when we were still dating)...his platoon loved him for it. Alas, this sometimes was not so well received by his then pregnant wife (me) nor the authorities.
Germans are very, very funny. It's just buried pretty deep. Also, they think correcting people is helpful. So, take it in the spirit in which it was intended.
Where did I say Israel was our greatest ally? You have poor reading comprehension and a weak mind.
I am against all globalism, all tyrants everywhere. I don’t care what race they were born into and it is a naive oversimplification of the current situation to think if you destroyed one race then the world would improve.
Let me get this straight. The people who basically invented capitalism before the word even existed, whom were persecuted by socialists are secretly trying to make the world communist? The media is only pimping communism because it sells right now and all the boomers are about to be dead. The moment it stops making money your supposed Jewish overlords will be right back to interest instruments.
Communism cannot succeed and any Jewish game theorist knows this, globalist or not. You don't keep the shekels flowing if everyone is poor, Franz Schwarz. Stick to using your ovens to make bread.
Now, does Israel have a very serious national security interest? Yes. Last I checked though a company like Raytheon requires lots of private incentive which you just won't find in communist countries.
Even if you were grammatically incorrect...why would someone get that offended about that? They were likely just offended at the content you posted and wanted to cry about your grammar.
Native shit-poster here. "Roof Rabbit" means "Roof Rabbit in English. Yes, English as in English.
Your comment makes no sense unless implied that native Germans spoke English during WWI and WWII. Now that word would be Dachkaninchen in German.
But even if you were using the correct word Dachkaninchen in this context, nobody would understand it, because I used Google translate and it translate back as "Badger Rabbit."
I really despise the German practiSe of eating German cats...
"roof rabbit" is the english translation provided in the source material regarding the post war famines...and yes English is English Captain Obvious. 🙄
Kek. I am glad he does not know how we use German words in Czech language. We often use them on purpose as a derogatory version of the original Czech word.
I think hes saying that he speaks German natively, not that he is a German native. Besides, no one is such a cunt when helping a secondary speaker speak their primary language. Normal, non-bitch people are happy when you attempt to learn their language or incorporate their words in your daily life.
I do recommend you watch the movie Das Boot. Its an excellent WWII movie about a Nazi submarine trying to survive. Its one of the best movies I've seen in my life.
Think of it like someone in another country trying to speak English. Even if they butcher what they are saying, they are showing that they appreciate our culture and are willing to try and incorporate our words in their daily life. Doesn't that sound nice to you? It should, because that's really happening. I don't know too many Germans, but they have always been tickled at the little I know. Same if I go into a Chinese restaurant and speak just a very little Mandarin, their eyes light up and get a big smile on their face. It makes them happy they their culture and language is appreciated enough for someone to actually learn it.
I've been yelling/typing DAS BOOT twenty years ago when we used to play FPS games on private servers in the 90s.
Yeah, I know that Das Boot means The Boat in naziese. I have the movie too (on VHS no less). But it was just fun to yell it over comms when asking the server admin to boot a bot, cheater or tker.
Lol a personal friend and mentor of mine moved to Germany with his German wife and children years ago to be closer to her family. After a couple years he was visiting and I picked him up from the airport. I think someone must have cut me off in traffic as I mutter “ahhh fucking douche canoe”. Now, those words alone to the average American might make someone chuckle. Maybe. If they’re apt to laugh easily and had not heard that expression before. But my friend/mentor started cracking up. And I asked what was so funny. He basically explained Germans don’t joke like we do - Funny play on words/ expressions. He said even if you literally translated the word douche and canoe together Germans would have no idea. And he finished with how he missed that about the US. It just made me appreciate being an American even more :)
If someone said “they get the boat” I would still understand what they mean.
One nice thing about “understanding language” is also you can understand the context of what someone is saying without having it be absolutely spelled out for you or using something that has been explicitly codified
I despise the practice of non-english speakers using British spelling to correct an American.
I did nazi that either. Did Jew?
Why would Hebe concerned? He can go fly a kike.
Edit: As a fellow Red Sea Pedestrian, (1/64 Jewish by way of my grandfather’s great-grandfather, a Mr. Isaakson, silk merchant in New York City), I can say whatever I want about my people. So take note, downvoting anti-Semites. 😄
You remind me of the dentist from Seinfeld who switched to Judaism so he can use jew jokes lol.
