general-2

[sudden panther]

Out of the kindness of your hearts, will someone please bestow onto me a sentence?

[pseudo trail]

arrem, no

ok

fine

Gib mir Satz

the latest single from the viral music sensation, Ich bin Singer

wait that works though right

[sudden panther]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bored-unimpressed-cat-5gUnOrltPvZzW This server, waiting for Flops to deliver.

[pseudo trail]

because occupations too cool for school articles

[quasi merlin]

still waiting

[shy bobcat]

on what

[quasi merlin]

Fläpps.

[sudden panther]

When Flops finally delivers.

[shy bobcat]

I was about to say

inb4 flappers translation

what is flöp trying to translate atm

[sudden panther]

Simple questions.

I'll just spam Flop memes until she figures it out, I guess.

[shy bobcat]

oh yeah, transl8eroonis are actually structured now 😦

[sudden panther]

Yeah and she can't even handle those.

[shy bobcat]

I have not heard fläpps' accent yet, how french is it

😩

[sudden panther]

https://giphy.com/gifs/disney-dog-no-3XiQswSmbjBiU When Flops delivers and it's wrong.

Very.

[fair iron]

^

The IT Crowd. ❤

[shy bobcat]

when flöp goes to sleep halfway during a translation 😦

[fair iron]

Pause for effect.

[sudden panther]

Ari you need a picture. 😦

[shy bobcat]

I am not a memer

[quasi merlin]

B&

[shy bobcat]

I leave the meme to thee 😩

[placid heath]

If you are no memer then you need to refresh your knowledge on the feuchtesten Maimais on the Welt asap

[sudden panther]

https://giphy.com/gifs/boy-meets-world-YPgEMyIKuSlpK when flöp goes to sleep halfway during a translation 😦

[shy bobcat]

🔨 arrem take this, use it on me

it's for the greater benefit

[quasi merlin]

That's just an ordinary hammer.

@ocean robin Are you alive?

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin well smashing my head in, banning me, both have the same effect of getting me to shut up and stop being a non memer here

🤷

[nocturne spruce]

one is much easier than the other

[sudden panther]

https://giphy.com/gifs/grave-uYsuqAWsJX8sw Flops comes back to life, 1845, not colorized.

[quasi merlin]

Yes, but the former might actually affect the rest of your life.

[placid heath]

apology for poor english
where were you when OP dies?
i was sat at home when pjotr ring
'OP is kill'
'no'

[sudden panther]

u didnt telld us what were u eeting

[pine ginkgo]

did flops flee again?

[placid heath]

i was think it too nswf

[sudden panther]

Sure did. You can enjoy some fresh Flop memes in the meantime.

[shy bobcat]

flopp ist wieder weggefloppt

[quasi merlin]

Ay, this is so annoying. 😛

Let's torture Arizona with modal particles or something.

[shy bobcat]

ok

[placid heath]

Let me just charge my (modal) particle cannon

[shy bobcat]

thing with modal particles is you can't really translate them into english

🤔

[ocean robin]

I was eating. Woo.

[placid heath]

Mwahaha! Eat modal electrons!

[sudden panther]

https://giphy.com/gifs/action-7SrHwak3yoO9a Korea teaching particles, 1955, colorized.

[thick charm]

I thought you meant the country

[quasi merlin]

Das kann man dann ja wohl doch nicht mal eben so einfach machen.

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

Flops. back. to. work.

[ocean robin]

mir hat nichts verstanden

[quasi merlin]

*Ich habe nichts verstanden

[sudden panther]

Flops. No meme german until you're at least B2.

[quasi merlin]

^

[ocean robin]

Mika that waa on purpose.

And aaaaw.

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin that just means "indeed, you can't really do that all that easily" but with some more weird particles

😛

[placid heath]

Meme german is illegal for A2/A1.

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin no one can tell when you do bad german on purpose

[quasi merlin]

^

[ocean robin]

lol

[shy bobcat]

bc your regular german isn't great either

🤷

[sudden panther]

🔥

[ocean robin]

Can understand someh- oh dear.

[shy bobcat]

and when I do purposely bad german I do really bad German

[sudden panther]

Now go learn some stuff.

[fair iron]

You've caught Arizona in a bad mood today, Flappy.

[ocean robin]

Yes.

[shy bobcat]

"isch bin haben nichst verstehten"

[ocean robin]

lel

Meme German at its finest

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin jk we love you here

tough love 😘

[fair iron]

The great thing about being fluent is that you can write worse German than most others.
After all, you won't accidentally say the correct thing.

[ocean robin]

same ❤

[sudden panther]

Und wenn ich tue zweckig schlect Deutsche, ich tue eigentlich schlechte Deutsche

[fair iron]

Syntax started out well, non-native confirmed.

[ocean robin]

wot

[fair iron]

Just take all the letters and rearrange them in a random order.

[placid heath]

haha ich kan garniecht schlect doitsch spreken weil ichh kome aus SCHLAND

[sudden panther]

That's just a happy coincidence. I translated the english one word for word.

[ocean robin]

[quasi merlin]

Mir Deutsche sein hart schlechtes ist. (warning: meme)

[ocean robin]

lel

[sudden panther]

ANYWAY LESS MEMES MORE FLOPPING OR ILL SHOOT UR DOGGOS

[placid heath]

Best deutsch baguette ist sein

[sudden panther]

OR AS THEY SAY IN DUTCH, ZIJN HOOD DODEN

[quasi merlin]

J'ai une baguette dans mon pantalon.

[ocean robin]

AHHH BUT I DON'T HAVE DOGGO

[placid heath]

Oh la la

[ocean robin]

THE FUCK MIKA

[sudden panther]

Flops. Back to work.

[ocean robin]

Yes.

[shy bobcat]

wen du will das d1 duetsch ist reallich schlecht, du must mache buchstablich Durchsetzungs von englisch Worts

[ocean robin]

so I was 33% correcto.

[thick charm]

Du musst Wechstaben verbuchteln

[sudden panther]

Hey AI guy. Make us a bot that yells at Floppo when she's slacking off.

