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[–] Death_Equity 74 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Clearly they are Jewish and their ancestors were part of The Madagascar Plan, where Nazi Germany was forced resettling Jewish people in Madagascar.

They have largely been isolated and weren't able to keep apprised of what happened after their family was resettled. Germany had been really pushing to establish a military base in Antarctica for decades, so the penguins had the understanding that Germany must be well established there by the time they got there.

So that is why Penguins from Madagascar would believe that people in Antarctica would be speaking German.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Lol, have my upvote for a great backstory!

Also, I think the word you want is "apprised", which means "to inform", while "appraised" means "to evaluate".

Lots of homonyms in English, another pair is "weary/wary". Weary means fatigued, wary means cautious.

[–] Death_Equity 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Fixed. Sorry, English is my first language but my autocorrect is aggressive.

Also "appraised" and "apprised" are not homonyms, unless you pronounce them wrong.

[–] Feathercrown 4 points 4 days ago

Same with weary/wary

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This is why I call it autoassume. I call it that so often that it's learned to suggest it when I type in aut

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also "appraised" and "apprised" are not homonyms, unless you pronounce them wrong.

My Texan ass has entered the chat

[–] Death_Equity 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You speak Texan, not American English. Ya'll get your own way of talkin' and power grid.

Best country in America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Y'all get your own way of talkin'

Yay!

and power grid

Fuck!

[–] Death_Equity 3 points 4 days ago

Freedom isn't free brother!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Weary and wary aren't pronounced the same....

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Weren't the penguins from a zoo in the US though? It's been a while since I saw the film.

[–] Death_Equity 10 points 4 days ago

Idk, I was too old and not on the right kind of drugs to watch it when it came out.

If that is true, my explanation still holds up with the change that their parents moved to America from Madagascar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

They are originally from Antarctica and only end up in the zoo in the USA, however this only occurs in the Pinguins of Madagascar, which came out after the original Madagascar, so their origin story could have been thought up differently by the writers of the Madagascar movie than how it happened in the Pinguins of Madagascar movie