When people speak English but with German grammar

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• paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s fun, reminds me of high school Shakespeare performances

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s exactly Shakespeare

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• plasticcheese@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heh, “Shield Toads” :)

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s kind of funny how extremely similar English and German are, but you notice it only when you neither natively speak. Because of that doesn’t the video even off to me sound.

  (And yes, I’m doing it on purpose. Why not?)

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• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we just appreciate "breakfasted"? Why doesn't English have that?

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It should be “I broke fast”, not “I breakfasted”, there’s already a verb in there but people have forgotten, TBH “To have break fast” is quite questionable grammar. It’s different in German, “Frühstück” means “early piece”, an adjective-noun compound which then can be fed through the usual verbification rules.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I have gathered. In German you can just make up words, it it makes sense everyone will just go along with it.

    There are a lot of words in English that could exist but if you made them someone would look at like you are stupid for thinking something that isn’t a word is a word. You can’t just make words.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      English does that all the time, breakfast is actually a very good example. Toothpaste. Hairstyle. Bedroom.

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• DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Haha, I am a native German speaker, and I had a hard time following them without looking at the subtitles. But then, grammar is a fickle bitch in all languages.

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• doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No matter how bad your English is, nobody would ever speak like that in Germany.

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  • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The video isn’t trying to “sound like a German speaker failing English”. It’s simply English vocabulary imposed over German syntax.

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