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[–] 81 points 7 months ago (33 children)

Isn’t it closer to “we are looking for you”?

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (32 children)

    suchen = to search/look for

    and ch doesn't make a k sound, not even close.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm fairly certain the German ch sound doesn't exist in English

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Well it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

    Well it is close, though.

    It's really not though? Yeah, both are velar but a fricative doesn't sound like a plosive at all. That's like saying F is close to P, or S is close to T – do you often mix those up?

    Edit: and to pre-empt any pedantry from anyone, yes I know that in English P is a bilabial while F is a labiodental, shut up, close enough, both are still labials

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    In Dutch, a T is sometimes pronounced S

    Politie (police) is pronounced polisie for example

    In the word politiek (politics) it remains a T sound

    Democratie -> democrasie

    Etcetera

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    That's not a valid comparison at all, and it's not pedantic to point that out no matter how preemptively you claim that it is.

    Bilapial ≠ lapiodental! It's not that hard to understand.

    The entire similarity between K and the German Ch is based on them both being velar (and unvoiced). You're crafting a strawman by focusing on the "fricative and plosive" manner while ignoring that the sound is made at the same place.

    S and T are almost a better comparison because they're both technically alveolar, but that ignores the fact that S has a dental component. Try making a T sound and then an S sound without moving your teeth. It won't work.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Coming back to this thread, because sometimes it actually is pronounced as a k

    e.g. Fuchs, Lachs, wachsen

    tbf, it usually is not a k, and most importantly it isn't in this context

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  • [+] -7 points 7 months ago* (14 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

    This is about German, not English

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (10 children)

    "Ch" sounds like "k" in English?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Ha, true! But do people generally think of a "k" sound when they see "ch"?

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I see. So it's kina, dukess, koose and Apake? Gotta have a word with some english teakers, brb.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Yep. Ch as k- sound exists in english. So does ch as (t)sh. So it's your choosing how you want to pronounce ch in foreign languages (and both are wrong)

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Na. Some people just want to see dicks everywhere. So much so, that you intentionally have to misread foreign languages.

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  • [+] 3 points 7 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I don't mind dicks. This joke is just too constructed.

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You can't take it when someone doesn't find something funny you find funny, can you? I find it overconstructed and therefore not funny.

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  • [+] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No, you came here to complain to zaphod.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Must be a case of this superior sense of humor that we Germans famously do not possess.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    "ch" is sometimes pronounced "k" in some languages, but then it's quite rare

    After considering the issue for a while, I think people just really really want to see dicks everywhere

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

    Haaaaaa. C’mon Deutschland, its a funny phrase. We don’t need a lesson in pronunciation.

    In Estonian, twelve months is kaksteist kuud Sounds like “cocks taste good”.

    We’re all allowed to enjoy the penis humour.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    The phrase is funny when you anglicize the pronunciation. Is this really a comprehension issue?

    BuT tHaTs NoT hOw YoU sAy It~

    Ya... everybody knows. I really didn't expect the conversation on this joke to be so divided, but I guess the Germans are living up to their reputation for their sense of humour.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What gets me is the potatoes that are advertised as extra big...

    "Extra dick!"

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Behold: Metten's "Dicke Sauerländer Bockwurst" (Thick Sauerländer Sausage - Sauerländer is an ambiguous term that means to say the sausage is from the "Sauerland" region, but a person from that region would be referred to as a Sauerländer as well)

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Knowing the German pronunciation makes it not as funny. But seeing "extra dick burgers" at the store still gives me a chuckle.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    We're sucking dick?

    Aah no its german, sorry.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And like most German things, they're saying it in the most terrifying way possible.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I never knew the Germans were so open about fellation.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Oh, this must be so funny when you are monolingual and have no idea how to pronounce German

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    There is a “20 bucks is 20 bucks” joke in here somewhere

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The Germophiles came en masse to correct the translation. I guess they were "suchen dich", op.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This is on the level of Fahrt jokes and I'm here for it. :3

    -- Frost

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Are you confusing H with K?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    i thought you are being too pedantic is all

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not pedantic, just plain wrong.

    This joke only works if you don't know anything about the German language...

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    [–] -5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why are Americans literally seemingly physically incapable of pronouncing words like "suchen" and "dich" in the proper way? Of course I am biased as a native german speaker, but I swear, those sounds aren't that complicated to make?

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