#german tag

[duppertose]

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Hallo deutsches Tumblr! BOO!

Bestimmt habe ich wichtige Riegel (Definition streitbar) vergessen, klärt mich gerne auf!

Happy Halloween ihr kleinen Racker! 🎃

[wodkapudding]

hier ist unsere karte. erster detektiv, justus jonas. zweiter detektiv, peter shaw. girlbossing & gaslighting, clarissa franklin.

[rogue-bard]

I think we should change the proverb.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

anyway this reminds me of this WILD concept that's been adopted in German cities which they call "Grüne Welle" (green wave) where they coordinate traffic lights on long roads so that if you go about as fast as the speed limit, all your traffic lights will be green and you won't have to stop. this is to aid traffic flow, reduce emissions and it also makes driving so much less frustrating.

the uk has never heard of this concept and is allergic to implementing anything that would make the lives of its citizens easier. you WILL stand at every traffic light. it is faster and easier by far to navigate cities here by bike (but quite unsafe). if you're used in any way to user-friendly city design, you will fucking suffer driving in uk cities

please tell me if this green wave is a thing in other places??? or if its a german exclusive??? thank you

[4077thswamprat]

I'm rewatching some Mash in the German translation but with English subtitles, because I am curious about the difference and it's hilarious. I started with Welcome to Korea and it's even worse (affectionate) than I thought. Apart from the atrocious choice of voice actors, whoever wrote this translation had no idea what they were doing, apparently. Funniest bits include:

Hawk's "You've heard of a military post? Our's is a compost." got translated to "You know what an MP is? That's how they introduce themselves." Which makes absolutely no sense in context

Radar's Grape Nehi constantly gets called Grapefruit juice despite obviously being purple. So did germans in the 70s not know what Grapefruits were? I'm confused.

the very quick muffled sentence from Hawkeye about how they should start duzing each other before they get used to 'sie'. Love to see it.

[buildarocketboys]

Top 5 German things? (not asking out of 'national pride' because that's nonexistent, but because I remember you spent time there a while ago)

- how much the grammar makes sense!! it's why I got so much further with German than Spanish haha

- the food! honestly I feel like German food gets a bad rap and maybe it's just bc I'm British and our food also gets a bad rap, but most of it slaps imo

- Christmas markets! Especially shout-out to the medieval Christmas market in Esslingen, that was so good

- pretty buildings in the old town part of many cities

- cheap university costs (and cheap semester bus passes that you could also use to get the train to Stuttgart and a bunch of different places in badem Württemberg although I realise that might be specific to my experiences at Tübingen)

[rachedurst]

realistically i know that bitch emil as a certified german boy is NOT having beautiufl golden locks. He has strassenköterblond hair most likely lets be real. Lets be true to ourselves. The chicken theme is irrelevant hes a little german boy first and foremost

[zeilenkrieg]

coldmirror liefert wieder ab

Tag yourself ich bin homosexuell flip-flop

[miss-shirley]

30.04.23 - Day 14/100

Walpurgis night is celebrated in Germany tonight, marking the day all the witches meet on the Brocken mountain, the highest peak of the Harz mountains (also called Blocksberg) to dance and bond with the devil 🧙‍♀️ There's lots of small festivals around the Brocken and I usually love visiting but with my exam prep, unfortunately I couldn't swing it this year. Instead I took a peak into one of my favourite childhood novels 'The Little Witch'.

spent the weekend making the materials for the exam

finally finished up the summaries for the oral exam

prepared my other lessons for the week

[oskar-vajld]

My German lang teacher yoinked me from two other classes and now I have twice as many German classes in order to prepare for DSD II

Gott hilf mir 😭

[wodkapudding]

pov bob andrews

jedes mal, wenn deine cousine zu besuch kommt, wirst du verschleppt oder eingesperrt

+ bonus:

wenn du dich weigerst, deine cousine zu besuchen, kriegst du was über die rübe und verlierst kurzfristig das gedächtnis

[flodaya]

girl math or like Germans have been saying for decades milchmädchen rechnung

[rogue-bard]

I keep reading all yall's tags and notes on my lioness meme post, and I have arrived at the conclusion, that we have another "is the dress blue and black or white and gold" situation on our hands.

Only much more potentially deadly for the people of Berlin.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

tthere seems to be an overlap between German and Autistic. so much so that ive been joking for years that its the modern counterpart to "Gay or European". German or Autistic?

ok lets have a look at overlaps

Direct communication, often interpreted as rude by people of other cultures/neurotypes

Drive towards efficiency and optimisation. We WILL find the best way of doing this

Precision and punctuality, adherence to rules (if rules make sense)

Don't like bigotry (innate sense of justice/trained sense of justice cus of the awful history our country did, still fairly recently)

Prefers certain textures and tastes (BREAD. nuff said)

Get overstimulated if food is too flavourful/spicy

Change Scary

im only saying this cus I'm like, borderline autistic I have many traits but a lot of them are just German Things and now my partner has been listening to a German youtuber who said "Now people often think I'm autistic, cus they think I'm rude. I think they're wrong, I'm just German" and I laughed so hard at that cus I relate a lot

If you're german and/or autistic PLEASe let me know your thougths

[hecckyeah]

OH MY GOSHHHH reading a romance in german for the first time and THERE'S A WHOLE NEW LAYER OF ADORABLE because it's that moment they switch from SIE TO DU - FROM FORMAL TO INFORMAL. that's just SO DELICIOUS. I'm screeching about this. I CAN'T.

[sailor-swerf]

Keine Frau die durch SelfID bzw. Männer die sich als Frau identifizieren verletzt oder traumatisiert wurde, ist weniger Wert als Frauen denen das selbe mit „cis Männern“ passiert ist.

Es gibt keine guten und schlechten Opfer.

Es gibt keine Hierarchie, welche Täter weniger schuld sind und welche nicht.

Keine Frau muss soetwas hinnehmen, nur um nicht zu „diskriminieren“ oder sich für eine „gute Sache“ zu opfern.