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

[ocean robin]

Also hey Casca.

[placid heath]

while (1) { yell(&flaeppers); }

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin less more 🇩🇪

[ocean robin]

LOL

[sudden panther]

Simplest bot ever. Please give us your address so we can ship your turing award.

[ocean robin]

[placid heath]

My address is 542 Tail Recursion Recursion Recursion ...

[fair iron]

Example:
" u SRfeee.dd a gfrunhntsoiibradweiewrinDe eeegriae lutnee enrza"

[ocean robin]

can feel the "GO TO WORK FLOPPSY"

[fair iron]

Translate that, Flappy.

[ocean robin]

wait whaaaaaat.

[fair iron]

Hey Flappy.

[sudden panther]

Remember when Botty had a >spam command? We need that back. To yell at Floppers.

[fair iron]

I also had that for a while.

[ocean robin]

Casca, that's worse than torturing.

[fair iron]

To spam Botto.

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther Am simpelsten Boter je. Gefällt gib uns dein Adresse so wir kann Schiff dein Turung Preis

[ocean robin]

lol wot

[shy bobcat]

aww thx

[sudden panther]

Turnenpreis.

[quasi merlin]

Okay.

Stop the memes.

[shy bobcat]

Back to work 😡

[quasi merlin]

Back to work.

[ocean robin]

YES.

[quasi merlin]

But I have to go.

[shy bobcat]

bye

[ocean robin]

Awwww.

[quasi merlin]

Bye, Flops, for 40 minutes.

[ocean robin]

See you Mika.

[sudden panther]

Flops. If you're not completely done with questions by the time Mika is back, ur ded.

[quasi merlin]

^

[shy bobcat]

don't worry flops wont have finished it by the time mika gets back

😉

[ocean robin]

b-but explain ;u;

[sudden panther]

Clear? Clear. Now maybe stop slacking off for 5 minutes and finish your translation? 🔪

[placid heath]

*Sunclear

[ocean robin]

YOU MEAN CASCA'S SENTENCE IS REALLY THE TRANSLATION

ah ded end me

[shy bobcat]

wait what is flops trying to translate, and what does flops have

[sudden panther]

🤦

[pine ginkgo]

nothing?

[shy bobcat]

oh ofc

[sudden panther]

- Wofür suscht du?
- Woran arbeitest du?```

Remember those? 😛

[shy bobcat]

we're still waiting on the first translation

[fair iron]

My sentence was a jumpled up version of a different sentence, Flappy.

[pine ginkgo]

yeah

[ocean robin]

Ooooooh yeah.

[pine ginkgo]

but that was like an hour ago

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

getting into a flop translation halfway through is confusing because you have no idea if flop has done anything yet

[fair iron]

It originally read: Dieser Satz wurde in einer anderen Reihenfolge wieder aufgebaut.

[ocean robin]

look I had 1 righto. I don't even know which one is righto but I have one righto.

[pine ginkgo]

most times "no" is the best estimate, teeeis

[sudden panther]

Lovely. Now have a look at
https://www.dict.cc/?s=denken
https://www.dict.cc/?s=suchen
https://www.dict.cc/?s=arbeiten
and find the prepositions they're used with.

[ocean robin]

AH.

[sudden panther]

We did fokken arbeiten fokken yesterday, by the way.

[shy bobcat]

it's funny, teeeis is a stupid nickname but the only reason it actually irks me is that it has 3 es in a row

[ocean robin]

k

Wot andenken. Wot.

[pine ginkgo]

:D

and because i say it

:P

[fair iron]

Dr__eieieie__rsalat.

[ocean robin]

Bad memories.

[fair iron]

Not three es, but still seven consecutive vowels, which is fun.

[shy bobcat]

@pine ginkgo naw

😛

it really is the Es

@fair iron wtf

oh

[ocean robin]

Yes Casca. I had to do this for transition and I forgot a vowel.

[shy bobcat]

three egg egg salad

[sudden panther]

And here she is, memeing in chat instead of doing her work.

[ocean robin]

Y-yes my bad.

[cold vessel]

If you search for "denken" there's a single preposition in the suggestions but if you search for "think about" there's like 3 👀

Make that 4

[ocean robin]

Let's just use andenken and say "Woran denkest du?"

[pine ginkgo]

this train of thought

is very

funny

i must admit

[ocean robin]

lel

[sudden panther]

Please don't confuse prepositions with prefixes.

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

It's an etw. denken not andenken.

[ocean robin]

that was painful

[sudden panther]

Good.
Next one.

[ocean robin]

Wait what.

[fair iron]

No pain, no gain.

[sudden panther]

Please do be kind enough to give me the next sentence.

[ocean robin]

It's even noy correcto and we do next one.

[sudden panther]

No. Your sentence is fine. It's your reasoning that was wrong.

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

When you bullshit a maths problem avd somehow get it right

[ocean robin]

• Wofür suscht du?
  ther memez

[sudden panther]

I'll shoot your dog.

[shy bobcat]

[cold vessel]

Was it actually correct to put "denken" in Konjunktiv? 🤔

[fair iron]

I remember doing that on a physics exam once.

[sudden panther]

Oh. No. I'm blind.

[fair iron]

We had to show that one unit of measurement equalled another, and I gave up in the end and just wrote = C.

Which, apparently, was correct.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sudden panther]

She didn't put it in Konjunktiv though. She just can't type properly.

[ocean robin]

[cold vessel]

I mean, she did, accidentally

[ocean robin]

wot.

[sudden panther]

Du denken. Conjugate that for us please.

[ocean robin]

Didn't I say "du denkst"?

[sudden panther]

No. You said du denkest.

[ocean robin]

lel what

Now I see Konjonktiv I, well done Flops you use a tense you have never seen before but fakk off you still use it

[sudden panther]

Konjunktiv

[ocean robin]

i live typos

[sudden panther]

Typos aside, give me the next sentence.

[ocean robin]

yes.

• Woran arbeitest du?

[pine ginkgo]

wait

what

[ocean robin]

yes.

