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yeah-thats-probably-it · 1 month ago

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at least a third of the time when i’m trying to translate an unfamiliar german word on my phone iOS gives me this stupid „schwedisch wird derzeit nicht zum übersetzen unterstützt“ message (oder norwegisch (bokmål) oder was) and i have to manually change the translation language and it’s like,,, why don’t you try checking for translations among the languages that ARE zum übersetzen unterstützt champ, the results might surprise you

#the word was bröselig if you care to know #it means crumbly in german and fragile in swedish #apparently #this kind of makes sense. you can imagine the common etymological origin here #like if something crumbles easily you could say that it’s fragile #point still stands

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bluebudgie · 1 year ago

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finding a youtuber/streamer who speaks in your own local dialect is so funny like. so thats what i sound like huh

#tbh saying 'dialect' sounds like an exaggeration bc it's really close to standard high german #but there's a few quirks in some common words #every other german youtuber i watch is from goddamn bavaria. and they speak without strong dialect but you can still hear it in some words #so hearing someone who sounds like me is giving me whiplash

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im2tired4usernames · 6 months ago

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Ugh I was excited for today until I found out I'd have to spend it with people that actively make me hate being alive hate the future and drain me off all energy physically mentally spiritually like a vampire I can't stand to be around her she is the definition of stupidity and even then that's generous as fuck this bitch has filled her brain with so much garbage I watch her brain cells die at alarming rates every single time she uses her vocal cords her giggles make me want to jam a sewing needle into my ear repeatedly so I can never have to hear it again its a friendly reminder that my parents decisions this time my dad's constantly makes me want to die

#i cant even shes just so dangerously stupid #she thinks energy drinks with natural caffeine are safe to give people who have been told by doctor doing take caffeine with thia meds #ahe thinks of a child is CHOCKING to lie them face down n rub their back #she has the evangelical woman voice worse then women I've met n that cult ahe giggles constantly and behaves like the stereotype lil german #boy just got a lollipop over.... everyone and everything whe acts likw an 11 year old I just got the first boyfriend and all they could talk #is how perfect their boyfriend is and they're so pretty good for that I pulled a boyfriend is and it's like a God thing that they met how #SOOOOOOOOOO in love while constantly nonstop touching ahe has to be touching him her hand on his thigh her atm linked with his her heaf on #his chest she has to be in her lap they make out all over the place IT'S DISGUSTING AND EMBARRASSING STOP SWAPPING SPIT #she started a i. hwr words 'love diary of their love journey' they hadn't been dateing 2 months her kids are spoiled fake Instagram bitches #with such shitty views on politics SHE'S A TRUMP FAN GIRL SHENLOVES TRUMP MY DAD BROUGHT IN A TRUMPIE #there's so much i cant even say because even admitting it on tumblr is too embarrassing i wanted.to.likw her i liked her the first day but #THE MORE I GET TO KNOW GET THE MORE N MORE N MISS RED FKAGS #she threw away all my siblings clothes school books toys uniforms for sports their in toys i bought them that week make up jewelry #in the disguise of helping clean house #while i was at the hospital the kids call me in tears i call her beg her to wait and nope.ahe didn't i found the bags by the curb i brought #my dad sided with hwr because 'she didn't mean any harm she didn't know sje was throwing them away'#my mom hasn't bsen dead a year he started dating right after ahe died #hes talking about marrying this woman this woman who has never had an honest educated thought once in her life #WHO ASLO SPEMDA MONEY LIKE A DRUNKEN SAILOR AHE CAME FROM A WITCH FAMILY HER LAST TWO HUSBANDA WERE TOUCH SHE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMMON #SHE SPENDS LIKE SHE STILL HAS MONEY WHEN SHE DOSE NOT AND IT'S LIKE YOU DID NOT JUST SPEND OVER 180 DOLLARS N PASTRIES GOD #SHES SO FUCKIN STUPID AND EVERY HOLIDAY SINCE MY MOM DIED WVERY FAMILY GWT TOGETHER BECAUSE WE DON'T TALK OR.DO ANYTHING WITH MOM'S SIDE #OF THE FAMILY ANYMORE SHE'S THERE EVERY WINGLE MOTHER FUCKIN WEEKEND SHES HERE I'M EXHAUSTED SHES PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY DRAINING TO BE ARO #OUND SHES LIKE IF SOMEONE TOOK A GOLDEN RETRIEVER ON A DIET OF JUST FUCKIN COCAINE LITTLE GERMAN BOY WITH LOLLY AND CRUELLA DEVILLE AND FUSE #THEN TOOK A STRAW AND DRANK ALL THE SMARTS OUT OF THAT BEING #UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGH MY DADS GOIN TO NARRY RHIA BITCH SHES GOIN TO TRY TO BE A MOTHER TO ME AND MY SIBLINGS AND THEY'RE GOIN TO #be so fucked up because her kids are not ok SHE FUCKED THEM OVER BAD SHE HAS FOUR KIDS ALL ADULTS THEY'RE JUST WOW #I HATE MY LIFE I HATE WHAY FUTURE MY FAMILY IS GOIN TO BE THE GOOD THINGS IS I WON'T HAVE TO STAY I CAN GO N MAKE A NEW ONE WITH MY WIFE #FOR ME BUT MY SIBLINGS ARE FUCKED AND ANYTIME I WANT TO VISIT MY FAMILY YANDERE GOLDEN RETRIEVER BITCH WILL BE THERE WORMING HWR WAY IN #SHES CONSTANTLY CALLING N TEXTING MY DAD NONSTOP OF SHE'S NOT NEXT TO HIM AND IF HE CAN'T RESPOND INSTANT SHE FREAKS OUT N BUGS ME

