#german fails

[electricgladiatorpolice]

My bestie sent this to me from Wattpad

This is the normal Text

And this the German translation:

For the not German: „Skiing today. He does that often. But he has a very good reason." Soooo, just imagine, when the other's suffer at school, Mesh is skiing. My honest reaction: 😶😐😭

And the second is worst than that:

Yeah that's the normal text, but the German:

For all not Germans: „I'm stupid".... Just image, Slick would say that in a normal conversation😭😂

My friend wanted that i tag you @trylynarie

#German Fails #my best friend #clone wars

[inky-duchess]

Fantasy Guide to Building A Culture

Culture is defined by a collection of morals, ethics, traditions, customs and behaviours shared by a group of people.

Hierarchy and Social Structures

Within every culture, there is a hierarchy. Hierarchies are an important part of any culture, usually do ingrained that one within the culture wouldn't even question it. Hierarchy can be established either by age, gender or wealth and could even determine roles within their society. Sometimes hierarchy can may be oppressive and rigid whilst other times, ranks can intermingle without trouble. You should consider how these different ranks interact with one another and whether there are any special gestures or acts of deference one must pay to those higher than them. For example, the Khasi people of Meghalaya (Northern India), are strictly matrillineal. Women run the households, inheritance runs through the female line, and the men of the culture typically defer to their mothers and wives. Here are a few questions to consider:

How is a leader determined within the culture as a whole and the family unit?

Is the culture matriarchal? Patriarchal? Or does gender even matter?

How would one recognise the different ranks?

How would one act around somebody higher ranking? How would somebody he expected to act around somebody lower ranking?

Can one move socially? If not, why? If so, how?

Traditions and Customs

Traditions are a staple in any culture. These can be gestures or living life a certain way or to the way a certain person should look. Traditions are a personal detail to culture, they are what make it important. Tradition can dictate how one should keep their home, run their family, take care of their appearance, act in public and even determine relationship. Tradition can also be a double edged sword. Traditions can also be restrictive and allow a culture to push away a former member if they do not adhere to them, eg Traditional expectations of chastity led to thousands of Irish women being imprisoned at the Magdelene Laundries. Customs could be anything from how one treats another, to how they greet someone.

How important is tradition?

What are some rituals your culture undertakes?

What are some traditional values in your world? Does it effect daily life?

Are there any traditions that determine one's status?

Values and Opinions

Values and Opinions are the bread and butter of any culture. This is the way your culture sees the world and how they approach different life hurdles. These may differ with other cultures and be considered odd to outsiders, what one culture may value another may not and what opinion another holds, one may not. There will be historical and traditional reasons to why these values and opinions are held. Cultures usually have a paragon to which they hold their members to, a list of characteristics that they expect one to if not adhere to then aspire to. The Yoruba people value honesty, hard work, courage and integrity. Here are some questions to consider?

How important are these ethics and core values? Could somebody be ostracised for not living up to them?

What are some morals that clash with other cultures?

What does your culture precieved to be right? Or wrong?

What are some opinions that are considered to be taboo in your culture? Why?

Dress Code

For many cultures, the way somebody dresses can be important. History and ethics can effect how one is meant to be dressed such as an expectation of chastity, can impose strict modesty. While other cultures, put more importance on details, the different sorts of clothes worn and when or what colour one might wear. The Palestinian people (من النهر إلى البحر ، قد يكونون أحرارا) denoted different family ties, marriage status and wealth by the embroidery and detailing on their thoub.

Are there traditional clothes for your world? Are they something somebody wears on a daily basis or just on occasion?

Are there any rules around what people can wear?

What would be considered formal dress? Casual dress?

What would happen if somebody wore the wrong clothes to an event?

Language

Language can also be ingrained as part of a Culture. It can be a specific way one speaks or a an entirely different language. For example, in the Southern States of America, one can engage in a sort of double talk, saying something that sounds sweet whilst delivering something pointed. Bless their heart. I have a post on creating your own language here.

Arts, Music and Craft

Many cultures are known for different styles of dance, their artwork and crafts. Art is a great part of culture, a way for people to express themselves and their culture in art form. Dance can be an integral part of culture, such as céilí dance in Ireland or the Polka in the Czech Republic. Handicrafts could also be important in culture, such as knitting in Scottish culture and Hebron glass in Palestine. Music is also close to culture, from traditional kinds of singing such as the White Voice in Ukraine and the playing of certain instruments such as the mvet.

Food and Diet

The way a culture prepares or intakes or treats certain foods are important to a culture. In some cultures, there is a diet yo adhere to, certain foods are completely banned. With Jewish culture, pork is prohibited along with fish such as sturgeon, along with shellfish and certain fowl. Meat must also be prepared in a certain way and animal byproducts such as dairy, must never be created or even eaten around this meat. This is known as kosher. The way one consumes food is also important to culture. In some cultures, only certain people may eat together. Some cultures place important on how food is eaten. In Nigerian culture, the oldest guests are served first usually the men before the women. In Japanese culture, one must say 'itadakimasu' (I recieve) before eating. Culture may also include fasting, periods of time one doesn't intake food for a specific reason.