Are you an anti-dentite???
Yes that episode haha. I love Seinfeld. They dont make comedy like they used to.
Jude think he'd know better.
Wehr macht weiter?
Centre bugs me a lot
Freedom / Cuck
What that guy said about two great nations divided by a common language.
(Attributed to different people)
I think the real problem is the Britbongs don't embrace it and go full meme like the Aussies do - esky, billabong, bogan, jumbuck, bottle-o, bogan, arvo - virgin UK British English vs chad Aussie English.
I love his response tho just doubled down lmao
British are certified cunts.
LMAOOO
The German language is already nonsensical bullshit anyways.
English speaker calling German nonsensical bullshit
insert spiderman pointing meme
Tomb, comb, and bomb all have the same vowel, and that vowel is pronounced differently for each one.
LOL. Makes homeschooling fun. It's because . . . I think it's time for a Spanish lesson.
Dios mio!
¡Dios mío!
You're welcome.
As I've also found out by teaching my daughter to read this year. I'm thankful she hasn't asked "Why?"
Give it a year or two. Once she learns the basic rules, she'll start to see the exceptions. I found a curriculum that teaches the basics (Latin, Greek, Germanic origins and differences), but that can just be more confusing ahahah.
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
You'll love this poem from a Frenchman pointing all this out. Try it out loud, its fairly difficult
Really witty poem
You might like this song, made to show Americans what American English sounds like to non English speakers
https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8
Ok bomber, whatever. Gonna go comb now.
I didnt realise this. Thanks.
In theory you could add diacritical markers over the vowels like macrons and dots.
I was just explaining to my daughter how English is just a mixture of all the other languages are this point. It's come a long way from it's origins.
Absolutely!
Might be apocryphal... but when we read "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim" in high school we were taught that Conrad chose to write in English specifically because it had roots in so many languages. It made it possible to say more things in more ways than were possible in any of its source languages.
It's interesting to see the evolution and how far back you can understand: https://youtu.be/N1oZf-OxxEY
Neat! I can read stuff like Chaucer without any modern translation or guides but farther back than that it starts getting dicey. Anyway, very cool video.
English grammar is fine. Am a native Russian-speaker, fight me all you want, faggit.
We need C to spell ECKS! Otherwise we’d need to get rid X
It is not! It's a very logical and straightforward language. The Germans have no sense of humor though.
German humor is no laughing matter dude.
I just flew in from Berlin and boy are my arms tired.
Because I Sieg Heiled the entire time.
We’ll cut off your johnson!
Learning German is however much harder than learning English. I do not see much logic there. For example noun genders are completely nonsensical.
I studied the German language many years ago in high school. It was the definite article that was a problem. In English we have the singular definite article the
In German you have three options for the definitive article to precede the noun: der, die and das which correspond to masculine, feminine and neuter. It is pure memorization. Proper grammar and sentence structure pivot off of that definitive article.
And then you have the compound words which stretch across an entire page.
Finnish would give you a seizure. They have streamlined it a bit. Those forms m/f/n are called declensions, we dont do this in english. Ive heard Finnish has 17
m/n/f are genders. Declensions depend on the role of the world in a sentence (in English you have prepostions and fixed word order instead). The problem is that each gender has different declensions.
That's right been years since latin. Nomitive, genative,dative,accusitive ,ablative. I think thats it
Yep. "Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung" Try that one out.
I will have to pay my Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherungsrechnung soon.
Many other languages have gendered nouns, especially the Romances and yes it is weird learning if English is your first language
My first language is Czech which also has noun genders (and generally more complex grammar). I still find German genders completely illogical and very hard to learn.
But the thing is you don't have to memorize the genders of all german nouns.
You only need to know the most ridiculous and common ones that change from your native language. So your noun-gender list is much smaller.
There is no similarity between Czech and German noun genders. If they are the same, it is just a random coincidence. It may be even harder for a Czech to learn German genders. Only the nouns that are directly female or male have logical genders in both languages. But German "das Mädchen", a girl, is still neuter, not female.
Because "das Mädchen" was original "das Mägdchen" which is the diminutive form of "die Magd" [the handmaiden]. The diminutive form mostly uses "das" as it's definite article.
