• Arghblarg
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    31 year ago

    Is The The (The band/Matt Johnson) actually called Die Die in Germany?

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      No, but it’s a meme in this community to badly translate everything and anything into German for its comedic effect. The phenomenon is known by the beautiful German compound word “Zangendeutsch”, which translates into “pliers German”, because it manipulates the German language as delicately as only possible with a set of giant pliers.

      • Arghblarg
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        31 year ago

        I was sort of hoping there was a The The album auf Deutsch I’d never heard :)