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German joke (media.piefed.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 14 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

How would a German joke work based on english homonyms?

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Germans hate humor so much that hey renamed "The Simpsons" to "Die Simpsons!". "Die Simpsons!"!!

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's just a coincidence that the same words are homonyms in English and German in this case: "Warehouses" = "Warenhäuser", "There were houses" = "Dort waren Häuser". You don't even have to translate to colloquial German as the other comment suggests, a word-by-word translation works here.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

This. I asked myself this and that and was amazed the joke worked in both languages.

I mean to be fair, English and German are in the same language family.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

English and German derive from a common root language, so I'd honestly be surprised if there weren't some that do.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So I went and googled it out of curiosity, after remembering that German for was/were (in some form anyway) is 'war'.

I found this in a thread about Downfall and a translated joke where someone was wondering what the original was:

The German pun uses 'Warenhaus' department store and "Da war 'n Haus" - "there was/used to be a house".

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago

hm thanks