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I do, admittedly, find it fun to try and work out the meaning through context despite not being able to read German.
I am highly curious about the context of this particular one.
In many German Reddit meme communities, there’s a ban on using English enforced by the community through an all caps ouiji style comment chain, telling the offender “sprich deutsch, du hurensohn,” which means “speak German, you bastard [literally:son of a whore].” ~~In response to~~ (edit: Probably separately from but working well with) that, people began trying to avoid the use of germanized English words and wound up creating basically a pidgin in which things that don’t literally translate are translated literally, completely muddling things for English speakers learning German. My favorite example is a company that used to be run by bill gates, winzigweich, which makes kraftpunkt, Mannschaften, und überbiete, in addition to Fenster.
Edit: the pidgin is called Zangendeutsch (tongs German)
i mean I think I got that. I meant what is literally happening in this photo? What are these kids riding on? Why is that other kid curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor? What led to this photo being taken?
These are (Pedalos)[https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalo_%28Spielger%C3%A4t%29]. For some reasons they are available in every elementary school in Germany. It's not that simple to ride on them without falling, hence they are spreading their arms to have better balance
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You could almost think that all is still right with the world, given the fact that Germans can take the time to teach a few Lemmy-Markdown rules on the side while invading Anglo-Saxon climes. I love Lemmy for moments like this.
Honestly, it felt more like https://xkcd.com/386/.
xkcd on point as always. Little fires are blazing all over the internet. When there's a fireman in your head, there's always a lot to do. Sounds familiar to me too.