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Guten Tag Everybody

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ich_iel is the worst place to learn german, the running gag is to translate stuff from english literally while actively ignoring the context.
- Es ist, was es ist.
  
  Tja.
- Is that true? My dear mister singing club!
- My English is so good, that makes me nobody so quickly after!
  
  Classic english for runaways.
  
  Must you give your mustard to everything?
- Ich kann konfirmieren dies.
- That honestly sounds like it would be hilarious.
  Does it translate well back into English enough to get the joke?
  
  Yes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn't actually make sense in German, but that's part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.
  
  As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.
- It has nothing to do with your friends throwing trash on the ground
It's not even easy to understand ich_iel as a native speaker. They use an extreme form of internet slang only understood by a handful of people.
- Dies ist ein klarer Fall eines Geschicklichkeitsproblems.
  
  Some skills can be purchased!
  
  Hey buddy, I can clearly lick my chickens whenever I want.
  
  Im örtlichen Gebietsnetzwerk wäre es ein Ass gewesen.
Always know I've been awake too long when new turns Deutsche. Gotta brush up.
Jajajajaja

Did I just say “yes” a bunch of times, or was I laughing? No idea.
- Agreeing in German, laughing in Spanish, I think.
  
  sounds about right. no idea why the spanish have a stroke every time they laugh
- Ja ja heißt leck mich am Arsch!
  
  Olles klaa maistaa
- When you agree for a fifth time in German it's actually a cheeky way of saying you disagree. /S
I took German in High school… 25+ years ago. Never got fluent and never used it after that. Now I see the memes and find myself picking out words I remember to find the funny.
Damn Germans and their enigmatic memes
- Ah, du kriegst es hin noch Deutsch zu lernen.
- It's a program of attraction rather than promotion
Ryan, is that you?
- Sorry, different American
  
  There are more?
  
  Oh, hey Jim!
ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch

(pretty sure that says "i speak a bit of german")
- Can't you read? It clearly says Dutch
  
  What does Pennsylvania have to do with anything?
- Correct!
SPRICH
- DEUTSCH
  
  DU
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
- A mi abuelo se le caería una lágrima :,)
Good that you chose this community, otherwise you'd have a request to change it to ich❌🇩🇪😂iel
MFW krankenwagen naturwissenschaft 😂
- SCHMETTERLING!
- Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung?
  
  Nicht in meinem Deutschland!
I've seen those posts too, but can't speak German. What does "ich_iel" actually mean?
- It’s “ich im echten Leben”, which is a literal translation of “me in real life”.
  
  Basically it’s a meme community and the german version of me_irl.
  
  Actually, it's a direct translation of I_irl. It should really have been mich_iel or mir_iel.
what's an alter
- Alter, wo is mein Auto
- A northern oida.
- From what I looked up it means something like dude or mate. It's also used when expressing suprise? If native speaker has better insight I'd appreciate it.
  
  It's pretty much just "dude", vor talking with friends. Other widely used versions include "Digga" and "Bruder"
  
  The English "Yo" is a really good translation. You can use it to express surprise ("Alter! Wtf!" - "Yo! Wtf!") or to address someone ("Alter, was geht?" - "Yo, whats up?").
  
  "Yo" really is the best translation I can think of.
  
  The literal meaning is a really informal "old one" but can also mean "age" in another context. It is used exactly like you described.
- Alter, das kann doch jetzt nicht wahr sein.
SchroedingersPat* ftfy
I just block em lol
- Angry blocking noises
  
  Lol im not angry I just don't understand

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