[pine ginkgo]

did we skip a sentence?

[cold vessel]

You did them in the wrong order

[ocean robin]

Am I that clumsy? helll no

What are you thinking of?
What are you looking for?
What are you working on?

It was the right order. Wooo how confusing.

[pine ginkgo]

fix the 2nd sentence

[sudden panther]

^

[ocean robin]

But Arrem went righto away to the 3rd. He didn't say it was wrong.

[sudden panther]

No, Arrem said "give me the next sentence". And the sentence after the 1st sentence is the 2nd one.

[ocean robin]

Wat. Me iz confused.

[sudden panther]

Do the second sentence. Look suchen up and see what preposition it's used with.

[fair iron]

Besuchen.

Versuchen.

[ocean robin]

I see nachsuchen. But eh.

[sudden panther]

Flops. Once again, please don't treat your prepositions like prefixes. Nachsuchen is wrong. Either say nach etw. suchen or suchen nach.

[fair iron]

^

[ocean robin]

And me who was writing suchen nach. And then said "wot hell ne"

[nocturne spruce]

flappy

you saw a similar thing with erzählen like 2 days ago

[sudden panther]

I told you that you shouldn't combine your prepositions with your verbs liddroly 20 minutes ago.

[nocturne spruce]

did you manage to forget?

[sudden panther]

Also holy memes 20 minutes ago. How is this going so slowly...

[ocean robin]

b-but erzählen wasn't the same case for me

Hell yeah phone stop.

[nocturne spruce]

it was von/über etwas erzählen

it showcased a preposition seperate from a verb and you used it correctly

[ocean robin]

[nocturne spruce]

so what happened?

[ocean robin]

I don't know.

[sudden panther]

Writing something like vonerzählen would be the equivalent of what you just did. It pretty much makes no sense.

[ocean robin]

[nocturne spruce]

i would understand the opposite

[sudden panther]

Now could we please finish that sentence? We've been at it for an hour.

[nocturne spruce]

like seperating prefixes

[ocean robin]

Like, uh wait.

I want to finish it but uh, don't know with what I should do the wo-. 🤔

[sudden panther]

Given that we're learning about the wo+preposition construct, I'd personally try using the preposition that I just found. But it's up to you. 😛

[ocean robin]

Are you talking about wovon.

[sudden panther]

Did we establish that it's von etw. suchen? If so, then yes, it's von.

[ocean robin]

[hot cloak]

We take this sentence, looks for arrem-y clues

find this word

and append it after wo

[shy bobcat]

inb4 "wo nach"

[ocean robin]

inb4 wonach

[hot cloak]

yes thanks

okay next step

go go

what are we looking for fläps

[ocean robin]

lel

Uhh where is sentence.

[hot cloak]

What are you looking for?

here now go

[ocean robin]

Wonach suscht du? plox no typos I hope please.

[shy bobcat]

Typo

[fair iron]

^

[hot cloak]

beep

[fair iron]

Claxon.

[shy bobcat]

the word for look for is not suschen

[ocean robin]

AHHHH.

[sudden panther]

In her defense, suscht is exactly how she'd pronounce it. 😛

[ocean robin]

cries in corner desperately

And Arrem is right.

[fair iron]

Please don't cry, Flappy.

[hot cloak]

now finish your sentence

properly

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther I would expect more "suukt" than "suscht" from a French accent

[sudden panther]

One way to find out. 😛

[ocean robin]

just see my besucht and delete the be-.

[hot cloak]

if that helps

sure

[shy bobcat]

Du sucht 🤔

[fair iron]

Besucht is visited.

[hot cloak]

finish it

[ocean robin]

yes.

[fair iron]

(Just throwing that out there.)

[shy bobcat]

No.

[ocean robin]

(yes casca thankies)

[shy bobcat]

du such__t__???

[sudden panther]

Now finish your sentence or we're sending 0x1 over to personally take away your German books.

[hot cloak]

oh that

[fair iron]

Du Sucht?

[shy bobcat]

I think you a letter @ocean robin

[hot cloak]

conj suchen

[viral thunder]

http://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-german-verb-suchen.html

[ocean robin]

"Wonach suchst du?"

[hot cloak]

find the right form

good

[fair iron]

🎉

[ocean robin]

lel

[sudden panther]

I think you a word, Ari. ❤

[shy bobcat]

👏

[hot cloak]

next one

go go go

[ocean robin]

where it is blah

[sudden panther]

Can Botto get Flops to finish in 5 minutes.

[hot cloak]

What are you working on?

now go

[ocean robin]

[hot cloak]

whats the first step?

[ocean robin]

Wait I had 1 right. Is it that one?

[hot cloak]

idc, do it anyway

[sudden panther]

Only one way to find out.

[ocean robin]

Seeing which preposition to use?

[hot cloak]

yes

good

I need champions league atream rn, does anyone have a link?

[ocean robin]

An etw. arbeiten.

[hot cloak]

yes, okay. thats the verb

now find the prep

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0YI14SDss close enough.

[ocean robin]

thought it was an. Sad.

[sudden panther]

Don't think. Check.

[ocean robin]

he says when he always tell me: check cases fokken flops

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther is the idea not to get it so she can think?

[hot cloak]

okay, you found the prep

[ocean robin]

So.

[hot cloak]

I think

[ocean robin]

Ah.

[hot cloak]

an

yes

good

[ocean robin]

yayies

[sudden panther]

Sorry, wot, Ari?

Ah nvm, got it.

[quasi merlin]

I'm back!

[hot cloak]

what do we append after prepositions that begin with a vowel to make it fit with wo

go go go

[sudden panther]

Yes, but she has to look up 543536345423564 things to be able to think properly.

[ocean robin]

What do we append...?

Woran?

[hot cloak]

woAN sounds bad

Yeeee

an R

[sudden panther]

And we still aren't done, Mikuh.

[hot cloak]

okay, next step

conjugate that bad boy

[ocean robin]

okay so now we can do dis

yes

"Woran arbeitest du?"

