I still don't know what ich_iel is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
It's the German version of me_irl. Stands for "Ich _ im echten Leben" and is a direct translation of the English
Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)
it is only me_irl in name though, it is a general meme / conversational community with the obnoxious (and over used to death) in joke that is zangendeutsch.
"Zangendeutsch" means an aggressive way of removing the influence of english into the german language. But outside of ich_iel we write in english as everyone. Which is obviously a little bit weird, isn't it?
No, that's wrong. Zangendeutsch is all about English influence and playfully literal translations even when there are better German words. So you need to translate it back to English and into German again to decode it and that's the fun about it.
Omg I was reading it as "ich lel" not "ich iel" this whole time π thanks
It started as a German version of me_irl (hence the name "ich im echten Leben") and developed a culture on its own including bad translations from English and other insiders
It's mostly ramen, cows and trains now.
"So, you said you're auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?"
"Uhh... memes. You can tell they're fire, but I can't read them."
How are there so many of them
That sounds linke you are not one of them, yet your posting history suggests to differ.
My cover is blown π₯Έ
"Toastbrotmann" ist jetzt auch nicht wirklich die beste Verkleidung.
aber auch nicht die schlechteste
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I find the lack of "SPRICH" in here disturbing.
But there is a lot of "DEUTSCH" in here, so...
Whenever I see Lemmy without being logged in, it's a wall of German and all I can think of is "ach, du lieber... das ist not eine booby!"
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Are we learning German now?
If you use ich_iel to learn German, your next visit to Germany could be... interesting.
There are several steps between learning German and comprehending whatever the fuck we're doing over there.
It's all one person, me and my other personalities.
To try and answer the question of why so many of them. Please note this is broad generalizations:
german people have large privacy and date security fears. This has kept them off of many other platforms. Most people in my friends circle never had a MySpace / Facebook... Being in an anonymous space like here is nice.
they also are and have been technologically behind in many ways. Bringing them slower to other platforms that they would have started off on, making it so they didn't use any. Ignorance and fear of technology and privacy fear combined with being technologically slower meant they were going on other platforms in a time when the platforms were getting known as "bad, mentally harmful, data mining & selling machines".
English language skills are lower in Germany (outside of Berlin). Many tourists don't see this as they go to touristy things (hotels, attractions) where they speak English. It is easy in platforms like this or reddit to be in a German speaking bubble. People who speak lots of English like their neighbors the Dutch, would more likely just post in English as everyone can then understand it.
Source: my opinions - but I do live in Germany.
While it's true that Germans might value their privacy more than others, the fediverse is incredibly niche and most people either use the big corpo apps or nothing. Also lemmy is not anonymous, at most maybe pseudonymous.
I really don't get point 2. Isn't being a member of the fediverse rather advanced? But also how are Germans technologically behind regarding common personal life?
I'm Gen Z and almost all of my friends know English well enough to have a conversation online. Granted, I work in IT, but not all of my friends are technology people and this still holds.
Counterpoint: I think Germany is just a rather big Western country with many technologically interested people and people who value fediverse ideals like being free from corporate influence. There are dozens of us!
The conflict between seeing so many German users but also wanting more people on Lemmy altogether. Alright Germans... You win this time
Hallo :3