English has also some weird words like "window" from the old german "vindauga" literaly "eye formed hole for the wind".
From Dutch -> Germans the genders are the same for most words, only Dutch has gendered (male/female) and neutral as genders, German has male, female and neutral, so I imagine they have an easier time of German.
That said, learning German pronunciation is much easier than English for non-natives, it mostly follows how it is written (you do need to know if two words are combined as that gets enunciated) whereas in English the spelling is a total mess vs the actual pronunciation.
The official German they teach in most places is more in line with itself too, with English there's British English, American English and then Canadian, Aussie, Kiwi which lean more towards BE but with some borrowed AE elements.
Well, it is certainly harder to learn English pronunciation than German pronunciation (for speaking). From any written German word, even completely unknown, I can produce a sound that a German speaker can recognize. It is straightforward. But it does not work the other way. German has so many dialects, that it is often completely incomprehensible to me when spoken by natives. On the other hand, English dialects are much easier for me to understand. I sometimes have to "calibrate" my brain when I hear some strange English dialect, but it rarely takes more than a few minutes to get used to it.
But it may be a learned skill. I use English professionally on daily basis and I communicate with people from everywhere. I use German only in my free time and I can always speak with Germans in English.
By the way, there are even Czech dialects that I can barely understand (I am a native speaker). And the Czech Republic is a small country.
I think the dialect thing is a native speaker advantage however, but yes, German dialects tend to use a lot of different actual words not just different pronunciations.
English has pretty crazy dialects too for non-native speakers to need to try and interpret, but they're very spread out - the UK has a bunch, the US has some in the south, then there's India, Australia and New Zealand. I know a lot of Germans that really struggle with Australians.
German dialects are concentrated in Europe in three countries mainly and native speakers can generally understand each other - the harder dialects between the countries ofc tend to understand the easier ones but not so much the other way around, but most Germans will understand all the other German dialects within Germany, even if they don't get all the ones up in the mountain villages in Switzerland.
I'm not debating the international usefulness, but I think that's partly independent of difficulty - French used to be the lingua franca and I personally find it horrid, native speakers never seem to pronounce words the same way as you'd expect, they just cut off the endings, and they reuse the same word for a dozen totally different meanings, worse than English does.
Haha..insert meme about telling someone you love them...but saying it in german so that it scares them..because life is scary
Haha I don't think it sounds harsh. Our exposure to hearing German in the US is Hitler screaming while hopped up on speed, cinematic depictions of Hitler screaming, and characters based on Hitler screaming lol
My grandmother was Bavarian. German is one of those languages that sounds very different spoken by a man or a woman. I find Japanese is like that too
NANI???
Don't they have like 12 different ways to say "the"?
Haha there are only 6, but you have to remember 16 based on noun gender and whether it is nominative, accusative, possessive or dative case: der die das den dem des.
I'd chose to use accusative only if I were learning the language just to sound like a maniac
Chaotic and diabolical
Even more unpopular: being easy is a reason of its success in spreading out and becoming a lingua franca.
Glove is literally "hand shoes" not hand socks
It's more important to change the way we teach and learn basic mathematics. /s
My husband is German and is the funniest man I know -- in an incredibly biting, sarcastic way (think British humor, but on steroids, with a sharper edge). It was one of the things that made me fall in love with him even though I'm frequently the straight man or target of the same.
He does however have his American citizenship, so perhaps the dirt does have some magic properties.
His grammar is a bit stilted though.
"We absolutely have the best gays." ;) -- but I'm a chick, so straight. PS. and my husband would never get shitty with somebody who likes Jameson, which he also loves (although, the cops and his wife were not often fond of him in partnership with Jameson...I'll just leave it at that and let you use your imagination there).
Don’t be tricked. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from 90’s chat rooms it’s that everyone on the internet is a dude.
This is absolutely true dude
Funny exchange
Oh, it's ok. "Straight man" = in comedies the person who is supposed to act with composure while their partner does/says something outrageous (I have often been that person, especially when mein Mann has been under the influence of Jameson). I'm afraid I tend to use the traditional terms...."straight wamyn/xir/xim/xex" ???
I prefer Jameson (of the two in the often disputed case) when the time calls for Irish whiskey. Has nothing to do with me being Catholic.
When available though, I'll have one single Powers whiskey when I need a bigger tasting drink before dinner.
