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it is german right? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Discoslugs to c/[email protected]

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These memes are much like health care... As an american I dont get it.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The name of the fish "Stör" is the same as the word "disturb". That alone offers a lot of potential for bad puns.

It is also weirdly common as a part of other words that don't have anything to do with fish. And third, there are parts of words that sound similar to Stör.

Take all those ingredients and you can have a lot of fun with strange word combinations and only native speakers have a realistic chance of understanding.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Distörbing.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Störrible

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A Møøse once bit my sistör...

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink 11 points 11 months ago

The people in charge of hiring the people in charge of firing the people who wrote the subtitles, have been fired.

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[–] SonnyVabitch 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining, it's a nice gestör.

[–] Foggyfroggy 7 points 11 months ago

This is either the bestör wurst

[–] [email protected] 105 points 11 months ago (3 children)

[–] killeronthecorner 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Please speak Dutch in the classroom.

Lol easy bro

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nein, du kriegst dein Scheiß Fahrrad nicht zurück!

[–] pete_the_cat 21 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Even though I studied German for years idioms and sentence structure still throw me off. I tried to translate that looking up only the words I didn't remember and figured "dein Scheiss Fahrrad" was "your shit bike" and Kriegen is to catch (or get I guess in this context), so I was like "No, you catch your shit bike not back" doesn't make sense grammatically in English, so I put it into Google Translate and it translated it as "No, you won't get your damn bike back". Maybe it's because I learned High German and only ever used it in formal settings 95% of the time but it still throws me off, I have a hell of a time trying to understand spoken German because I don't have the time to parse it mentally most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In German is the word order simply different than in English. That stands in simple sentences not too much out, but if I, like now, try a sentence to build, that more complex and harder to understand is, will you that notice or in the worst case so much confused be that you it not understand can will.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Germans have the same problem with english, too. Most of the time, I built the grammar in a sentence like I would do in german.

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[–] captainlezbian 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aber ich bin amerikanische und sprechen zwei sprechen ist schwierig. Können wir englisch amerikanische sprechen bitte?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Tut mit leid, nein

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Rechner sagt nein.

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[–] MBZzZzZzZz 73 points 11 months ago

It's a long störy.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's a type of fish, and they are making word plays with the name of the fish. Why? I'm not sure of the origin of this one. I imagine it's like the beans or the beef stroganoff memes - the origin doesn't matter much at this point.

[–] waigl 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The English word for the fish is "sturgeon".

[–] pete_the_cat 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

🎶 Like a sturgeon, caught for the very first time! 🎶

[–] beccaboben 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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[–] hordenduopol 6 points 11 months ago

Hahahahahahaha

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, that was the prime Minister of Scottland

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I actually started with eels. Aal (=> eel) can be inserted basically everywhere by just stretching the "a" a bit, like "Aalle wissen das" instead of "Alle wissen das" (everyone knows that). As far as I know, this started (or at least became popular) via Jan Böhmermann, he had some jokes about that in his show - the same guy who wrote the "goat fucker"-poem about Erdogan that caused massive diplomatic problems and resulted in changed laws.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Wir servieren heute Aal la carte:

Aalgensalat
HopfenkaltschAale
Pasta Aal dente
KAalter Hund
Pizza CAalzone

Edit: This also works in english:

Something's fishy. I think Russia is trying to interfere with our Eelections

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Danke schön!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Understood... so fisch störganoff

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] glnpf148 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, the bell rings! Oh, der Hund ringt!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm german - UND ICH VERSTEH DAS AUCH NICHT!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Ja das ganze ist ziemlich verStörend.

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[–] Sylver 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love when German memes pop up on my feed. It’s like being given the context clues and visual aid, while the actors speak in Black Speech

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

What an exciting way to write STÖR

[–] WoahWoah 19 points 11 months ago

Wants to know how a meme works, incorrectly uses a meme to express the desire.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Lass dich davon nicht Stören.

[–] bi_tux 13 points 11 months ago

Störgeon

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where are these Memes you are talking about? I only saw the sturgeon'off one. Am I bamboozled?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Go to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

no speaken ze dutch, mein homendoggen

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Stör is a fish

And it's also really prevelant in a lot of German words

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why are the dots above the R?

[–] bhamlin 7 points 11 months ago

That's a rumlaut.

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