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

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

        • @pete_the_cat
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          211 year ago

          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.

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            211 year ago

            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.

              • @[email protected]
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                It is really not easy such to write, I must with violence the part of my brain suppress that the English grammar knows.

          • @[email protected]
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            171 year ago

            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.

            • @pete_the_cat
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              51 year ago

              Well to be fair, even native English speakers have problems with English. It’s a clusterfuck of a language. Learning German made me realize that more than I already did.

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            Catch would be “fangen” “kriegen/bekommen” is get.

              • Johanno
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                21 year ago

                It says to catch smb. Would be “jemanden kriegen” but important to know is that “jemanden kriegen” is basically the same as “jemanden fangen” I know weird, the context is important. Bur the first translation of “kriegen” is to get sth.

    • @captainlezbian
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      111 year ago

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

    • @pete_the_cat
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      31 year ago

      Ich kann nicht jemand verstehen!/s

  • @[email protected]
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    701 year ago

    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
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      341 year ago

      The English word for the fish is “sturgeon”.

      • @pete_the_cat
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        491 year ago

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

            • @beccaboben
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              161 year ago

              I tried my hand on one of those AI image makers… Almost got kicked off twice because apparently “like-a-virgin-era Madonna but a sturgeon” is considered inappropriate somehow.

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                Probably because of the word “virgin”

                Also I was thinking more about “Like a surgeon” which is Weird Al’s parody

        • Bernie Ecclestoned
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          61 year ago

          First minister, only one prime minister in the UK, although they are temporary in nature, sometimes we have 3 in one summer

        • @RainyRat
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          31 year ago

          Just after Salmon(d). Presumably, the next one will be the well-known Scottish politician Davey Coelacanth.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      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.

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        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

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I started the Aalphabet in my family. Every time we encounter a word that matches, it is added. It’s geniaal!

  • FQQD
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    311 year ago

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

  • @Sylver
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    261 year ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I speak the black language myself but I have no clue what the duck happened with all those memes.

  • @WoahWoah
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    191 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

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

  • newIdentity
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    101 year ago

    Stör is a fish

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

    • Billegh
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      71 year ago

      That’s a rumlaut.