Top panel: man smiling, caption reads “me clicking an ich iel post”. Bottom panel: man sad, caption reads “then remembering I can’t read German”.
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But that’s the fun, slowly and painfully learning deutsch from memes
Thats why I blocked the whole community.
If I did that I’d have missed this gem.
No idea what it says but Lego meme!
The meme is a reference to a popular German YouTube channel, called “Held der Steine” (basically translates as “Hero of Bricks”).
On the channel, a guy shows off building block sets which you can then also buy in his accompanying shop. Up until a few years ago, it was almost exclusively Lego sets. Then Lego sent him a mail that his channel logo, which contained a Lego-like brick shape, violated the Lego trademark.
At a later point, they also demanded videos of him to be taken down where he had colloquially referred to building block sets from other manufacturers as “lego”, as we often do in German.And yeah, this did not go down well, so now the guy mostly shows off building block sets from other manufacturers and frequently highlights how insanely expensive Lego is in comparison.
It’s not like translation is hard these days, but I will say it’s rare I do it for ich_iel myself as well. In this case the meme says:
- I’m suing you!
- World, greetings. I’m the hero of the stones, in Frankfurt am Main (a city), in the heart of Europe, in my wonderful little shop, on a fantastic day, and look what I’ve brought you.
But the lazy in me doesn’t want to type it out on another site. Especially on mobile where I can’t pull it up side by side.
And then there’s the ß and ü ö ä and so on. Glad I have most of the keys on my keyboard, but on a mobile device? That does sound like too much effort indeed.
You can just use Google Lens? No typing involved.
Tja…
Machste nix…
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I enjoy ich iel a lot
It’s ich iel, you get credit for trying
huh?.. but… but they said the thing… they said ich iel… jus capitalizsed 🏢 💼 😠 💸
You haven’t missed anything.
For the people that are interested in this community: !ich_iel@feddit.org
I can identify. Sometimes I check the comments to see if someone asked for an English translation.
Always feel free to do so yourself! I’m always happy to see foreigners interested in our culture
Cool. I will.
I can hardly understand it yet it enthuses me so
On android you can hold the bottom gesture area and it brings up Google ai “what’s on my screen” mode and it has a translate function that will replace all the German text on the screen with English, seems to work pretty well at least on the German memes.
Nice… Seems to work. Thanks!
I’m a dinosaur, still browsing on a desktop PC. But I’m going to see if there’s a similar plugin I can use. Thanks for the tip.
Sure, while simultaneously sending everything on your screen to Google for them to build up a profile of all the content you’re looking at, even when it’s not on their platform…
My feed is like: new game, political stuff, robots, ICH BIND SLWARKERNURFER MURKLE BURGEN KRUGEN ESBSISIDOFIDOWKD webcomic
oh no, not burgen krugen. I hate this guy
ESBSISIDOFIDOWKD
His ESB documentary of the empress Sisi was pretty good though
Sometimes you dont need to read to understand
Sometimes you gotta bleed to know
Anyone got good German learning resources? I took courses on it a decade ago and would love to get back into it. Tried Duolingo a while ago but I find it sucks with actual mechanics and just sprays and prays sayings.
Babbel is pretty good, it’s a german company and they offer a lot of free courses aswell. Good luck on your journey! Just skip the articles, we native germans sometimes have trouble remembering the correct form lol
Fellas, is it possible to learn the Deutsche language just from ich iel?
