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itsyveinthesky

Le Vollkornbrot

thatswhywelovegermany

The special honor when French adopts a foreign word instead of creating a new one.

raketenchirurg

I urgently need to know how it’s pronounced in French.

#languages #is the t at end silent??#image

byfulcrums

“Devil's Backbone” but it's Lan Wangji's POV about loving Wei Wuxian.

raketenchirurg

I might have just the perfect painful treat by dangocheeked for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR0TW1UPtA

#mdzs #the untamed #animatic #dangocheeked #video #queue

natalieironside

“Phonoaesthetics isn’t my thing so I can’t explain why, but German is an inherently funny language,” exhibit A

sublimephantomdinosuar-deactiva

I love it because it was a choice. They could have put the whole title in English, THE QUEEN. They could have put the whole title in German, DIE KÖNIGIN. Anyone writing at the spiegle speaks English proficiently, it was not an accident they choose chaos.

raketenchirurg

I get how this is very funny to non-German speakers. This is not a dig at the Queen, though. This is how everyone - EVERYONE - talks about her in Germany. It’s always been “die Queen”.

As a German native speaker fluent in English I had to read the reblog text to realize what was entertaining about this.

I am not saying that every German is so very used to her being “die Queen” that they will entirely disregard the English meaning of “die” on reflex, I figure plenty had some kind of reaction to that thinking how that sounds in English, but I guarantee you in the German speaking context not for a second anyone thought this was on purpose.

raketenchirurg

Also! Also people keep going this was deliberate in the notes, so gotta add this: That issue is from 2016. Queen Elizabeth II. was on the cover in honor of her 90th birthday. This is entirely unrelated!

#der spiegel #die queen #i am so bothered by this #and being ridiculous #shutting up now

natalieironside

"Phonoaesthetics isn't my thing so I can't explain why, but German is an inherently funny language," exhibit A

sublimephantomdinosuar-deactiva

I love it because it was a choice. They could have put the whole title in English, THE QUEEN. They could have put the whole title in German, DIE KÖNIGIN. Anyone writing at the spiegle speaks English proficiently, it was not an accident they choose chaos.

raketenchirurg

I get how this is very funny to non-German speakers. This is not a dig at the Queen, though. This is how everyone - EVERYONE - talks about her in Germany. It’s always been “die Queen”.

As a German native speaker fluent in English I had to read the reblog text to realize what was entertaining about this.

I am not saying that every German is so very used to her being “die Queen” that they will entirely disregard the English meaning of “die” on reflex, I figure plenty had some kind of reaction to that thinking how that sounds in English, but I guarantee you in the German speaking context not for a second anyone thought this was on purpose.

#German #die queen #the queen of england #i keep my mouth shut so often about misconceptions about german on here but this time my pedantic ass was weak #the notes on this post is half german speakers going no this is wrong #and half people not speaking german celebrating us for our shenanigans #sigh

abba-enthusiast

Swiss German Word of the Day🇨🇭

Chrü|si|mü|si, s (n); Durcheinander, Unordnung, Mischmasch

I mim Schrank isch es Chrüsimüsi. In meinem Schrank herrscht ein Durcheinander.

#Kruselmusel!#love this #Kruselmusel might be Westfalian?#Might be spelling it entirely wrong #only ever used it in spoken German

anthropologist-on-the-loose

The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.