nottheengineer ( @nottheengineer@feddit.de ) 92•7 months agoich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 31•7 months agoIs that true? My dear mister singing club!
Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 25•7 months agoMy English is so good, that makes me nobody so quickly after!
clifftiger ( @clifftiger@feddit.de ) 6•7 months agoClassic english for runaways.
Cyclo ( @Cyclo@lemmy.ml ) 4•7 months agoMust you give your mustard to everything?
WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) 1•7 months agoThat honestly sounds like it would be hilarious.
Does it translate well back into English enough to get the joke? Instantnudeln ( @ErKaf@feddit.de ) 5•7 months agoYes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn’t actually make sense in German, but that’s part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.
As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.
Gork ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months agoThe English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like “chop a tree down” followed immediately be “chop a tree up”.
Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 4•7 months agoHacke einen Baum runter.
Hacke einen Baum hoch.
Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•7 months agoKleine Hiebe fällen große Eichen!
fatzgebum ( @fatzgebum@feddit.de ) 62•7 months agoIt’s not even easy to understand ich_iel as a native speaker. They use an extreme form of internet slang only understood by a handful of people.
Instantnudeln ( @ErKaf@feddit.de ) 57•7 months agoDies ist ein klarer Fall eines Geschicklichkeitsproblems.
NegativeLookBehind ( @NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ) 21•7 months agoJajajajaja
Did I just say “yes” a bunch of times, or was I laughing? No idea.
RobotZap10000 ( @RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ) 18•7 months agoAgreeing in German, laughing in Spanish, I think.
FQQD ( @FQQD@feddit.de ) English8•7 months agosounds about right. no idea why the spanish have a stroke every time they laugh
Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 17•7 months agoJa ja heißt leck mich am Arsch!
shrippen ( @shrippen@feddit.de ) 7•7 months agoOlles klaa maistaa
Sowhatever ( @Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•7 months agoWhen German and Finnish merge…
callyral [he/they] ( @callyral@pawb.social ) English18•7 months agoich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch
(pretty sure that says “i speak a bit of german”)
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 15•7 months agoRyan, is that you?
Sorry, different American
RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•7 months agoOh, hey Jim!
ɐɥO ( @Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) 14•7 months agoSPRICH
Generous1146 ( @Generous1146@beehaw.org ) 9•7 months agoMelone
aradgus ( @aradgus@lemmy.ml ) 5•7 months agound
Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•7 months agotritt
Ravi ( @Ravi@feddit.de ) 11•7 months agoGood that you chose this community, otherwise you’d have a request to change it to ich❌🇩🇪😂iel
far_university1990 ( @far_university1990@feddit.de ) 9•7 months ago𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
e0qdk ( @e0qdk@kbin.social ) 7•7 months agoI’ve seen those posts too, but can’t speak German. What does “ich_iel” actually mean?
30p87 ( @30p87@feddit.de ) 13•7 months agoich = me
iel = im echten leben = in real lifeso ich_iel = me_irl
ragepewp ( @ragepewp@kbin.social ) 4•7 months agoSchroedingersPat* ftfy
Microplasticbrain ( @Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months agoI just block em lol
sour ( @sour@kbin.social ) 1•7 months agowhat’s an alter
b00m ( @b00m@kbin.social ) 12•7 months agoAlter, wo is mein Auto
Sowhatever ( @Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•7 months agoA northern oida.
From what I looked up it means something like dude or mate. It’s also used when expressing suprise? If native speaker has better insight I’d appreciate it.
Flumsy ( @Flumsy@feddit.de ) 10•7 months agoThe English “Yo” is a really good translation. You can use it to express surprise (“Alter! Wtf!” - “Yo! Wtf!”) or to address someone (“Alter, was geht?” - “Yo, whats up?”).
“Yo” really is the best translation I can think of.
FQQD ( @FQQD@feddit.de ) English9•7 months agoIt’s pretty much just “dude”, vor talking with friends. Other widely used versions include “Digga” and “Bruder”
edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 5•7 months agoOmg you just can’t go say the d word. /s
FQQD ( @FQQD@feddit.de ) English6•7 months agoOk digga dann eben nicht
Lileath ( @Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•7 months agoThe literal meaning is a really informal “old one” but can also mean “age” in another context. It is used exactly like you described.
_MusicJunkie ( @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org ) 4•7 months agoLearn Austrian German instead, all you need is the dialect version of Alter: Oida
SchoopDaWhoop ( @SchoopDaWhoop@feddit.de ) 3•7 months agoOr if you go further north you need to use Alder
Instantnudeln ( @ErKaf@feddit.de ) 6•7 months agoAlter, das kann doch jetzt nicht wahr sein.