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As a German visiting the US (social.fossware.space)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NettoHikari@social.fossware.space to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

Explanation: Germans ~~used to~~ (apparently only in my bubble) call cellphones "Handy" and many people still do that. My friends from america found that quite hilarious.

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[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] rob64@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using "so"instead of "that". This guy germans.

[–] Felix@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a German. The way you phrase sentences is so similar in both languages at times that it becomes so damn easy to create a sentence which might sound reasonable at first glance, yet doesn't make any sense if you think about it and/or have a "deep" understanding of thr English language.

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Thus so is so or deshalb and also is auch. Yep, it gets confusing.

[–] rob64@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Or even composition of words. I remember during a class discussion translating "Thanksgiving" as "Danksgebung" on the fly. At least I greatly entertained my professor—and I'll never forget "Erntedankfest".

[–] FitchInks@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

When I was doing my exchange year in sweden I had a german teach us swedish in english. It took me while until I realised that instead dictonary she kept saying wordbook.

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rob64@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Naja. So ist es wenn man eine Fremdsprache spricht. Ich genieße nur diese Momenten wenn ich sie identifizieren kann. 😁

[–] paperemail@links.rocks 3 points 1 year ago

My German family still does too