My husband is obviously not Irish, nor Catholic -- he just liked to have bouts of heavy drinking and Jameson was his preferred beverage -- at least that's what he was always drinking when he went a bit, uh, berserker (also a bit of a favorite activity -- an mighty fun when we were still dating)...his platoon loved him for it. Alas, this sometimes was not so well received by his then pregnant wife (me) nor the authorities.
You married a German, you ARE gay!
He's an American now, so...I married an American.
Exactly. Germans are actually hilarious people.
Germans are very, very funny. It's just buried pretty deep. Also, they think correcting people is helpful. So, take it in the spirit in which it was intended.
They do have better english than some native speakees
Hey, hey German humor is no laughing matter.
Yeah, they played some great jokes on Europe, didn't they. Still trying to pull one off now.
Did you know that German is the largest ethnicity in the U.S.?
And?
Guess why you learn English and we don't learn German.
He didn’t kill only Jews, dimwit. If you think Hitler’s national SOCIALISM was the right side then you are on the wrong website.
You won't get through to them. They are incapable of reason, analysis, and critical thought due to most likely a crippling cognitive disability.
Where did I say Israel was our greatest ally? You have poor reading comprehension and a weak mind.
I am against all globalism, all tyrants everywhere. I don’t care what race they were born into and it is a naive oversimplification of the current situation to think if you destroyed one race then the world would improve.
Happy Hanukkah!
Let me get this straight. The people who basically invented capitalism before the word even existed, whom were persecuted by socialists are secretly trying to make the world communist? The media is only pimping communism because it sells right now and all the boomers are about to be dead. The moment it stops making money your supposed Jewish overlords will be right back to interest instruments.
Communism cannot succeed and any Jewish game theorist knows this, globalist or not. You don't keep the shekels flowing if everyone is poor, Franz Schwarz. Stick to using your ovens to make bread.
Now, does Israel have a very serious national security interest? Yes. Last I checked though a company like Raytheon requires lots of private incentive which you just won't find in communist countries.
Oh nein you didn't!
was looking for this assho ..ty
German language is Arabic now.
Londonistan
rather Turkish
"Jokes?! Not in my Motherland!!!"
Even if you were grammatically incorrect...why would someone get that offended about that? They were likely just offended at the content you posted and wanted to cry about your grammar.
Rather “master racey” of them if you ask me!
Like Master RAYCISSSS or something.
No, they had it long before. They weren't even a country 150 years ago.
For getting their ass kicked so hard and so many times that seems a little strange to this stupid yankee
>superiority
*inferiority complex resulting in a crippling superiority complex.
Because das ist was Germans do🤣!
This is not proper jerman!!!!
Dis ist da German tree 👌!
*der German tree
And had to be a raging turd about it with grammar that wasn't truly sterling.
That's funny.
If your name is Schrodinger, your cat is both alive and dead simultaneously. I know zis because ze German schools are zuperiof!
Lol scrolling down this thread and comments I feel like you a fellow Anon tryin hard to keep it clean for TDW.
Lol have a (you)
One. At least post WWI and WWII. Germans called them "roof rabbits" and ate them.
Native shit-poster here. "Roof Rabbit" means "Roof Rabbit in English. Yes, English as in English.
Your comment makes no sense unless implied that native Germans spoke English during WWI and WWII. Now that word would be Dachkaninchen in German.
But even if you were using the correct word Dachkaninchen in this context, nobody would understand it, because I used Google translate and it translate back as "Badger Rabbit."
I really despise the German practiSe of eating German cats...
I'll let you sink about it.
"roof rabbit" is the english translation provided in the source material regarding the post war famines...and yes English is English Captain Obvious. 🙄
-Hitler Kojima
Das Boot is also the title of the best German film I've ever seen. Highly recommended for anyone who hasn't seen it!
Idk about "the best" but it's definitely in Ordnung.
lmao he needed to write in paragraphs to explain in detail, how thorough
I see the snaggle-toothed british trolls are busy today. After mocking germans, next on their to-do list is to start mocking russians.
Meanwhile, their capital, Londonistan, is becoming the gaping butthole of the Western world.
They've been mocking Russians for quite some time. Then crying when buttfucked by them. Then stabbing them in the back. And so on.
