Let's have some diversity

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Let's have some diversity - tchncs

Lemmy

Dat lijkt me een goed idee :)
Post dan een paar memes in het Nederlands
Hey iets verstaanbaars!
We don’t all sleep. Some of us have amphetamine addictions.
Or hungry infants.
Or general insomnia, aggravated by the anxiety of living under a rising fascist regime.
The few of us awake appreciate your antics.

I’m supposed to be asleep?

Nice try, dweeb.

I wanna be asleep lol
Me rolling away from the haters
Min valross har felfri triangel med fika.
I don’t understand, it’s 2am and my memes aren’t in german, what’s happening?
Memes to moimois is freaking funny (me = moi in French)

Yes, we do that in German, too. Me=mich -> meme=Michmich.

According to someone from rance they do the moimoi-thing, too.

I had never seen it in comments from Quebecois, don’t know if it’s used on Reddit (where the community is actually active) and it’s just too new… We already did literal translations of some things, like a post is a poteau (as in, a post that you plant in the ground to build a fence or to fix a mailbox to…), upvotes are positivotes… So why not moimois!
positivotes sounds much happier
But negativotes sounds much sadder
The use of moimoi is itself a meme.

Memeception

Moimoiception en français!

What do the Germans and/or French call selfies?
Don’t know about the French, but in German you can’t go wrong with Selbsties.
Selbstchen, surely. Or Selbstli if you’re fancy?

Selbstli

That sounds swiss though.

In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.
I really thought meme originated from the French meme, meaning self. I thought ppl used it like me_irl, moi meme. I’m realizing this is based on nothing and I might have totally made it up.
“Même” by itself means “same”, “c’est la même chose” “it’s the same thing”, with moi (moi-même) it’s “myself”. “Self” by itself (feels weird to say that) would be translated as “soi”.
Me, my memes and I
Moi, mes moimois et moi
Au secours c’est trop bizarre à lire “moimoi”.

It’s similar in Spanish. “Mí mismo” means “myself.”

= me
mismo = same

imo the actual etymology is weirder

it was invented by richard dawkins in the selfish gene in the 1970s

it’s used to describe an “idea-gene”; something that spreads and mutates not through biological means but through communication

like a mind-virus

hence why it sounds like a portmanteau of “memory” and “gene”

The more you learn 🤓!
Damn am i the only one who knows that meme comes from “culture gene”?
I’m pretty sure our insomniacs still outnumber the Europeans.

Look at the time, it’s already french pickiness o’clock!

The correct way to phrase this is “et poster des moimois dans toutes les langues”.

Sorry, I had to, it’s a cultural thing.

Ou sont les frêres et sœrs françaises? Aidéz nous s’il vous plâites!

Eh, last time I spoke french was some 15± years ago, of course I had to make some mistake.

Mais merci pour last correction, sinon on n’apprend rien.

I miserably failed at german in school. You did way better than I would have done in your language ;).
On dit “faire des poteaux”, pas “poster”!

Just because the Americans are asleep doesn’t mean the Australians learnt to speak other languages!

Heck, I’m not sure we’ve even got the hang of English half the time.

I thought we were calling the thing you speak Strayan!
Pro tip: learning French and German nets you up to 75% better English skills.
Unless you’re Irish. Then your English stays the same and your Irish fluency decreases.
At least y’all can say this sentence
Aaron Earned An Iron Urn (Baltimore Accent) (@dooleyfunny)

YouTube

Can confirm, Baltimore has this southern adjacent accent with a northern twang.

That is a MASSIVE tongue twister for northern maryalnd

This language nerd thanks you for that gem. I just laughed so hard it turned into a cough.
Ja, lad os alle bande på dansk, svensk, norsk, og xhosa!
أتفق معك كل الإتفاق
moderatorerna sover, skicka mejmejs
Faut savoir écrire dans la langue qd même…
Les “memes” sont-ils vraiment appelés des “moimois” en Français?

Ouais e non, ça dépend de la personne. Je les appelle dès mêmes.

Mais je parlais de “en tout les langues” pcq c’est féminin et pluriel, donc “en toutes les langues”*…