Heh, “Shield Toads” :)
When people speak English but with German grammar
Submitted 1 week ago by Hubi@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50jkO2s4Sp0
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plasticcheese@lemmy.one 1 week ago
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week 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?)
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 week ago
Can we just appreciate "breakfasted"? Why doesn't English have that?
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 week ago
English does that all the time, breakfast is actually a very good example. Toothpaste. Hairstyle. Bedroom.
DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
doodledup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No matter how bad your English is, nobody would ever speak like that in Germany.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week ago
The video isn’t trying to “sound like a German speaker failing English”. It’s simply English vocabulary imposed over German syntax.
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s fun, reminds me of high school Shakespeare performances
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 week ago
It’s exactly Shakespeare