What are some traditional dishes in your world?

What would be a basic diet for the common man?

What's considered a delicacy?

Is there a societal difference in diet? What are the factors that effect diet between classes?

Is there any influence from other cuisines? If not, why not? If so, to what extent?

What would a typical breakfast contain?

What meals are served during the day?

What's considered a comfort food or drink?

Are there any restrictions on who can eat what or when?

Are there any banned foods?

What stance does your world take on alcohol? Is it legal? Can anybody consume it?

Are there any dining customs? Are traditions?

Is there a difference in formal meals or casual meals? If so, what's involved?

Are there any gestures or actions unacceptable at the dinner table?

How are guests treated at meals? If they are given deference, how so?

#Fantasy Guide to Building A Culture #As promised #If I fail my German exam I'm blaming ye #Culture #Building a culture #Fantasy Guide #WorldBuilding #WorldBuilding guide #WorldBuilding help #Writing help #writing #writeblr #writing resources #writing reference #writing advice #ask answered questions #writers #writing advice writing resources #spilled ink #ask answered

[goodbyelogik]

Vorführeffekt - the phenomenon that something which was previously working correctly, suddenly does not work correctly when one tries to demonstrate the operation to others;

#just posting some words that i find fascinating #german language #also it's the name of one of the chapters in trtd #but it's used like more metaphorically #more of a 'it's so simple it has like 0% chance of failing but it still does' feeling #trtd #the road to dresden

[clouds-of-wings]

Finally some new funny spam. One mail offers me a way to "manage my blood pressure", but the bot translated "manage" in such a way ("verwalten") that it now implies that my blood pressure is an external physical object or business that I am in charge of and whose parts I am supposed to consciously rearrange for my benefit. ("Regulieren" would have been an appropriate translation.)

The other mail pretends to be from AliExpress, wants me to do a survey and claims "We are listening", but translated in such a way ("Wir hören alle zu.") that it sounds like the AliExpress staff is an unruly 7th grade class that insists that all of them are obediently listening to the teacher's words. Which might be why the mails are coming from a .edu address.

"You can tell us how you truly feel." -> Overly literal translation: "Sie können uns mitteilen, wie Sie sich wirklich fühlen." -> Actually means: "You can tell us the honest truth about your general emotional state at the moment."

I love this, it's so funny. Think I'm gonna click the "Unsubscribe from these mails" link so they know that my mail address is real and I get even more of these spam mails.

#translation fail #german #spam

[sojutrait]

beloved sojutrait what is ur major im so curious

art history!! aka the most unemployed major according to studies i wish i was joking

#and a german minor ehe #all else fails i become a german teacher dlkwksl #asks #anon

[skitskatdacat63]

helloooo you haven’t heard from me in a while but since i consider u an f1 historian i just saw on tiktok a video of an intro (before the 2012 korean gp i assume) where they had the drivers with gangnam style as the music… i was wondering if you might have it since that has been driving me insaaaane 😭😭 thank you sm catie have a lovely day 🫶

Hallo!!!! Nice to see you again! I'm glad I can be held in such high esteem 😭 But please anon, we def saw the same tiktok, this one, right? A great thanks to the op on tiktok who linked me the video!!

Why did you have to force me think again about all the Gangnam Style stuff in F1 in 2012 though????(ex. BBC vid with PSY, vid/pics of Seb and Mark with PSY, both learning the dance, as well as other clips of drivers such as Felipe and Nico dancing)

#no because i spent literally an entire hour trying to find it myself and failed..... #i am so ashamed LMAO but thank god for that person linking it #and its so annoying bcs i literally looked on twt using the exact keywords and it didnt show up??? #AND ITS EVEN WORSE BCS I LITERALLY HAVE THAT TWT ACCOUNT OPEN IN ONE OF MY TABS #i digress: i like to make things hard for myself apparently #my search history was just me losing my whole fucking mind #though ive learned a lot about older german f1 content! #such as a commercial where niki lauda plays a cowboy as well as a michael schumacher rap #f1 needs to slay and be camp like this again(paraphrasing Cofi) #its so cringe but i love it #those pics tho of sebmark with psy haunt me tho 😭😭😭😭😭 like why did you make me think of that again #but jfc has it rly been 10+ yrs since gangnam style??????? #fernando alonso #sebastian vettel #kimi raikkonen #kimi räikkönen #lewis hamilton #michael schumacher #nico rosberg #(its so fucked up we didnt get mark or jenson) #f1 #formula 1 #2012 korean gp #2012 korean grand prix

[eisbecherovka]

finished reading shitshow dissertation. i googled the author fearing she would be a teacher (bc she studied lehramt) -- or worse, a professor -- and she's working as a graphic design consultant or something. thank god

