this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being German with a Ukrainian grandmother, I can promise that simply shouting a recipe in Russian will wither most people to the ground.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's the case for pretty much every language if the person you're talking to doesn't understand you and you shout it aggressively enough

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ich hätte gerne einen Hamburger

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mein Herr, dies ist eine Apotheke.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mein Herr, dies ist ein Wendy's

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would like to buy a hamburger. https://youtu.be/Z6oeAdemFZw

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ein Döner mit alles mit scharf!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Heirate mich.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whenever I need to intimidate someone, I say "У меня есть маленькая собачка" in an angry mumble. It sounds scary, but means "I have a little dog"...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A KÄSLEBERKASSEMMEL BITTE!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Please don't kill me

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Sprich Deutsch du Whorensohn

[–] frankyboi 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no idea what that mean but I feel attacked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Das heißt Hurensohn du reudiger Angelsachse!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Harrys Pferdeschnitzel, gestern noch geritten, heute schon mit fritten. Was möchten sie bestellen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hallo, ich hatte gestern bei euch ein schnitzel bestellt. Leider muss ich sagen dass es war ein bisschen unter gekocht, weil es hat mein stroh hut gegessen, und mein tochter hat ihm der ganze nacht geritten.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Sie waren wohl gestern da. Tja.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Zum hier essen oder zum Mitnehmen?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunternehmenbeamtengesellschaft

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean, Handkäs mit Musik (hand cheese "with music") is perfectly understandable!

[–] oliver 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Nah. I find German kind of playful actually. Phrases that sound Latinate and serious in English, in German sound more playful to me as a native Anglophone. As they often use similar roots to "less serious" Germanic words in English.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

One of my favorites. After learning insults in German and Spanish, English curses are weaksauce.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Try having a good relationship with God in Italian

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Es ist sehr treu.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Bitte einen Viertelpfund-Cheeseburger, eine Brezel, ein Würstchen und einen Krug Bier!😆

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] oliver 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only fascists talk like that at their conferences. And then it doesn't sound much better in other languages.

There are a hell of a lot of good examples of how terrible our language is, but that's nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It's a tired joke missing any context or finesse but has some truth to it like most of these kind of stereotypes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@janus2 @frankyboi, so actually only when a German is pissed off

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I feel like Australians can take the insults up a notch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No one mentioning Arab insults? Shit goes hard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Здравствуйте, Ein kabop, gracias.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You should know how it works to say how you like your friend in the Brazilian/carioca way (Rio de Janeiro). It scares the shit out of anyone from outside there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] frankyboi 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't get it ,but I appreciate your efforts .lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@frankyboi pula means dick and we combine it with everything (kinda NSFW link)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Italian insults: the literal antichrist

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