meme_iel

Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:

No, wait, I don't like that meme format, this represents us:

My folks also do something similar. I'd bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it 'yoyo' or just 'meme'?
- In polish that would be "jaja" when means "balls" (as in testicles) so no polish people don't really do that
- MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, ... basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
Esperanto for Lemmy lingua franca! Err... I mean... Lingua esperanta!

How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.

Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.

more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
- Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
maymay the meme be with you
Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like "maymays", you need to spell it "meimeis")
- Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish "e" sound is most similar to the english sound "ay" as in hay or may but shorter. I've never heard someone make the phoneme "eh" here in colombia.
Donde esta la biblioteca?
\ Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
\ Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
\ Es en bigote grande, perro, manteca
Yea, Boiii - source

me me = michmich

ich lol'd

Amazing-ich.

Oh god I'm starting to learn German from these now....

The only word I didn't understand in the top part was "Michmichs"

Mich = me
Michmich = meme, basically Zangendeutsch, a figurative translation of foreign words to German.
- Relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichtzen.

I'm extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.

My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn't understand half of them

Don't worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
- The way I see it:
  On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
...skill issue?
I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism
- Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we'll just have to "huh" together for a little while longer.

I would still say I don't understand written German, and I certainly couldn't understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.

So thanks for that, ich_iel!

Das memekopf blungt meine hassenpfeffer!

How am I doing?

i dont know what "blungt" and "hassenpfeffer" are
blungt sounds like bringt (bringing)
hassenpfeffer is confusing me more my head splits it in "hassen"(hate)/"Hasen"(rabbit) and "Pfeffer" (pepper) which does not make any sense
still think you did a good job meyotch ^^
often people new to german say "mein" instead of "meine" and i cant really explain why but in that context its correct
- Herr Schraeder in German 101 taught me well.
  Well enough that I was able to get three or four exchanges into conversations with random Berliners before they caught on that I was making most of it up.
  In the train station, they would just walk a way, a bit disgusted.
  In the beer garden, it became instant friendship.
- Hasenpfeffer ergibt doch total Sinn: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/da_liegt_der_Hase_im_Pfeffer
  🙃

ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn

Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?

Mama: Wir haben feuchte Michmichs zu Hause.
- Michmichs zu Hause:
🇩🇪 JD Vance hatte DANK MEMES gemacht.
🇬🇧 JD Vance made DANK MEMES
Dank(e) = Thank(s)(you)

German here. I want to learn another language besides German and English.

Which foreign language has the best memes here on lemmy so I can learn that language?

Mais qu'est-ce qu'ils disent?

You know, in Germany we learn English since elementary school.

Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school

Anyone said “du hast michmich” yet?

Yes
- Wunderbar.

Völkerverständigung! ⚒️

And I can beides sprechen

Guten morgen Deutschland :)

英語とハンガリー語レミングは、よけいまんがやアニメのために日本語に勉強します。