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[–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

It's most likely because only half that sentence is in German and it's not the part you need to understand this

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    Literally only one word is german since mein is basically a cognate and schnitzel is a name of a food and doesn't count.

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    [–] 46 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    You understand it, because it is not German.
    Only two purely German words. Three, if you also count "schnitzel", which is kinda international by now and would have to be written with an uppercase "S" to be correct German.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    lowkey sadam hussein hiding spot?

    Holy shit guys I think I know German

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I would love to translate the sentence into actual German for you, but unfortunately it is broken so much, that I have no idea what patriachatpirat was trying to say.

    I was at first considering "Mein Schnitzel" to be the name of some restaurant, but there is none of that name in Erlangen (where this image has been taken, you can determine it by the distinct logo on the bus time monitor).

    It's like they put extra effort into making their post as bad as possible.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Yes, and German and English are also both germanic languages and they have a lot of common vocabulary. Not in this sentence but generally

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'd be careful in regards to the similar vocabulary. There are many false friends. For example, you'd get very different things if you got a 'Gift' in Germany and a 'gift' in England.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I am aware, I speak swedish and english and know little german.

    In english you "swim" in a lake but you don't want to "svimma" in a lake in swedish

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    German and English are also both germanic languages and they have a lot of common vocabulary.

    As a native German speaker who had to learn the English language, I think that effect to be overrated.

    Many of the English words with common German roots have parted ways so profoundly by now, they are often hardly recognizable as the same word any more (doesn't help that the Germanic base was some version of Plattdeutsch spoken in the northern part of Lower Saxony and the Netherlands, which many Germans also don't really understand).

    The words that actually were surprisingly easy to understand for me, are the ones with common Latin (or maybe French) roots.

    That is one of the reasons many Germans tend to sound presumptuous to native speakers, as they are more likely to use those often more formal expressions.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    "mein schnitzel" might be one of the funniest phrases ever uttered by a human.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Krazy everybody, you can understand mein german so gut.

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