• Instantnudeln
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    8 months ago

    Yes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn’t actually make sense in German, but that’s part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.

    As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.

    • @Gork@lemm.ee
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      18 months ago

      The English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like “chop a tree down” followed immediately be “chop a tree up”.