“Ich bin ein douchebag!” - Albgardis
Aktshually, it’s “Ich bin ein Douchebag.” Nouns are always capitalized in german
*douche Tasche.
Kek. I am glad he does not know how we use German words in Czech language. We often use them on purpose as a derogatory version of the original Czech word.
In Russian as well. Although, I don't think it's derogatory, just humorously. Same with Yiddish.
Your response to the grammar nazi, priceless! I laughed way too hard.
I did na zi that coming
I did nazi that coming
I think hes saying that he speaks German natively, not that he is a German native. Besides, no one is such a cunt when helping a secondary speaker speak their primary language. Normal, non-bitch people are happy when you attempt to learn their language or incorporate their words in your daily life.
I do recommend you watch the movie Das Boot. Its an excellent WWII movie about a Nazi submarine trying to survive. Its one of the best movies I've seen in my life.
Think of it like someone in another country trying to speak English. Even if they butcher what they are saying, they are showing that they appreciate our culture and are willing to try and incorporate our words in their daily life. Doesn't that sound nice to you? It should, because that's really happening. I don't know too many Germans, but they have always been tickled at the little I know. Same if I go into a Chinese restaurant and speak just a very little Mandarin, their eyes light up and get a big smile on their face. It makes them happy they their culture and language is appreciated enough for someone to actually learn it.
Here is a link to a review about the movie if you're interested:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/das_boot
Ja wirklich!
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/31641465/ja-wirklich.jpg
newsmax got the boat
back to Palestine
What if it got the Stiefel? HAH! What are they gonna do now with a single Stiefel?
What a faggot
I've been yelling/typing DAS BOOT twenty years ago when we used to play FPS games on private servers in the 90s.
Yeah, I know that Das Boot means The Boat in naziese. I have the movie too (on VHS no less). But it was just fun to yell it over comms when asking the server admin to boot a bot, cheater or tker.
DAS BOOOOOOT!!!
Haha copy pasta. Lol.
Guess they had plenty of time to concentrate grammar at camp.
You crack me up man! MAGA
Have all the keks!
Did he mean "congratulations?"
We should all thank him Nein! times.
Lol a personal friend and mentor of mine moved to Germany with his German wife and children years ago to be closer to her family. After a couple years he was visiting and I picked him up from the airport. I think someone must have cut me off in traffic as I mutter “ahhh fucking douche canoe”. Now, those words alone to the average American might make someone chuckle. Maybe. If they’re apt to laugh easily and had not heard that expression before. But my friend/mentor started cracking up. And I asked what was so funny. He basically explained Germans don’t joke like we do - Funny play on words/ expressions. He said even if you literally translated the word douche and canoe together Germans would have no idea. And he finished with how he missed that about the US. It just made me appreciate being an American even more :)
Looks like Reddit is leaking
Ok..this thread is actually kinda funny. Responses were worth the click...lolz
German speaker seem to have not watched Beerfest and Das Boot can also refer to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xEPXT9eEM
Which actually is patterned after a boot.
Somebody got their schnitzel in a sauerbraten.
>schnitzel in a sauerbraten
That made me hungry!
In Australian and British English, 'practise' is the verb and 'practice' is the noun. In American English, 'practice' is both the verb and the noun.
https://i.gifer.com/2ZD.gif
Now that's funny right there.
But he's also technically correct, as Germans love to be.
You da real MVP, RealJameson.
Americans > Hessians
DIE MUPPETS
lol
Time for me to assfart this conversation...
This is fire!
Das Boot is a kick-ass film if ever I saw one.
Read the book instead.
I use the word krankenwagen in casual conversation at least once a day
It's German for ambulance
Ambulance. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with the Kraut. He/she was pedantic, but this is just mean-spirited.
Well, I hope you enjoyed your fun then. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
Aww, you need your safety blankey?
If someone said “they get the boat” I would still understand what they mean.
One nice thing about “understanding language” is also you can understand the context of what someone is saying without having it be absolutely spelled out for you or using something that has been explicitly codified
lol, he was mixing german and english to say "That Boot". silly deutchlander.
We'll take Germans seriously when they finally win a World War until then they can Fuck off. Germany is becoming a third world shithole anyway...
>becoming
It was becoming when they imported a shitton of turks, it's been now for a few decades.