147

submitted 2 months ago by jared@mander.xyz to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 5 points 2 months ago

I’m a native English speaker with very good German married to a native German speaker and every few weeks I come across something that I just don’t get. My husband has now developed a Pavlovian response to me saying “so you remember Zangendeutsch?”

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I'm curious: is it intuitive for you once you know or confusing or funny or all of the above?

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago

Winzig-weich took way too long for the payoff, but generally I chuckle a little. I do absolutely worry that I’m internalizing bad English linguistic interference though