• lugal
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        3 months ago

        It’s basically an insider from a German meme community here on lemmy. The community is called ich_iel (a translation of me_irl) and people use bad literal translations from English as a joke and call it Zangendeutsch. Butterfliege is a literal translation of butterfly but not the real translation.

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      2 months ago

      I said Schmierkampagne in real life yesterday.

      I’m a native English speaker and Zangendeutsch is ruining me.