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deacon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you take it literally, yes, but it is usually used in a hiring context.

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks. I wasted a year on Duolingo and got very little idioms, just some supposedly common sayings like das is schnee von gestern, oder es kostet nur einen apfel und ein ei.

    Honestly, ich_iel has done more for my understanding than Duolingo did, but it is still almost nil.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Careful, Zangendeutsch is a trap for English speakers. Like, not an intentional one, but you have to check the vocab you pick up there.

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    • islandcoda42@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m still working on my die/ der/ das ‘s

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  suchen = to search/look for

  and ch doesn’t make a k sound, not even close.

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aaah, thanks, I had a hard time to figure out what is supposed to be funny here.

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  • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m fairly certain the German ch sound doesn’t exist in English

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    • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Made even worse by the fact that depending on the word it can make two different sounds and neither of them exist in English

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In some areas people pronounce an initial ch as a k, like kina instead china. But apart from that neither of the two actual ch sounds exists in English.

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      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Und often enough, ch is pronounced (t)sh, like China, duchess, choose or Apache.

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  • nightlily@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unless you’re a Berliner, but then you have to wonder why your baked goods are talking, and why they insist on being called Pfannkuchen instead.

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well it is close, though.

      It’s really not though?

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s not a valid comparison at all, and it’s not pedantic to point that out no matter how preemptively you claim that it is.

        Bilapial ≠ lapiodental! It’s not that hard to understand.

        The entire similarity between K and the German Ch is based on them both being velar (and unvoiced). You’re crafting a strawman by focusing on the “fricative and plosive” manner while ignoring that the sound is made at the same place.

        S and T are almost a better comparison because they’re both technically alveolar, but that ignores the fact that S has a dental component. Try making a T sound and then an S sound without moving your teeth. It won’t work.

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      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s like saying F is close to P

        Korean for example doesn’t have an F sound, a lot of loanwords that have an F sound use P instead, France turns into Prangseu and coffee to copy.

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      • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In Dutch, a T is sometimes pronounced S

        Politie (police) is pronounced polisie for example

        In the word politiek (politics) it remains a T sound

        Democratie -> democrasie

        Etcetera

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and ch doesn’t make a k sound, not even close.

    Go back to school.

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    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is about German, not English

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      • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It is about English, because the whole joke is how it sounds in English.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just so happen to have passed by one of my old schools, what should I do next?

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  • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Coming back to this thread, because sometimes it actually is pronounced as a k

    e.g. Fuchs, Lachs, wachsen

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but only in combination with an s, so it’s chs that’s pronounced as ks.

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      • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        oooh good point

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