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Lumidaub ,

You REALLY don’t want to use the things posted in ich_iel as learning material. Most of them use deliberately poor language, not just puns, but our memes are frequently based on badly translated English memes (which means that even if an English “translation” seems to make sense, you’d be learning nonsense). They don’t make sense to native speakers who aren’t “in the know” and they’re useless if you’re just learning. Any machine translation would be lost entirely because there is no context, no grammar or anything. Do yourself a favour and flee this place until you’ve built a solid foundation of German to recognise what is a normal sentence and what is dumbassery on the internet.

JetpackJackson ,
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Oh, bummer. I’m not the OP but I was also trying to interact with the ich_iel community and make memes and stuff to practice my German.

Lumidaub ,

That’s something we do get a lot, even in the before times on the other place, because ich_iel is highly productive. Sorry.

JetpackJackson ,
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Keine Sorge, it’s ok. Stuff happens. I do want to ask though, if I’m focusing on making memes with proper grammar and such, and interacting with the community in the comments, is that better or would it still be doomed to fail because of the “needing to be in-the-know” stuff? Cause I did make a meme for ich_iel here on lemmy, and I think it went alright.

Lumidaub ,

I mean, as long as you’re hyperaware of the risk and that if something seems weird to you, it very likely IS weird and shouldn’t go into your Anki deck, and even if it seems to make sense, it might still be VERY wrong language, you might use ich_iel as a kind of indicator to see how far you’ve come?

There is the “SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN” thing so anything even remotely English (or other non-German language, except Dutch if we’re having a good day) will be rewarded with loads of snark. But if you already feel comfortable (shit)posting in German, you’re not a total beginner anymore anyway. We’re generally welcoming of people trying to learn the language, even on ich_iel. So if every once in a while you ask very nicely about a detail or two (preferably not just “hey where am i what is this”), you might have someone try their best to help you as well :) there just might not BE any accessible explanation for a LOT of things that doesn’t require several paragraphs of background information so ymmv.

godless ,
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The memes aren't worth translating, tbh. They are mostly terrible word plays.

sabreW4K3 ,
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