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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 29 points 10 months ago

Der bëpen-böpenmann.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Domo arigato Mr. Bepenbopenmann

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago

*Herr Bepenbopenmann

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 42 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] Hasuris@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago

Klingt wie der Bi-Ba-Butzemann und das ist kein Roboter.

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

das Stör(t) mich

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[–] dudinax@programming.dev 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Germans when you say

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Once I dared to not call a Blahaj a "die Transgenderenhaifisch".

[–] SternburgExport@feddit.de 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

excuse me but its “Das Transgenderhaifischplüschtier“

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Incredible they have a word for that. They really think of everything.

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The German language is like legos. You can just slap words together to make new ones.

Like glove. It's Handschuh in German, which id hand-shoe. The language is full of words like this.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Such a shame that the German for shoe isn't foot-glove.

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

ë needs to become a letter in German

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It is! Even if it's very, very rare.

But it does exist, for example in the Name of Bernhard Hoëcker, where it denotes a pronounciation of Ho-ecker instead of Höcker.

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[–] darkmogool@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

there is no need for it… but ß needs to be gone

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ß is my favorite. All the fun of cursive qs and zs, with significantly more applicability

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Now that we've got ẞ I'm fine with keeping ß

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 21 points 10 months ago

Are you Swiss or something? ẞ is be best letter.

[–] wieson@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago

Die you know, that ß is more frequently used than x, y, q and even j?

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Written by the Czech Karel Čapek in the play Rossum's Universal Robots

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:

  • Robot is unique and alone
  • Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
  • Robots discarded after their usefulness expired

And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)

[–] rumschlumpel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 10 months ago

ich_iel users be like

[–] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago

Was zum fick ist ein biben böbermanm?!

[–] CreamRod@lemmy.wtf 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's "die bëpen-böpenmann", stupid!

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[–] dadGPT@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

how many german robots does it take to change a light bulb?

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Supreme german LED light bulbs do not need changing.

[–] teodor_from_achewood@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] casmael@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

However it is very unlikely that a lightbulb would need to be changed at the bëpen böpenmann facility because the electronics are very well maintained

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Germans are efficient and not very funny.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

Just like our bëpen-böpenmänner.

[–] meowmeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

log by bolb*

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Both are correct. German is funny that way.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

One is plural and the other is singular.

However "die" is also the article for female nouns.

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Johanno@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If read in German it would be literally translated mean: The beard, the.

But "die" is wrong for beard. It should be "der"

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] 108@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Makes me chuckle thinking of the show “Mr. Bepen-bopenmann”

[–] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Bepe bope man, loved it

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