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It’s the German version of me_irl. Stands for “Ich _ im echten Leben” and is a direct translation of the English

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Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)

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it is only me_irl in name though, it is a general meme / conversational community with the obnoxious (and over used to death) in joke that is zangendeutsch.

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“Zangendeutsch” means an aggressive way of removing the influence of english into the german language. But outside of ich_iel we write in english as everyone. Which is obviously a little bit weird, isn’t it?

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It’s not overused if its funny. And it is very funny

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Dutchie who speaks German here, I hadn’t heard of the word ‘Zangendeutsch’ before. I get what it means, but why ‘Zangen’? Does it come from tongs or does it have another meaning? Tongs-German makes no sense to me

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11 points

Happy to help

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5 points

Oh my god, you’re woke!

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Whoops, guess I’m now the enemy of a hundred million Americans

My bad

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Omg I was reading it as “ich lel” not “ich iel” this whole time 😅 thanks

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9 points

I’ve internally been saying “eesh eel”

… which now seems like calling it "me earl’

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It is pretty close on the pronunciation, except ch is not sh. Unless you’re speaking certain regional dialects :)

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Bless you sir or madam, you know not how long I have suffered

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It also incorporates c/memes, basically

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