#i'm not being elitist i'm being a hater #it was completely unacademic. zero analysis she just went digging for facts and put them on the page!! #i mean i do need facts but she just straight up failed to think critically #about the stuff she was putting on the page #when you are writing about the german empire and world war one you NEED to spare a crumb of critical thought #bc otherwise you sound like an early 20c race scientist #it was also organized so strangely. it felt like a bachelor level paper (not even a good one) #but it was 300 pages long #thesisposting

[tardis--dreams]

You know what? I give up on this paper once and for all. I'm not even ashamed anymore

#okay I'm a little ashamed #it's another 5 points i have to catch up with next semester #but it's making me want to kill myself and i don't even know if the professor would still accept it #(the original deadline was in October. i got an official extension until November. i guess it'd be just rude #to ask if it was still okay to send it #especially since i haven't done any substantial work on it #it's just bad. i hate the topic. i hate the way the professor views the subject 'language and emotion' #so that i cannot write what i want but would have to tailor it towards her views because otherwise I'd fail #and also i cannot write in german. i simply can not do it. ) #it's better to move on and focus on my last paper for last semester (official deadline is end of March #so I'm not behind for once) #and i should do the assignments for a module i should have finished 1 year ago #so i don't have to do that next semester #and i should start studying korean again so i don't make a complete fool of myself next semester #I have my first day of work in 2 weeks so I'll also have to focus on working (for money) from there on #I've been paralyzed by the thought of having to write this paper for way too long #the professor is not my boss anymore (i still have to work off some hours though) and even if she was #I'm so done being ashamed of myself for not being able to do certain things #i wanna give it my best from now on but not for this paper. it's done. #void screams

[zemfruit]

im starting to think that trying to learn a language by playing disco elysium is not the best of ideas

#the words are wording #yeag i had a woderful idea to try learning german by playing de in german #but i failed to rememebr just how fucked up and poetic the writing is lolll #i cant understand shit lol #but its fun and they have the quick language change thingy #so its not THAT bad #disco elysium #elektrochemie my bestie all the way

[mona-liar]

for anyone who agreed with my outrage at my writing-teacher saying a sentence should not be longer than 20 words today another teacher made it even worse by introducing the 7/15/7 rule which apparently states 7 letters per word, 15 words per sentence and 7 sentences per paragraph with 10% more for academic writing and I think I should be allowed to strangle whoever put this stupidity out into the world (which also I cannot find anywhere in writing so *doubt*) the anglo-centrification of writing will lead us to ruin I hate it so much

#bro we write in german I don't think there are any termini with less than 7 letters #and if you me read and entire text in this format I would fail you for thinking I didn't pass 4th grade

[mrs-gauche]

The German VA of Dorian posted a YouTube short today with a small scene from Inquisition. He often posts these types of videos of stuff he did in the past, but I don't think I have ever seen him post something about DA before. 👀 Could just be coincidence, but interesting timing though, right before the Game Awards....

#not getting any hopes up of course... #but he also recently posted videos with the German VAs of Hawke and Alistair 👀 #I remember meeting him this time around a year ago #when he told me he didn't know anything about DA4 lol #localization is usually done at the end of development #and it took them a year to localize DAI #not counting voice over for trailers or stuff like that 👀👀👀 #*tries not to get too hyped* #*fails miserably*

[betweenheroesandvillains]

ok obsessed bc it was always so normal to me that i never thought of it as weird but the fact that the 8pm tagesschau is such a strong contender that it forces EVERY channel, even the private ones, to start their evening shows at 8:15pm... sexy if i may say so myself

#watching a video and apparently sat1 tried to push their evening shows to 8pm but failed miserably thanks to tagesschau #german stuff #i want to make a poll thing out of it like. when is prime time tv and where are you from.

[urlocaltannenbaumm]

kghn where kgym puts his hand onto hins head will never fail me

#haikyuu!! #haikyuu #hq #hq!! #kghn will cheer me up #no matter what #even if i know i'm gonna fail my 12 page + essay tamil test #but idc #i gotta learn for german and english and maths #and KGHN ISN'T HELPING #BUT I STILL LOVE THEM🧡💙 #kghn #🧡💙 #kagehina #delete these tags if you ever plan to repost

[sobeksewerrat]

Good luck buddy

On the German diploma?? Thanks Enki

#sobek yes #enki<¾ #andrew failing at german

[hedonists]

how I love watching tv and seeing rich white male politicians debate over whether or not poor people deserve to live a life with dignity.

#nemesestext #ignore me #I hate rich people and I hate politicians #with only a few exceptions #german politicians stop shitting on the poor and other minorities challenge failed again

[sergeantjessi]

I'm one step closer to being a good German (just managed to open a bottle with something that isn't a bottle opener, in this case it was another bottle)

#a cashier tried to teach me in like 2016 but failed #and now i asked my bf to teach me. AND I DID IT #THE ENDORPHINSSSSSS #i am literally shaking. can't tell whether it's from the shock that the bottle was suddenly open #or happy chemicals. or my lack of food today #ANYWAY I'M SUPER PROUD OF MYSELF #own #the sergeant speaks #german