• @Treczoks@lemm.ee
    164•2 years ago

    You speak English because it is the only language you know.

    I speak English because it is the only language you know.

    We are not the same.

        • interolivary
          5•2 years ago

          Sidenote, but as a Finn it’s always so fun to read or hear Estonian. Very often I can get at least the gist of what’s being said, and with this phrase I was like 75% sure of what it meant (the 25% comes from the fact that many Estonian words look familiar but actually mean something completely different than what I’d expect.) Finnic languages are pretty rare with like 7 million speakers total, so getting this “oh this language sounds so familiar” feeling isn’t exactly common for us.

          Somebody actually did a fun video on this where a Finn and an Estonian tried to guess what the other was saying.

          • @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
            3•2 years ago

            Sounds like the relationship between German and Dutch. To me as an Austrian, Dutch sounds like a drunk northern German speaking half English.

            • interolivary
              2•2 years ago

              I studied German around 3000 years ago and Dutch feels somewhat more intelligible to me (at least when reading it, heh) compared to Estonian; it really does sound like someone took English and German and made them do unspeakable things to each other. German & Dutch definitely are a good enough comparison in any case, and I guess eg. Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and maybe Romanian might be too.

              But even eg. Italian and German are related, even though it’s not immediately obvious. You Indo-European speakers are surrounded by related languages, and here’s us, the Estonians, the Sámi and a bunch of dying minority cultures in Russia speaking our crazy moon speaks that nobody understands.

              • @_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
                2•2 years ago

                I feel you. When I go to Hungary, my brain breaks. In most surrounding countries, I can sort of guess common words. “Exit” is more or less the same word (vychod) in all nearby Slavic languages for example. And then there’s Hungarian where it’s probably szönözökémül or something.

                • interolivary
                  2•2 years ago

                  Lol szönözökémül. I get what you mean though, Hungarian is such a distant relative of Finnish that it’s not mutually intelligible with Finnish in any way, so it feels just as alien to me. The grammar has some familiar constructs and there’s like a handful of words that, when they were specifically pointed out to me and I was told it’s the same as some word in Finnish, I went “oh right I can see how those are related” but I would never have noticed them otherwise.

                  At least Finnish has related languages but eg. Basque speakers will never hear a foreign language that makes their brain go “I totally understand this! Trust me nothing will go wrong!”, and how sad is that?

        • Karyoplasma
          2•2 years ago

          Rausch*

          Empfehle den zweiten Teil. Die Story ist echt gut und Michaela spielt den Flohwalzer auf nem Klavier.

          • @undeffeined@lemmy.ml
            3•2 years ago

            I have no idea what it actually means. When on an exchange program many years ago, a drunken Finn taught me that

            • Karyoplasma
              2•2 years ago

              “Im Rausch des Orgasmus” is a famous, now vintage, porn series with acclaimed German porn actress Michaela Schaffrath under her stage name Gina Wild. It means something like “The buzz of orgasms”.

    • @NicestDicerest@lemmy.world
      10•2 years ago

      People in the US: Can speak English, sometimes Spanish

      People in Germany: Can speak German, had Spanish & French in school, can understand most of dutch natively and have learned some Turkish from their friends

  • _cnt0
    69•2 years ago

    Hätten sie lieber die Spanische Inquisition?

    • _cnt0
      22•2 years ago

      Wat? Kaum drei Haare auf’m Sack und schon ein’ auf dicke Hose machen hier, wie?

        • _cnt0
          12•2 years ago

          Haben wir noch Apostrophs? Keinem mehr? Gar keinem? Zwei noch?

          Jetz’ gibt’s Maul!

          • No_
            3•2 years ago

            Why are you clapping back with an insult to someone making a joke…?

            • Zyratoxx
              4•2 years ago

              Huh, “Man sieht sich” means “See you” and is not an insult or am I missing something?

              I was just responding that bc I thought you “Reeee’d” out (a.k.a rage quitted) :')

              • No_
                4•2 years ago

                Oh, when I translated it, it auto detected dutch for some reason and was something along the lines of “man sees himself”. Which considering my own comment… So, sorry for the confusion!

                • Zyratoxx
                  1•2 years ago

                  Ah, yeah, the word by word translation would be “One sees each other”

                  Mann with double n would be man /

                  man with one n is some(one)

                  Anyways sry for the first time shocker, mate xD

  • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    11•2 years ago

    I’ve been online for twenty-five years. There has been one constant: writing bad German summons an actual German to helpfully correct you.