[hot cloak]

Okay, done

[shy bobcat]

:smile:

How long did that take in total?

[ocean robin]

[quasi merlin]

485489645619848919874591 Mika units

[ocean robin]

LOL

~2 hours, I'd say?

[fair iron]

What's that in Planck seconds?

[ocean robin]

🤷

[placid heath]

2.3ħ

[ocean robin]

It makes 1 Flops minute.

[pine ginkgo]

about one and a half

[hot cloak]

Okay, Fläps. What did we learn from this

How'd you go about forming sentences like these next time

[sudden panther]

🙋

[hot cloak]

I want a break down

[sudden panther]

That 0x1 might be the only one that can get Flops to do her work.

[hot cloak]

:^)

[ocean robin]

maybe

[sudden panther]

Now answer his question.

[ocean robin]

yeah, okay then, so I have to see the preposition of the verb and then put it as it gives a wo- question

[nocturne spruce]

if you were to write steps

how would they go?

[ocean robin]

1- First seeing the preposition of the verb I want to use.
2- Then put it next to wo to have a wo- question.
3. See verb conjugation.
4. now you write question you meme

[thick charm]

We still have those sentences from yesterday

If you want to continue with those

[nocturne spruce]

well, there's finding the verb you want, but aside from that

well done

[sudden panther]

Woan. Got it.

Woüber. Got it.

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

Any steps you'd like to add or clarify?

[nocturne spruce]

I learned something quite interesting from this session though

I was never taught this

[hot cloak]

0x1's totally cool and informative cheat sheet for Fläps™

1. What verb am I using?
2. What's the preposition?
   (Since we only practised asking for objects:)
3. Does the preposition start with a vowel? Yes -> Wo+R+Prep; No: Don't add an R
4. Determine the subject of your future question
5. Conjugate that bad boy
6. Order everything
   -> Wo+(r)+prep - conjugated verb - subject of the sentence

[nocturne spruce]

fery cuel

[hot cloak]

thanks :^)

[sudden panther]

Instructions unclear. Preposition didn't start with a vowel so I didn't append anything.

[hot cloak]

ech I hate illegal instructions, you can recompile in a sec

[sudden panther]

All tests passed. ✅

[hot cloak]

❤

[ocean robin]

Look how good teachers are here.

[sudden panther]

So, now do what are you talking about and use über. And make it the plural you. Because du is boring so why not.

[hot cloak]

beep missing quantifier in sentence 1, line 1

add many

[ocean robin]

So ihr?

[sudden panther]

Alternatively add a the before the teachers.

You tell me. 😛

[ocean robin]

[hot cloak]

hint, ü is considered a vowel in this case

[ocean robin]

[hot cloak]

(ue == ü)

[ocean robin]

Flops is not here for 20 mins or so.

[hot cloak]

(Phonetic theory with 0x1: Two vowels that get spoken "at the same time" are reffered to as diphthongs. Since German is very picky it goes ew, I don't want no diphthongs in my questions :(( it thought of adding an R between the big bad vowel word and wo. That way you don't say woauf which sounds like some kind of abomination created in a linguistics lab, but worauf which is much nicer.)

[shy bobcat]

@hot cloak technically it's more "dar" and "wor" dropped the R besides between vowels in these question words

😛

darfür > dafür
darum > noch darum

[hot cloak]

true but I was specifically explaining the case with wo ;)

[shy bobcat]

worfür > wofür
there's an R in the english equivalent (and the danish one, and the swedish one etc) 😉

wherefore

hvorfor

[pseudo trail]

@hot cloak Your phonetic tidbit was greatly appreciated

[hot cloak]

[ocean robin]

I am not able to be here anymore today. See you.

[shy bobcat]

[quasi merlin]

See you! 🔪

[ocean robin]

[opal sequoia]

Noioo

[placid heath]

Bye. Tomorrow you have to draw a map of France.

[ocean robin]

But there is the fokken brother who is here.

[thick charm]

Good night!

See you around

[fair iron]

Take care, Flappy!

[ocean robin]

Actually wooo I can stay here for a bit. Little brother was just a little bit annoying with phone. 👀

[opal sequoia]

Wooo.

[ocean robin]

Hey Base.

[opal sequoia]

Hi Flappy.

How are you doing?

[ocean robin]

I am fine, except that I feel more tired than usual. Unless that I am okay.

And for you?

lel who put that. Awesome correction.

[hot cloak]

The one and only

[fair iron]

Chesney Hawkes?

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

https://i.imgur.com/N8RwPS2.png

[ocean robin]

[opal sequoia]

Makes sense.

How's school?

[sudden panther]

She failed an A2 English test or sumfin.

[ocean robin]

Nope.

Got 100%. 🤔

[sudden panther]

Prolly rigged.

[placid heath]

Now you only need 100% on the C2 test and you're done.

[ocean robin]

👌

[placid heath]

Un dann noch enne von sellere Zetteln wo da sagt dass dus Badisch kannsch

[ocean robin]

wat.

[placid heath]

Und dann noch einer von diesen Zetteln auf denen steht dass du Badisch kannst.

[thick charm]

Ich kaufe ein Komma

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

gib mir ein K

[placid heath]

Willst du ein B kaufen? öffnet Mantel

[thick charm]

gib mir die Omma

[ocean robin]

[placid heath]

Tu ma bei die Omma winke

Und mach ma Ei bei de Mäh!

[shy bobcat]

🤔

[ocean robin]

And me who thought we would continue. Meme German is always here.

[shy bobcat]

that's not meme german

[ocean robin]

[placid heath]

Das ist Schantalistisch

[pine ginkgo]

flappsy still insulting germany

every day

:(

[shy bobcat]

😦

[placid heath]

http://chantalismus.blogspot.de/

[ocean robin]

Imma not D: mayhe I just didn't know the words and was like "oh, maybe they put the verb at another place and they do all they want"

[sudden panther]

We could continue, but you'd just go to sleep half way through the translatin. 😛

[pine ginkgo]

we could revise

what she learned today

or yesterday

:P

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

what did you learn today

and yesterday floppsel

[sudden panther]

Avoiding work 101
Steering conversations away 2
Advanced memeing techniques
Intro to meme German

That sums it up.

