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Quand rance_iel?
🇮🇹 in the corner, crying
DAS GEFÄLLT MIR
How do you turn with that?
Frankly, one would assume.
Den er jeg med på. 👍
GUYS! WAKE UP! THE EUROPEANS ARE TOOTING OUR LANGES!
NOT ON MY WATCH!
SIR, IT IS 9:30 PM ON THE WEST COAST!
GIT YER MOOMOOS OUTTA HERE!
YOU HEARD THE MAN, GET ALL YER YERSPEEAN MOOMOOS INTA MY TENT FER PROWCESSIN : bangs Billy club on garbage can lid:
I miss working night shifts. The culture, the languages, the bigotry between groups of people I can’t tell a part.
Was ist denn hier los!?
Okay, pero どの言語で sol ich poster?
Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!
Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.
Pro tip: learning French and German nets you up to 75% better English skills.
Unless you’re Irish. Then your English stays the same and your Irish fluency decreases.
Yea, naur.
At least y’all can say this sentence
This language nerd thanks you for that gem. I just laughed so hard it turned into a cough.
Can confirm, Baltimore has this southern adjacent accent with a northern twang.
That is a MASSIVE tongue twister for northern maryalnd
I thought we were calling the thing you speak Strayan!
Memes to moimois is freaking funny (me = moi in French)
Yes, we do that in German, too. Me=mich -> meme=Michmich.
According to someone from rance they do the moimoi-thing, too.
I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don’t know if it’s used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it’s just too new… We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to…), upvotes are positivotes… So why not moimois!
The use of moimoi is itself a meme.
Memeception
Moimoiception en français!
positivotes sounds much happier
But negativotes sounds much sadder
What do the Germans and/or French call selfies?
Don’t know about the French, but in German you can’t go wrong with Selbsties.
Selbstchen, surely. Which also has the dubious honour of having six consonants in a row. Or Selbstli if you’re fancy?
Selbstli
That sounds swiss though.
Hence fancy ;)
In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.
I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I’m realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.
imo the actual etymology is weirder
it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s
it’s used to describe an “idea-gene”; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication
like a mind-virus
hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of “memory” and “gene”
Damn am i the only one who knows that meme comes from “culture gene”?
The more you learn 🤓!
“Même” by itself means “same”, “c’est la même chose” “it’s the same thing”, with moi (moi-même) it’s “myself”. “Self” by itself (feels weird to say that) would be translated as “soi”.
It’s similar in Spanish. “Mí mismo” means “myself.”
mí = me
mismo = sameMe, my memes and I
Moi, mes moimois et moi
Au secours c’est trop bizarre à lire “moimoi”.
Ah, true, sorry!
OUI, COMMENCONS AVEC LA LANGUE ET DES PETITES ROUES POUR LES PIEDS!!!
In this instance we speak American!! Check instance Oh wait.
Those filthy Brits can’t fool me. Speak American!
Oh, stewardess, I speak American
clears throat 🦅 🍔 🛻Don’t call me Shirley
I love waking up in the morning and seeing all the wackiness the rest of the world concocted.
Y’all are all have some amazing and funny cultures.
El señor de la nooocheee
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