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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wow, people translate Zangendeutsch into English

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

I’m a native English speaker with very good German married to a native German speaker and every few weeks I come across something that I just don’t get. My husband has now developed a Pavlovian response to me saying “so you remember Zangendeutsch?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm curious: is it intuitive for you once you know or confusing or funny or all of the above?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Winzig-weich took way too long for the payoff, but generally I chuckle a little. I do absolutely worry that I’m internalizing bad English linguistic interference though