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

i mean

what new things did flappsel learn

avoiding is an olden skill of hers

[sudden panther]

An hour for 9 words takes practice though. 🤔

[pine ginkgo]

an hour and thirty

[sudden panther]

That's like 0.1 WPM. Nice.

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

flappsy

[ocean robin]

yes

[pine ginkgo]

do you remember what you learnt?

😱

[ocean robin]

ooooooh no of course I do with imperative and wo- questions.

long translation comes in

[shy bobcat]

ok, now prove that you know it: say something with an imperative and say something with a wo-question

❤

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

no translation, just make something up

[ocean robin]

Like wot?

Ah.

Schlaf jetzt.

[shy bobcat]

es ist doch nur 13:07 bei mir

[ocean robin]

lel

[sudden panther]

Only wo- questions? 🤔

[ocean robin]

22:07

[shy bobcat]

ich wohne in arizona 😛

[ocean robin]

why, I also learnt that verbs have preposition- k I stop now.

[sudden panther]

Even though you've been using verbs with prepositions since forever. And that's why we're turning back to the basics. 🎉

[ocean robin]

Yaaay. Idk if I should be happy about tat.

[opal sequoia]

You should.

Because it doesn't really matter if you get things right or wrong. It matters only that you're learning more about German.

So if it's basics or advanced, doesn't matter, as long as you're learning it properly.

[ocean robin]

True.

[opal sequoia]

That's also why getting faster at answering will help you improve faster. If you answer 1 question right, that's worse than answering 10 questions where half are right and half wrong.

[ocean robin]

Agreed as well.

[sudden panther]

Wot Base says. 1h30m for 9 words is just a waste of time.

[opal sequoia]

Yeah. Although it's fine if you're actually using that time to memorize the rules and stuff. Just that if you're avoiding posting because you're worried about getting it wrong, that's pointless. 😄

[sudden panther]

because you're worried about getting it wrong busy talking to other people, that's pointless.

[opal sequoia]

Yes, post the answer before chatting.

[sudden panther]

I seriously consider moving these to #questions so I can yell at people for going offtopic.

[pine ginkgo]

i am still for the flappsy torture chamber

[opal sequoia]

It may be a good idea.

[pine ginkgo]

and she is muted everywhere else during torture time

[opal sequoia]

Or Unterricht.

[toxic urchin]

I think Learning category should over general

[sudden panther]

So does Berzi, but general is a lot more active.

[pine ginkgo]

thehehe

[opal sequoia]

Since it's basically a lesson and no one uses unterricht.

[sudden panther]

Sure.

[ocean robin]

and she is muted everywhere else during torture time
That's at once a good idea and a scary one.

[pine ginkgo]

nah, we shouldn't do that tho

it's your decision

[sudden panther]

It's no good when she does all the bantering in the actual learning channel.

[pine ginkgo]

how you spend your time

not our decision how you should spend your time

[ocean robin]

true

[toxic urchin]

https://pomodoneapp.com/

[ocean robin]

So I am going to bed because phone is at 9%. See you everyone.

[fair iron]

Dors bien!

[toxic urchin]

Gute nacht

[hot cloak]

Ich glaube nicht im Grammatik. Das ist gerade für Nerds. 😎

[shy bobcat]

@hot cloak das ist deutlich zu sehen

dass du an Grammatik nicht glaubst

😛

[lavish saddle]

(glauben an)

[hot cloak]

Thanks but that was kinda the joke

I cry every time

[lavish saddle]

🤔

german learning server...joke...?

[hot cloak]

I am a joke

A big fat one at that

:p

[shy bobcat]

@hot cloak when someone uses bad grammar in a learning server it's kinda hard to tell whether it's a joke or not

😛

My answer was also a joke tbh

[lavish saddle]

agreed ahaha

I can never tell 🤷

[hot cloak]

high five

[pine ginkgo]

i know when your grammar is bad teeeis 😠

[shy bobcat]

😘

[hot cloak]

left hanging

[shy bobcat]

[hot cloak]

Wow

This emoji looks weird

O

It's a server emoji

I was thinking it looked different

Well

Auf Wiedersehen!

Ich gehe schlafen

[shy bobcat]

[hot cloak]

Es ist drei vor zwölf?

Is that right?

[shy bobcat]

idk

my german isn't fantastic either

😔

[pine ginkgo]

banned

[hot cloak]

With Drei and Zwölf capitalised

[shy bobcat]

capitalising is wrong

[hot cloak]

In general?

Or just in this case?

lmao

[shy bobcat]

well, are drei or zwölf nouns?

[nocturne spruce]

numbers aren't capitalized

[shy bobcat]

I'm pretty sure "drei vor zwölf" ist fine

[hot cloak]

They aren't nouns?

He is yellow. Er ist Gelb

He is three

[shy bobcat]

nope

[hot cloak]

Er ist Drei?

[shy bobcat]

adjectives

[hot cloak]

No?

[shy bobcat]

😄

[hot cloak]

Oh

I'm getting mad

Too late

ciao

[shy bobcat]

ok it seems like as good a time as any to make me translate stuff

[quasi merlin]

Hi, Arizona.

[shy bobcat]

mika

[quasi merlin]

[sudden panther]

That was your sentence, Ari.

[shy bobcat]

Das ist doch derselbe Satz auf Deutsch 😒

[sudden panther]

Gotta start small.

[quasi merlin]

Wir sprechen einfach nur noch Deutsch.

[shy bobcat]

gebt übersetzerooni

[quasi merlin]

Ich bin unkreativ.

Arrem muss das machen.

[shy bobcat]

Du kannst ja Sätze vom Internet klauen 😏

[sudden panther]

Return a chain object whose .next() method returns elements from the
first iterable until it is exhausted, then elements from the next
iterable, until all of the iterables are exhausted.

