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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That honestly sounds like it would be hilarious.
Does it translate well back into English enough to get the joke?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn't actually make sense in German, but that's part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.

As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like "chop a tree down" followed immediately be "chop a tree up".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Hacke einen Baum runter.

Hacke einen Baum hoch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kleine Hiebe fällen große Eichen!

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