Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don’t like that meme format, this represents us:
Esperanto for Lemmy lingua franca! Err… I mean… Lingua esperanta!
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
My folks also do something similar. I’d bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it ‘yoyo’ or just ‘meme’?
In polish that would be “jaja” when means “balls” (as in testicles) so no polish people don’t really do that
That’s interesting, considering that the origin of the term “meme” refers to one of two ways people pass down information - culturally (through memes) and genetically (through DNA reproduction.)
Testicles are too busy working on genetic transmission. They don’t need to be tasked with memeing as well.
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, … basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
MeyahMeyah
Ka?
I’m sorry, michmichs? you don’t really say that, do you? it’s not like the word comes from “me”, its just a play on “genes”.
you guys just say “memes” right?
… right?
No we don’t say that and I was completely confused until I read the english line.
we say that if we speak in Zangendeutsch, but not normally
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ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn
German makes so much more sense when you realize that it’s structured like super old-timey English.
me me = michmich
ich lol’d
Amazing-ich.
How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.
Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
Watch out ! They’re coming for you !
best i can do is not to leave home, thus, no lifestyle changes needed
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
Might be because of local accent as well, I don’t speak a word of spanish but I’d be very surprised if there’s no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia
Nah, e is the same across most spanish accents. It’s more likely we’re just using different letters for the same sounds as i said in my other comment.
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, mantecaYea, Boiii - source
maymay the meme be with you
Not maymays, mehmehs. ( If you want to make something in Spanish sound like “maymays”, you need to spell it “meimeis”)
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
My argentine ears disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrEekDZixG0
At 4:10 or so, she says “eme”. That’s the closest I could find to someone from Colombia saying meme. Eh-meh, not aymay. It’s an open E, as in any other Spanish accent.
I think we might just be using different orthography to get the same sound. I hear her say ay-may.
Oh god I’m starting to learn German from these now…
The only word I didn’t understand in the top part was “Michmichs”
Mich = me
Michmich = meme, basically Zangendeutsch, a figurative translation of foreign words to German.
Relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichtzen.
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn’t understand half of them
Don’t worry, ich_iel is confusing for native speakers as well.
The way I see it:
On English lemmy there are countless situations in which people fail to pick up on jokes/wordplay. I imagine the same happens quite often in any media in any language.
…skill issue?
I presume your wife just needs more literalism and brain worms / absurdism
Or a labotomy, but I prefer the way she is. Guess we’ll just have to “huh” together for a little while longer.
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use
literalletteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with “michmichs”.
Anyone said “du hast michmich” yet?
Yes
Wunderbar.
Völkerverständigung! ⚒️
I’m extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
Every time i see a fully germen meme I laugh and assume its funny if you know German.
I would still say I don’t understand written German, and I certainly couldn’t understand SPOKEN German, but I understand enough to understand the memes.
So thanks for that, ich_iel!
Sometimes I like the memes just because they look cool even though I have no idea what they say.
You know, in Germany we learn English since elementary school.
Yes but school never managed to motivate me to learn more than just the nessesary to pass basics. So most of my english i learned from memes and entering communities after i left school
