Lammninians with neither English nor German as their first language:
No, wait, I don’t like that meme format, this represents us:
My folks also do something similar. I’d bet most lemmy/[colour name]dit users of miscellanious languages also have their own form of me+me (I+I). Spanish speakers, is it ‘yoyo’ or just ‘meme’?
MeyahMeyah, Memequeas, AymeAymase, AmakuAmak, MjawMjaws, MëMëz, MeMe first & the gimme gimmes, … basically any culture of any creature that communicated has me+me.
MeyahMeyah
Ka?
I originally started to take English a bit more seriously so I could understand the objectives in RTS games, then I realized they also had a story, then I realized a whole new world opened up to me.
How I felt when I learned Spanish. It opened up a whole nuevo mundo de memes.
Also fun fact: “memes” in Spanish is pronounced maymays and it always makes me laugh when I hear it.
more like meh-meh
source: may my username be a hint
Not to my american raised ears. I live in colombia and have for nearly a decade. To my ears the spanish “e” sound is most similar to the english sound “ay” as in hay or may but shorter. I’ve never heard someone make the phoneme “eh” here in colombia.
Might be because of local accent as well, I don’t speak a word of spanish but I’d be very surprised if there’s no difference between spanish in spain and spanish in colombia
Nah, e is the same across most spanish accents. It’s more likely we’re just using different letters for the same sounds as i said in my other comment.
maymay the meme be with you
Donde esta la biblioteca?
Me llamo T-Bone, la araña discoteca
Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca
Es en bigote grande, perro, mantecaYea, Boiii - source
I’m extatic to report that my highschool German is finally being used.
My wife is fluent in German and while she can read the memes she doesn’t understand half of them
Probably because a lot or them (especially _iel) use
literalletteral translations, nobody in their right mind would use in everyday conversations. Like in this post with “michmichs”.
ah yes german lemmys the english for more memes learn
German makes so much more sense when you realize that it’s structured like super old-timey English.
I’m sorry, michmichs? you don’t really say that, do you? it’s not like the word comes from “me”, its just a play on “genes”.
you guys just say “memes” right?
… right?
No we don’t say that and I was completely confused until I read the english line.
Nein
we say that if we speak in Zangendeutsch, but not normally
Entschuldigung. Haben sie…DANK MEMES?
Mais qu’est-ce qu’ils disent?
And I can beides sprechen
Anyone said “du hast michmich” yet?
Yes
Wunderbar.
英語とハンガリー語レミングは、よけいまんがやアニメのために日本語に勉強します。