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hrast-ika · 7 months ago

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Ahhh a fellow soul who grew up with the wonders of SuperRTL xD

yup haha i owe that program my basic understanding of german

#it's not my first language #most of my friends had cartoon network and watched stuff in english but we didn't have that #plus i am not saying that i could understand a lot of german #more like there are a few phrases and words that god baked into my brain bc they were common in the cartoons i watched

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aristoteliancomplacency · 1 year ago

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Phone: oh? You didn’t want me to autocorrect ‘Were’ to ‘We’re’? In fact when I did that you went back and deleted it and typed ‘Were’ again? And when I corrected it again you went back and changed it again? And then waited for me to suggest you meant ‘we’re’, told me no, and then got frustrated when, after you finished typing the next word I changed it to ‘We’re’ again?

But are you absolutely positive you didn’t meant ‘we’re’ bc I’m preeeeetty sure you really did mean ‘We’re’.

#one day I will yeet this thing out a window #it’s in one of it’s phases right now of bring reaaaaally confused about what Language it’s in #And is trying to autocorrect every. single. fucking. noun. to have a Capital letter #and randomly corrects to German words #what is even the point of having two separate language keyboards if it cannot keep them separate #I know This is like #Common to everyone using more than one language on their phone #but it really doesn’t get complained about enough #<_<

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sadpurpleblood · 1 year ago

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Being called easy to care for a few times is nice but when thats your only character trait yeah uhh you failed life.

#by that i mean i failed life #also yeah ive been called that alot. probably cuz thats a single word in german so its more common #(that word being pflegeleicht (“care-easy”))#sadposting i think idk anymore #ramble

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tragedykery · 2 years ago

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just remembered when I tried to translate the first chapter of the priory of the orange tree like a year and a half ago but gave up not even a quarter of the way through and tbh I get why it hasn’t been translated to dutch because even translating the title and making it sound Not Horrible is pretty much impossible

#de priorij van de sinaasappelboom??? absolutely horrid #even going the same direction as the german translation and translating it as de orde van de geheime boom (the order of the secret tree)#is terrible (I wonder if the priory is actually translated like that in the book itself too?)#elli rambles #the other thing I struggled with is that the original book uses ‘its’ as it is. a common english word #while dutch doesn’t have a word for that. we do have the word ‘it’ just not the possessive adjective #you’d have to use ‘of it’ or ‘his’ or ‘her’#and I didn’t feel like looking up what the gender of ‘knife’ was lmao #edit: it’s neither of course bc it is Het mes hello…#het is neuter. girl…

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farginen · 2 years ago

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"alkahestry" "may chang" blocked.

#okay i can give alkahestry a pass bc amestris having a word in their language for waidan makes sense #but why the FUCK do people irl write mei's name like that 😭#why would a chinese girl from fictional china be named after the fifth month in (germanic language) instead of a super common ch name #not a fan of translating given names. i get using a nickname or a variant when pronunciation can be challenging #but mei isnt difficult to pronounce what even 😭#this is petty but it’s a pet peeve djdjdj #ooc.#// fandom critical #tagging just in case

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schwazombie · 1 year ago

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your husband is the best kind of himbo, imagine thinking the USSR still existed. Not even in a ractionary evangelical boomer type of way, just like, "oh yeah that's a place!". Ignorance truly is absolute bliss. Can I swap minds with him btw

I'll have to tell him he's been assigned a himbo :D The funniest part of the whole "it's in Yugoslavia" exchange was that he knew in German the name of the country he actually wanted but didn't know what it was in English so he went for Yugoslavia (though he told me he knows Jugoslawien doesn't exist anymore????). It never occurred to him that since we're both bilingual he could have just... said it in German.

#answered #thedevilboudica #him not realizing he can just say things in german is a common thing btw #or he'll not realize a german word is a german word and mispronounce it then look at me like all #surprised pikachu when i'm like Sir That's Your Mother Tongue

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seeminglyseph · 2 years ago

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9 times out of 10 I’m gonna fuck up and pronounce it “Massive Two Shits” instead of “Massachusetts” and I am very sorry.

