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[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 150 points 3 months ago

I still don't know what ich_iel is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

[-] Vittelius@feddit.org 194 points 3 months ago

It's the German version of me_irl. Stands for "Ich _ im echten Leben" and is a direct translation of the English

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 87 points 3 months ago

Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 months ago

it is only me_irl in name though, it is a general meme / conversational community with the obnoxious (and over used to death) in joke that is zangendeutsch.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

"Zangendeutsch" means an aggressive way of removing the influence of english into the german language. But outside of ich_iel we write in english as everyone. Which is obviously a little bit weird, isn't it?

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

No, that's wrong. Zangendeutsch is all about English influence and playfully literal translations even when there are better German words. So you need to translate it back to English and into German again to decode it and that's the fun about it.

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Omg I was reading it as "ich lel" not "ich iel" this whole time πŸ˜… thanks

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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 3 months ago

It started as a German version of me_irl (hence the name "ich im echten Leben") and developed a culture on its own including bad translations from English and other insiders

[-] superkret@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago

It's mostly ramen, cows and trains now.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As in "ze ~~motorboat~~ hovercraft is full of iel"?

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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 113 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"So, you said you're auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?"

"Uhh... memes. You can tell they're fire, but I can't read them."

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago
[-] Archer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Who could possibly think that???

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 65 points 3 months ago
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[-] mogoh@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 months ago

How are there so many of them

That sounds linke you are not one of them, yet your posting history suggests to differ.

[-] Toastbrotmann@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My cover is blown πŸ₯Έ

[-] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

"Toastbrotmann" ist jetzt auch nicht wirklich die beste Verkleidung.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 months ago

Detective mogoh on the case. Will he solve this mystery or will the evil shitposter get away unscathed? Join us next week to find out!

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[-] far_university190@feddit.org 42 points 3 months ago

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[-] raker@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago
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[-] trk@aussie.zone 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Whenever I see Lemmy without being logged in, it's a wall of German and all I can think of is "ach, du lieber... das ist not eine booby!"

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For me it's DU. DU HAST. DU HAST MICH.

Or alternatively, Ich bin ein Berliner

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[-] Vytle@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

I'm legitimately trying to learn German because of this

[-] LiveFreeDie8@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Weiter so! Ich lerne auch Deutsch.

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[-] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

I find the lack of "SPRICH" in here disturbing.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 months ago

But there is a lot of "DEUTSCH" in here, so...

[-] 9bananas@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

aber "DU", da geht noch was!

[-] Tja@programming.dev 25 points 3 months ago
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[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 29 points 3 months ago

Il faut faire quelque chose !

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 17 points 3 months ago
[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 13 points 3 months ago

Hallo de France. Wie geht's in der deutschsprachiges Lemmy?

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[-] eunieisthebus@feddit.org 26 points 3 months ago

Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Are we learning German now?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 55 points 3 months ago

If you use ich_iel to learn German, your next visit to Germany could be... interesting.

[-] Brocon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

To be honest... I would pay for a beer or two just to watch that.

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[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

There are several steps between learning German and comprehending whatever the fuck we're doing over there.

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[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 23 points 3 months ago

The "always has been" should have been in German

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[-] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

To try and answer the question of why so many of them. Please note this is broad generalizations:

  1. german people have large privacy and date security fears. This has kept them off of many other platforms. Most people in my friends circle never had a MySpace / Facebook... Being in an anonymous space like here is nice.

  2. they also are and have been technologically behind in many ways. Bringing them slower to other platforms that they would have started off on, making it so they didn't use any. Ignorance and fear of technology and privacy fear combined with being technologically slower meant they were going on other platforms in a time when the platforms were getting known as "bad, mentally harmful, data mining & selling machines".

  3. English language skills are lower in Germany (outside of Berlin). Many tourists don't see this as they go to touristy things (hotels, attractions) where they speak English. It is easy in platforms like this or reddit to be in a German speaking bubble. People who speak lots of English like their neighbors the Dutch, would more likely just post in English as everyone can then understand it.

Source: my opinions - but I do live in Germany.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 22 points 3 months ago
  1. While it's true that Germans might value their privacy more than others, the fediverse is incredibly niche and most people either use the big corpo apps or nothing. Also lemmy is not anonymous, at most maybe pseudonymous.

  2. I really don't get point 2. Isn't being a member of the fediverse rather advanced? But also how are Germans technologically behind regarding common personal life?

  3. I'm Gen Z and almost all of my friends know English well enough to have a conversation online. Granted, I work in IT, but not all of my friends are technology people and this still holds.

Counterpoint: I think Germany is just a rather big Western country with many technologically interested people and people who value fediverse ideals like being free from corporate influence. There are dozens of us!

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[-] manucode@infosec.pub 22 points 3 months ago

It's all one person, me and my other personalities.

[-] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Hi. Was essen wir heute am Abend?

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[-] _____@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

The conflict between seeing so many German users but also wanting more people on Lemmy altogether. Alright Germans... You win this time

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago
[-] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

I see more Dutch content than German.

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[-] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 months ago
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