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The best machine translation fail I’ve seen in quite a while. (source)

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Linguistics takes on the “What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?” quote-tweet meme. 

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Link to the original tweet 

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Me: Oh you know, it’s in the dative case, since the indirect object is there.

Friend: Dative? What’s a case?

Or better yet, understanding the cases in German perfectly since Latin has like 7 of them.

Me: Frau X, was sind die Locative, Ablative und Vocative cases auf Deutsch?

Teacher: Was?

[submitted by: vainlimeink]

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Some are understandable as metaphors or similes when translated, such as Spanish’s Octopus in a Garage or German’s Art without Bread, but German’s My dear Mister Singing-Contest is inexplainable.

[Submitted by: primarysourcebook]

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[submitted by: ijustwanttobeperceivedthewayiam]

And then when you become friends with them they refuse to speak the language with you. :(

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[submitted by: yourstargazing]

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Tedium.

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Oh Syntax tree..

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My Dad's response to his white co-workers making fun of his accent

White Co-Worker: That's not how you say it.

My Dad: But you knew what I meant so why do you have to make a big deal out of it.

White Co-Worker: Aww come on man, it's funny, lighten up will yah Nestor?

My Dad: You know I speak 5 languages, right? How many can you speak?

White Co-Worker: Just English

My Dad: Tell me something. What does a cow say?

White Co-Worker: Moo?

My Dad: That's right, the cows in my country say that too. You know why? They can only speak one language *walks away*

White Co-Worker: *sheds white tears*

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submitted by her-safe-haven forever ago. 

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