My mouth doesn’t do enunciation too good and you require me to pronounce all of the letters very specifically.

#for the record half my family is Eastern European so like my pronunciation skills are a problem everywhere #though the ‘settled communities geeeations ago’ and like ‘the Ukrainians and Polish bonded with the local Indigenous peopl’#means that those three getting together are responsible for what my English sounds like today #(for the record a lot of Eastern European settlers in Canada were running from Russia. so. very little has changed.)#there’s also the Germans who probably did not help make the already rural accent sound like ‘Good Respectable English’#I said once ‘you might not place it. people from here do their best not to sound like it once they leave.’#which feels like it says a lot about how I feel about language policing without context #sometimes words mean different things for different people ‘cause their slang comes from different root languages #gotch are fun because it’s such a common phrase I know but it’s based in Ukrainian and a bunch of Eastern Canadians were talking shit #like that it wasn’t a real thing until I pointed out it was pronounced more like ‘gitch’ and is probably from Weatern Canada more #‘cause more Ukrainian settlers in western Canadian history.#accents. are fuckin weird

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ravenwolfie97 · 1 year ago

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okay i Finally feel like i have the time and energy to get back to genshin

it’s a small thing early on in the tcg grand prix thing but i thought it was interesting

so when kaeya greets charlotte, he says “enchantée”

which is initially in line with him being a smooth talking kind of guy

but since charlotte is from fontaine, which is mostly based on france, he’s probably just greeting her in her national language, which is really thoughtful and respectful of him

i just thought that was neat :0

#genshin impact #french interacting with english is difficult to figure out bc so many french words are loaned into english #so like it's hard to pinpoint whether they're actually trying to do a french thing specifically or if it's just coincidence #bc you Can say that as a fully english person and no one would really bat an eye. other than thinking you're kinda stuffy and pompous #there is something to be said that most of the regional language stuff is translated into english in genshin unless its like a title or nam #like no one says greetings in their national language elsewhere - any change in greeting or any idioms are still in english/common #so this is probably just a matter of coincidence that felt in-character for kaeya and charlotte happened to be from anime france #i still think it's cool >:3 #cuz im a language nerd and i like that genshin plays with language a lot #edit now that i've gone to liyue...and finished the rest in general dkdhdj #charlotte being called 'mademoiselle' makes sense too since its more respect toward her #but it is also more of a title. though i can't think of another region that does a thing like that #it is weird now that i think about it how inconsistently genshin sprinkles in foreign honorifics #like again. french is part of english. we're used to it #and the few times they use things like 'sama' and 'sensei' in inazuma/japanese its only not weird bc we're all weebs here #liyue i can somewhat understand because we don't know anything about chinese culture and language in eng #but mondstadt is german. which is the other big part of english. you would think there would be more language representation #other than fischl and venti's lyre and a couple other small things there really isn't much #it's just baseline fantasy land mostly in english #its not like people in mondstadt go around calling each other by Herr and Frau. or anyone in inazuma using -san or -chan even #like if those ever do happen. its an edge case. it isn't strict. so i wonder if fontaine is more strict in its etiquette #anyway. rambled for a good bit #point being i think it's weird but not unwarranted that french is being used more compared to other languages in everyday use here

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vogelmeister · 1 year ago

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there should be a scientific study into why i can sing in dutch but if i try and speak those same words i struggle

#there actually probably is bc its v common i think #like my dad knows two words in german and can ‘sing’ 99 luftballons #but sometimes im like ‘i know those words and when im singing in the shower you can make it out but i cannot say it in my speaking voice’#ill update you on this at 6

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supercantaloupe · 2 years ago

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“but sasha you just spent like the past hour complaining about having to talk to other people in french why would you want to go back to europe” easy. i don’t speak german or italian or spanish. and the awkwardness of being an english speaker in austria or italy or wherever is far better than trying to speak subpar french to a french person

#sasha speaks #have you ever spoken to a french person. in french. it's one of the most intimidating experiences in the world. it's like bomb diffusal #joke. sort of. but it's really hard :( esp cause a lot of french people will just talk to YOU in english if your french is bad #once again i apologize deeply to maxime from cameroon for my horrible french today but he was very nice and patient about it #non-french francophones tend to be more patient and forgiving about the language and with learners in my experience...#although i know he was probably like. trained to talk to learners. and not just anybody would have that kind of helpful attitude #also i think west african french accents are easier to understand a lot of times than france french or quebecois accents SORRY #idk why but i do #also for the record when i travel somewhere even if i don't know the language i do TRY to learn at least a few common phrases and words #i do TRY to be polite and learn a bit. i don't want to be an ignorant self-centered american #(my gd i am embarrassed to be american when i travel)#and in most places people seem to be cool about that #i can actually get by a bit reading italian but spoken italian is pretty much useless to me #but german. sorry guys. hopeless

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the-travelling-witch · 2 months ago

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after seeing this all day i just had to know (removing previous rbs though just for length‘s sake)