Today I learned I can read German

April 04, 2026 - 19:51 UTC

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Wow me too!
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Hubby and I just watched Unfamiliar (a German series dubbed in English) and we were amazed at how well it tracked, not at all like the old Godzilla movies where the words and the mouths had no correlation at all. Must be because English is so close to German and many of our words are very similar.
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Which was improper German. He didn't need ein. But the sentiment was there. West Germany loved him!
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Yes
Yes they do!
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Me too
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Me, too. We're just talking the first two words, right?
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“It’s German for ‘the, Republicans, the.’”
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I can read it too.
I feel like Dewey Cox.
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“Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption” pretty clear too.
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Ich bin ein antinaziproblem
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There is definitely a subset of German that just sounds like English spoken with a corny German accent.
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Fun fact: English is a Germanic language.
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Who says social media can’t be educational?
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Sips Tea…
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My grandparents spoke German but I never picked it up. I’m reading that as “The Republicans have a Nazi problem.” which seems like an accurate assessment.
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Yep. English, Dutch, and German are the biggest surviving representatives of the West Germanic languages which probably diverged from each other in earnest in the early Middle Ages. So they’re all quite similar.
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I took German classes for 5 years in high school and German. Don't remember much but your translation is spot-on.
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I dont speak a lick of Getman and I read the same thing.
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English words with German (Germanic/Old English) roots often sound more common, informal, or "lower class" than their French-rooted counterparts due to the 1066 Norman Conquest, where French became the language of the aristocracy, but Germanic-rooted words remained with the laboring classes
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It's like when people pretend to speak Spanish by adding an -a or an -o to English words. El republicano have el problemo de nazi-o
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Im mainly disappointed in the Germans for not already having a single 6 syllable word that means exactly this
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Wow, and I somehow learned Finnish a couple of weeks ago:
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CORRECTION! I magically acquired the ability to read *Norwegian* www.dn.no/politikk/tidligere-forsvarssjef-om-trumps-usa-neo-fascistisk-bananrepublikk/2-1-1930052
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I guess that's Norwegian- banaanitasavalta is a bit harder to read
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It’s a very guttural, direct language.
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It’s really excellent that it’s one word.
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😉
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En el fondo es un inglés mal escrito. En parte, claro
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O al revés: el inglés es un alemán descafeinado
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Ja! Was geht, Doc?🤣😂🤣
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Gut.
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They had me at "Die Republikaner" tbh..
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Its things like this that remind me that English originated from German.
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I read this in Sabine Hossenfelder's voice.
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I feel like this is how English looks to a lot of the people in the photo.
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No, that's English.
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Me too
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There's an old joke: Q: Can you speak German? A: I don't know I never tried.
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Unfortunately, I can only read it in the Swedish Chef voice.
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actually it just means "the republicans" but yours is better
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Me too!
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Coño!!

Y yo!!
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Der Kongress ist schlimmer als ein Kindergarten!
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I like that “Nazi problem” is a thing they have to say so often that they made it one word
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Ja!
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English is oddly closely related to german, even though at first glance its one of the most foreign sounding languages
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Ja.
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We all did. Gut für uns
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Somethings transcend language.
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This is a weird feeling of schadenfreude
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I guess Russia will try to denazify them too.
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Belly laugh!
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English is Germanic, so that makes sense. :)
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you see, in German they have a special word to represent when a group of people have a nazi problem. It's 'Naziproblem' and I think that's beautiful.
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German is an agglutinative language so if you need a new word for something you just stick other words together
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I’m starting to think this headline should be on a t-shirt.
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Oh wow, I had no idea. I need to follow some Germans.
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Na ja duh!
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Er ist ein verdammtes Nazi-Arschloch.
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Try this one: Wir leiden unter seiner Herrschaft
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We hebben een serieus probleem
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🤣😂🤣
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It's actually more understandable than a lot of things Trump says.
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they really do have a word for everything
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😅
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Genau wie immer.
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Today I learned die means something else in German unfortunately.
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Reminds me of this headline from Der Spiegel:
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They would know a n@zi if they saw one. 🤷‍♂️
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Trump MAGAs are going to be shocked to find out where part of the English language comes from. lol
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