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Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!

I am guessing this comes directly from German

The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:

Chair:

Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere (“chair, seat, throne”), from Latin cathedra (“seat”).

Stuhl:

[…] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ […]

(Old high German stuol meaning ‘seat’ or ‘throne’

Das Wort Stuhl […] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.

(The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix ‘l’ to the root ‘*stā’ or ‘*stǝ’ which means ‘to stand’)

So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool. “Schemel” seems to come from “scamilla”, Latin for small bench.

I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it’s interesting :D

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frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yes always good to see a fellow frog!

So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.

That is interesting.

Thanks for the info.

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- LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.
  
  Maybe I put it wrong, but it works even better in modern Germany: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
  
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  - frog@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s probably me misunderstanding. Thank you for the correction.
    
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gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool.

So what you’re saying is that the meme doesn’t work in German either, because the furniture in the meme would be referred to as a “Schemel” rather than a “Stuhl”

This meme is an abortion of human language smh

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- LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No no, it works even better: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
  
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