[viscid cape]

Wat

[lost dagger]

Is it ok to scavenge for flowers at the cemetery for my mom's birthday?

[dense rivet]

sure

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther wie bitte

[viscid cape]

The dead won't be happy.

[lost dagger]

I reckon they'd take any emotion at this point

[opal sequoia]

Wow.

Thief.

[dense rivet]

i'm too afraid to go to the other general channel

they're posting scary spiders

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther ich sag nein zu deinem Ding da 😉

[opal sequoia]

Yeah, same @dense rivet

[sudden panther]

etzt fick ich dich richtig

[shy bobcat]

😦

[quasi merlin]

"The worst thing is to think you're no good. You're blaming yourself for something that isn't anyone's fault."

Go

[sudden panther]

Don't worry icky, now they're posting nice froggos.

[dense rivet]

don't believe it

okay i checked

it's save

or sage

safe

or something

like that

[shy bobcat]

"Das Schlimmste ist zu glauben, dass du nichts Gutes bist. Du beschuldigst dich für etwas, daran niemand Schuld hat." @quasi merlin

[lost dagger]

Maybe "...an dem niemand schuld ist"

[shy bobcat]

an dem sure

but I think Schuld haben ist valid

mika disappears right after giving translation sentence

[cold vessel]

The reverse flappy

[shy bobcat]

ikr

[quasi merlin]

Okay, second sentence first.

Ye, you have to change the "daran" and I'd use something different from "beschuldigen".

[cold vessel]

Is "beschuldigen" like accuse?

[sudden panther]

Mika floppt nie weg. Er gibt nur Zeit zum Nachdenken.

[quasi merlin]

Beschuldigen can be like accuse.

[rigid crest]

Wie kann ich meine Usernamefarbe ändern

Bitte

😃

[cold vessel]

Yay. I love cognates ❤

[shy bobcat]

is the bot still down

[quasi merlin]

It's not down.

[rigid crest]

How does one summon the bot?

[shy bobcat]

>getrole Level A/B/C

[sudden panther]

Bimst du 1 Muttersprachler?

[quasi merlin]

"Das Schlimmste ist zu glauben, dass du nichts Gutes bist. Du beschuldigst dich für etwas, daran niemand Schuld hat."

As for the first sentence, you can't translate "no good" literally. 😛

[shy bobcat]

😦

@quasi merlin so what do you say 😛

[quasi merlin]

"zu nichts taugen" / "zu nichts zu gebrauchen sein"

[shy bobcat]

🤔

was mit "zu" 😛

Das Schlimmste ist zu glauben, dass du nichts taugst. Du gibst dir selbst Schuld für etwas, an dem niemand Schuld hat

?

[viscid cape]

I'm back

[opal sequoia]

Welcome back.

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin 😄

[viscid cape]

Thanks Baseonders

[shy bobcat]

kryptik 👀

[viscid cape]

Did you torture Flappers today

[shy bobcat]

Only a little bit 😏

[sudden panther]

After taking 1.5h for 9 words, she floppily flopped away.

[toxic urchin]

Hi back

[opal sequoia]

Anyone wants some sentences?

[cold vessel]

The watch says no, but my sleep aversion says yes

[opal sequoia]

And what are you studying at the moment, henbruas?

[cold vessel]

That sort of implies that my studies are structured, which they really aren't 😓

[sudden panther]

https://i.imgur.com/I5h5Bmj.png base irl

[shy bobcat]

😍

@opal sequoia 💰

[cold vessel]

Sorry but I do really need to go to sleep actually

[opal sequoia]

Aw, sleep well.

You can German in the morning. 😄

[dire sentinel]

howdy base

[opal sequoia]

@shy bobcat What about you?

[dire sentinel]

was geht

[opal sequoia]

Hi Creepy. 😮

[shy bobcat]

Hello :

[lost dagger]

🐦

[shy bobcat]

🐦

[dire sentinel]

🐦

[opal sequoia]

Nur Lernen. Ich mache mein C Lernen.

[dire sentinel]

I got sad about pigeons today so now I am become one

[opal sequoia]

C wie programmieren.

[dire sentinel]

O shit

already?

du lernst schnell

[opal sequoia]

No, programmieren. Wie coding. 😄

[dire sentinel]

Oh

huehuehue

[opal sequoia]

What happened with the pgeons?

Do you want a sentence, Arizona? And if so, what category?

[dire sentinel]

Someone said Doves are just white pigeons and I wondered why doves are loved but pigeons are called rats of the sky

[lost dagger]

Are you Nike Tyson?

[opal sequoia]

Aw. 😦

[dire sentinel]

Pigeons just want to share our fries

and walk around

they're friendly

and cute

[opal sequoia]

Is it better if I say that doves are also rats?

[dire sentinel]

noooooo

[shy bobcat]

@opal sequoia whaddayamean "category"

[opal sequoia]

What do you have against rats? 😦

[dire sentinel]

Rats are also Good Boyes

[opal sequoia]

True.

[shy bobcat]

this used to just be "ping someone, say 'gib translate', get sentence"

🤔

[opal sequoia]

No, it started with learning about specific grammar points. 😄

When I started it with Flappy.

[sudden panther]

Pigeons just want to share our fries and walk around they're friendly and cute
Go, Arizona. Translate it.

[dire sentinel]

Arrem pls

Let them into your heart

[sudden panther]

Better?

[opal sequoia]

But like, do you want a short sentence? Long sentence? Complex? Fundamentals? Etc.

[sudden panther]

In fact. Translate everything creepy says.

[dire sentinel]

Oh I thought I was being told to leave hehe

[opal sequoia]

I can just break out a novel like I usually do with long sentences, or I can think about it properly.

[dire sentinel]

"Taube? Geh weg 😠 "

[shy bobcat]

@opal sequoia nothing crazy long

[opal sequoia]

yeah, get out, sky rat. 🦇

[shy bobcat]

but ideally something with abit of trippy grammar

[dire sentinel]

QQ

[quasi merlin]

Even if you name it "a flower that will never wither", it will never be "a flower that will never wither".

Go.

