Comment on German joke
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoHow would a German joke work based on english homonyms?
So I went and googled it out of curiosity, after remembering that German for was/were (in some form anyway) is ‘war’.
I found this in a thread about Downfall and a translated joke where someone was wondering what the original was:
The German pun uses ‘Warenhaus’ department store and “Da war 'n Haus” - “there was/used to be a house”.
hm thanks
Germans hate humor so much that hey renamed “The Simpsons” to “Die Simpsons!” in German TV.
Die Bart, Die!
Oh a person who speaks German can’t be evil. Not Guilty!
English and German derive from a common root language, so I’d honestly be surprised if there weren’t some that do.
crater2150@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s just a coincidence that the same words are homonyms in English and German in this case: “Warehouses” = “Warenhäuser”, “There were houses” = “Dort waren Häuser”. You don’t even have to translate to colloquial German as the other comment suggests, a word-by-word translation works here.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You might like this (to be read aloud in French):
Un petit d’un petit
S’étonne aux Halles
Un petit d’un petit
Ah! degrés te fallent
Indolent qui ne sort cesse
Indolent qui ne se mène
Qu’importe un petit d’un petit
Tout Gai de Reguennes.
Tap for spoiler
en.wikipedia.org/…/Mots_d'Heures:_Gousses,_Rames:…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wow ok that’s clever
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This. I asked myself this and that and was amazed the joke worked in both languages.
I mean to be fair, English and German are in the same language family.
SirLeToet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So are English and French. And English and Frysian. English is a moshpit of languages.
More a happy coincidence that it lines up.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Dutch is wild to hear or see because it feels like alternate universe English.