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Damn Germans and their enigmatic memes

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Ah, du kriegst es hin noch Deutsch zu lernen.

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ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.

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That honestly sounds like it would be hilarious.
Does it translate well back into English enough to get the joke?

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Yes, 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.

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The English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like “chop a tree down” followed immediately be “chop a tree up”.

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My English is so good, that makes me nobody so quickly after!

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Classic english for runaways.

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It’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.

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Dies ist ein klarer Fall eines Geschicklichkeitsproblems.

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Some skills can be purchased!

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Sad that your translator has chosen “problem” instead of “issue”.

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Good that you chose this community, otherwise you’d have a request to change it to ich❌🇩🇪😂iel

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SPRICH

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DEUTSCH

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DU

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