[dire sentinel]

"Pigeons, though numerous and dirty, are to be loved and given every french fry possible"

[shy bobcat]

"Auch wenn du sie "eine Blume die nie verdorrt" nennst, wird sie niemals "eine Blume die nie verdorrt" sein."

[pine ginkgo]

An impossible task for most learners on the way to fluency takes the form of the difficulty of translating memes from one language to another, so that the original style and intention is preserved.

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin did urs

[pine ginkgo]

OR SOMETHING

check your commas teeis

[shy bobcat]

eine Blume, die nie verdorrt

"Tauben, obwohl sie zahlreich und schmutzig sind, soll geliebt, und alle möglichen Pommes gegeben werden" @dire sentinel did yours

i think I'm missing a word

[opal sequoia]

Auch wenn du er "ein Deutschlerner, der nie falsch wird" nennst, wird er niemals "ein Deutschlerner, der nie falsch wird" sein.

[dire sentinel]

Dunno looks good to me

I should start doing this too

[shy bobcat]

auch wenn du er...nennst

base

we expect better from you

[dire sentinel]

Ist "er" nicht richtig?

[shy bobcat]

no

Kasus

[opal sequoia]

Nein, Taubchen.

[dire sentinel]

[shy bobcat]

@natives hey any chance you'll look over my translation of täubchen's

[viscid cape]

Hallow.

[shy bobcat]

[viscid cape]

Your translation sux mate.

(Didn't even read it)

[opal sequoia]

Aber ich habe gesagt, dass er niemals nie falsch wird.

[shy bobcat]

deutlich hast du doch dich selbst nicht beschrieben 😏

[opal sequoia]

😄

[viscid cape]

Are you translationg stuffz?

[shy bobcat]

yeah 😄

[viscid cape]

Cool.

[shy bobcat]

Even if you call it "a flower that will never wither", it will never be "a flower that will never wither" @viscid cape go

[dire sentinel]

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

[opal sequoia]

Does "Er wird niemals nie falsch" mean "he will never be wrong"? It's meant to be "He will never not be wrong".

But I don't know German negatives.

[lost dagger]

you've lost me

[nocturne spruce]

Why are you doing a double negative

[viscid cape]

Selbst wenn du es "eine Blume, die niemals verblühen wird" nennst , wird es niemals "eine Blume, die niemals verblühen wird" sein

[quasi merlin]

Arizona, your sentence, *sollen

[viscid cape]

Too many sentences at the same time

[dire sentinel]

Double negatives are for Cool Kids

[quasi merlin]

Oh, you already did in #questions

[shy bobcat]

ya

[nocturne spruce]

Don't you mean double negatives are not for uncool kids

[dire sentinel]

That's exactly what I mean

[opal sequoia]

Because I have said something like "Even if you call him a learner that will never be wrong, he will never be a learner that is never wrong."

So I am saying he is never never wrong.

[viscid cape]

<_>

[nocturne spruce]

The one in the sentence makes sense to me, since one of them is in quotes and the other isn't

[opal sequoia]

Okay, so I am saying he is never "never wrong".

Better?

[nocturne spruce]

so the one outside the quote is negating the whole meaning of the quote, while the one inside negates him making mistakes

Yeah, that makes sense

[shy bobcat]

@viscid cape don't feel so overwhelmed

[nocturne spruce]

But never never, next to each other is confusing

[shy bobcat]

<_> no más ❤

[quasi merlin]

»Auch wenn du ihn einen "Lerner, der niemals Fehler macht" nennst, er wird nie ein "Lerner, der niemals Fehler macht" sein.«

[shy bobcat]

Wortstellung?

[opal sequoia]

Ahh, I see.

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin ...wird er nie....?

right?

[pine ginkgo]

well

it's direct speech

🤔

[quasi merlin]

w/e

[shy bobcat]

w/e?

[pine ginkgo]

whatever

[quasi merlin]

whatever

[sudden panther]

whatever

[pine ginkgo]

woa

imagine mikah actually saying that

[viscid cape]

Whatever

[pine ginkgo]

then it sounds better

[viscid cape]

Almost all colours represented

[shy bobcat]

so close to a stoplight colours 😦

arrem, luna, then mika, say whatever again

[sudden panther]

Mika is a meme.

[quasi merlin]

Whatever

[pine ginkgo]

Arrem is a meme.

[sudden panther]

Sorry Ari.

[quasi merlin]

Bitte was?

[shy bobcat]

Everyone is a meme

[quasi merlin]

Wieso bin ich ein Meme?

[pine ginkgo]

Echt

Mikuh ist ein Blut

[shy bobcat]

weil alle hier Memes sind 😄

Wenn man kein Meme ist, wird man verbannt

[pine ginkgo]

teeeis

[sudden panther]

Hifle, wie wird man Blut??

[pine ginkgo]

mach meinen doof satz da oben

und so

[quasi merlin]

»Auch wenn du ihn einen "Lerner, der niemals Fehler macht" nennst, wird er nie ein "Lerner, der niemals Fehler macht" sein.«

Für Arizona. 😛

[shy bobcat]

😛

[opal sequoia]

Just to give you an idea, at the entrance of the subdivision where we live, there's this big statue of an elk, made of concrete, and the whole thing is chipped with bullet holes where over the years drunken hunters have shot it by mistake.

Sentence for you.

[shy bobcat]

ahh

[ancient spade]

I don't even know what an elk is 🤔

[shy bobcat]

American or British elk

@opal sequoia

[opal sequoia]

American.

Just a kind of deer animal thing, Macaco.

[ancient spade]

Oh ok 😄

[pine ginkgo]

Einfach zu geben du ein Idee, an der Eingang von der Unterteiliung wo wir leben, da ist dies groß statue von ein Elch, gemacht von Konkret, und das ganz Ding is lädiert mit Kugellöcher wo über die Jahre besoffen Jäger haben geschossen es bei Fehler.

[shy bobcat]

thx luna

😛

[quasi merlin]

Bin fertig

[opal sequoia]

Why did you change your pic, Luna?

