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  • My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.







  • I mean, as long as you’re hyperaware of the risk and that if something seems weird to you, it very likely IS weird and shouldn’t go into your Anki deck, and even if it seems to make sense, it might still be VERY wrong language, you might use ich_iel as a kind of indicator to see how far you’ve come?

    There is the “SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN” thing so anything even remotely English (or other non-German language, except Dutch if we’re having a good day) will be rewarded with loads of snark. But if you already feel comfortable (shit)posting in German, you’re not a total beginner anymore anyway. We’re generally welcoming of people trying to learn the language, even on ich_iel. So if every once in a while you ask very nicely about a detail or two (preferably not just “hey where am i what is this”), you might have someone try their best to help you as well :) there just might not BE any accessible explanation for a LOT of things that doesn’t require several paragraphs of background information so ymmv.



  • You REALLY don’t want to use the things posted in ich_iel as learning material. Most of them use deliberately poor language, not just puns, but our memes are frequently based on badly translated English memes (which means that even if an English “translation” seems to make sense, you’d be learning nonsense). They don’t make sense to native speakers who aren’t “in the know” and they’re useless if you’re just learning. Any machine translation would be lost entirely because there is no context, no grammar or anything. Do yourself a favour and flee this place until you’ve built a solid foundation of German to recognise what is a normal sentence and what is dumbassery on the internet.