Comment on German joke

• crater2150@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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:…

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  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Germans hate humor so much that hey renamed “The Simpsons” to “Die Simpsons!” in German TV.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Die Bart, Die!

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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”.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    hm thanks

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  English and German derive from a common root language, so I’d honestly be surprised if there weren’t some that do.

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