Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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You guys are aware you can filter by language in the settings of your Lemmy account, right?
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I use Google translate to bridge the language barrier and I'm happy to do so. Some of their memes are top class.
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I blocked all the German instances because I couldn't understand them anyway.
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Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn't realize me seeing posts I can't comprehend was so important to these goofballs.
Nimm es nicht persönlich, dass alle Deutschen hier im Faden dich beleidigen oder einfach anfangen, Deutsch zu schreiben, obwohl du Angelsachse bist. Es ist eher eine Art Maimai, auch wenn du natürlich Deutsch lernen solltest und diese Kommentarsektion nun Eigentum der BRD ist.
Sadly I'm not allowed to speak English since it's forbidden by the German-ich_iel-internet-law, also known as Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn.
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Artikuliere auf deutsch, du Sohn einer Fachfrau für Selbstvermarktung
Ich dachte das nennt sich Geschlechtsteilvermietungsfachpersonnachkomme?
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Apparently a solution to the problem offends them lmao, didn't realize me seeing posts I can't comprehend was so important to these goofballs.
That's German humour
You're missing out on the English communities on the German instances then.
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Ja genau.
I had a two year streak on Duolingo and I still get maybe 40% with context clues help.
A lot is inside jokes and playfully bad translations from English. Don't know if that makes it easier or more difficult
It’s probably half an indictment of Duolingo effectiveness and half an indictment of my retention skills.
I took German in high school, and while I understand maybe 60% of the words, 90% of the (what I assume to be critical) context is lost on me
with how the german community is radically translating everything english directly into german, i too tend to need some time figuring out what the heck they mean. lemmy is translated as „let me“ but in one word, same for meme being translated as „me me“. so, oftentimes, i need to translate half the words of a sentence directly into english without taking context into consideration, then try to put them together and reread, if that makes any sense…
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I ended up blocking a bunch of German instances, I don't dislike it or anything I just get nothing out of it lol.
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Swede here dealing with the same realization. Although continental Scandinavian is a Germanic language and share the same ancestry as German, eg proto-Germanic, and thereby shares a lot of similarities, it’s not mutually intelligible. I can how ever often times pick out some words and with some bending and shuffling around get a gist of what’s going on. But only if it’s presented in a meme format.
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As a german Ive seen this meme alot now, but Im completly confused what your experience is actually like.
besides the german c/communities like c/dach and c/deuschland I dont see where youre seeing german everywhere and these dont show in the popular feeds for me
EDIT: As described below, I blocked the whole instance (instead of only the meme community) by accident LOL
I always sort by "Hot" and German posts definitely start to dominate after midnight here.
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I need to not only learn the language but learn the culture so I can understand what I can only assume are fire memes
I never see any German posts, what am I doing wrong?
Not browsing All nearly enough
Go to your profile settings. There should be a list of languages you can select. Depending on the interface you use, Ctrl+Click may do the trick of selecting multiple languages. Then save.