[pine ginkgo]

i think i spoilt too much

because reasons

[opal sequoia]

😦

[pine ginkgo]

this meme german

is way too close to the actual translation

[shy bobcat]

"Nur um Ihnen eine Ahnung zu geben, am Eingang der Unterabteilung, in der wir wohnen, gibt es diese große aus Beton gemachte Statue eines Elches, und die Ganze ist durch Einschüsse angeschlagen, wo betrunkene Jäger sie im Lauf der Jahre aus Versehen geschossen haben"

that's my try

naja

could be "dir" or "euch" also

[pine ginkgo]

Unterabteilung 🤔

[shy bobcat]

idk the context

[quasi merlin]

"Nur um dir eine grobe Vorstellung zu geben, am Eingang der Unterabteilung, in der wir leben, steht diese große Statue eines Elchs aus Beton und das ganze Ding ist übersäht von Einschusslöchern, die betrunkene Jäger über die Jahre hineingeschossen haben."

[pine ginkgo]

mikuh übertreibt hier ja

i like how we all used different translations for chipped

:D

[shy bobcat]

😅

so, how shit should I feel about my transl8 😅

[pine ginkgo]

mikuh took effort

to make his translation look nice

[shy bobcat]

it's pretty different from mikas but I can't tell what's style and what is wrong

and I don't know what "looks nice" 'cause I don't really speak German

all that well

[pine ginkgo]

one day

just generally

you don't want to insert too many small clauses or parts in german

if possible

of course you can do it

also

stop using commas with unds

teeeis

[shy bobcat]

Because the original is well written English so 😛

[pine ginkgo]

i am gonna get mad

[shy bobcat]

Sorry

😭

[pine ginkgo]

it's better to miss the few cases where you actually can use a comma before an und

than using it all the fucking time

[quasi merlin]

Ye, un-seeing a comma is hard.

[shy bobcat]

No one ever actually pointed out my comma overyse

😅

[opal sequoia]

Well, it's because you usually under-use commas.

But in German, it's not quite as bad as English. Mostly just check if it's a subordinate clause or a long zu-clause.

[shy bobcat]

Right, I feel like Team Translaterooni are gonna be roasting me extra hard on commas now

😅

[opal sequoia]

Here is another one but DE -> EN.

[shy bobcat]

I'm driving atm

Well not atm

[opal sequoia]

Bei Gott, Mann, ich glaube tatsächlich, dass sie lebendig waren! Dieser widerliche Hexenmeister hatte mit seinen Farbpigmenten die Feuersbrünste der Hölle zum Leben erweckt, und sein Pinsel war ein Zauberstab, der Albträume in die Welt setzte. Gib mir noch mal die Karaffe, Eliot!

[shy bobcat]

But just for in the car

:stuck_out_tongue:

[opal sequoia]

That's okay, it's not going to go anywhere.

[viscid cape]

Does anyone here consider me a friend

[pine ginkgo]

i consider you a krypti

[opal sequoia]

Depends on what you mean really.

[quasi merlin]

I acknowledge your existence.

[ancient spade]

Lol I consider you my rich cousin from São Paulo

[viscid cape]

Since when am I rich 😄 I'm sure you're better off than I

[shy bobcat]

I consider you the guy who reactions up my comments

[pine ginkgo]

By God, man, I believe actually, that they alive were! This disgusting warlock had with his color pigments the blasts of hell to life awakened, and his brush was a magic wand, which nightmares in the world put. Give me once again the carafe, Elliot!

seems acceptable

[viscid cape]

@opal sequoia Is that Pickman's model

[pine ginkgo]

base not even correcting my attempt

:(

[viscid cape]

He's busy surfing

[opal sequoia]

I'm studying. 😮

Looks perfect though, Luna.

You'll be B level in English in no time.

[viscid cape]

Reading Lovecraft without a dictionary is difficult, even in English

In German I have to use it every couple of sentences

[opal sequoia]

Nuhhh.

In English it's fine.

[viscid cape]

Says the native

[opal sequoia]

Sorry. 😄

[sudden panther]

Ban Base.

[viscid cape]

Ban him to Australia

Oh wait

(Last one I promise)

[opal sequoia]

That's a reward, not a punishment.

[sudden panther]

New Zealand then.

[opal sequoia]

I'll get eaten by hobbits.

[viscid cape]

🐸

hobbytes

[shy bobcat]

By God, man, I really think they were alive! This horrible wizard master had awakened the blasts of Hell with his pigments, and his paintbrush was a wand that put nightmares in this world. Give me the carrafe again, Elliot!

@opal sequoia base here's that... thing

😉

[viscid cape]

What's a carrafe

[shy bobcat]

Well, bad spelling is one thing it is

😛

😅

[opal sequoia]

Here's the English: By God, man, I verily believe they were alive! That nauseous wizard had waked the fires of hell in pigment, and his brush had been a nightmare-spawning wand. Give me that decanter, Eliot!

[shy bobcat]

I think mine is very well English too

😛

Wait is the original English and the German a translation

[opal sequoia]

Yes.

[shy bobcat]

Ok

Then I can understand

[opal sequoia]

But I think that "blasts of Hell" is a weird choice of translation.

[shy bobcat]

I copied that from lunas meme translation lel

I didn't know what the German meant

@opal sequoia

[viscid cape]

Arizona join our reading group for more creepy readings

[opal sequoia]

Why did you copy it?

I thought we're reading Grimms tales now. 😄

[viscid cape]

Yes, but they're also pretty creepy, no?

[shy bobcat]

@opal sequoia because I trusted Luna I thought just the word order was memey

Where is the reading group

[opal sequoia]

I guess so. I only read Rapunzel so far.

[viscid cape]

It's an abstract entity outside of space and time

[shy bobcat]

🤔

[viscid cape]

Formed by me, Base, Kellogs and you

We call it

The memeons.

[opal sequoia]

And Creepy?

[shy bobcat]

so is there any way to join it or do I just be in it

[opal sequoia]

Just be.

It's just our own version of the reading circle I guess.