general-2

[pine ginkgo]

but i have to look up on it

and frankly i don't care too much :D

[shy bobcat]

I thought the comma was allowed to be dropped when it was just “zu + infinitive”

[pine ginkgo]

now

capitalization

[shy bobcat]

and that it was required everywhere else

[pine ginkgo]

and your done with that part

yep

[red pewter]

Die Maus schmeißt eine Party.

[pine ginkgo]

okay

there's one mistake left, i think

[shy bobcat]

like “ich versuche zu gehen” is fine but, “ich versuche länger zu gehen” isn’t?

[pine ginkgo]

der graue Maus

mhh

maybe it is, if the there's no object in the clause

i would always put a comma if i write formally lel

[shy bobcat]

frankly it’s the internet, and most people probably won’t roast you for forgetting or misplacing a comma if you’re non native

[red pewter]

Der starke Hund geht zum Supermarkt mit einer netten Katze. Sie wünschen Abendessen kochen. Später brauchen sie ein kleines Geschenk für eine Party. Die Maus schmeißt eine Party. Die Katze gibt der grauen Maus ein kleines Stück Emmentaler. Der lustige Hund gibt der Maus eine Tasse frischen Kaffee. Die Maus mag keinen Kaffee. Er ist ein schlechtes Geschenk für eine wählerische Maus.

[pine ginkgo]

misplacing

yes

yes

yes

[red pewter]

just bring it down

[pine ginkgo]

don't misplace it

forgetting is fine

der graue Maus bell

[shy bobcat]

graua 🤔

oh I thought that was bell’s mistake lel

sorry

[pine ginkgo]

i hit you if you misplace a comma

[red pewter]

Der starke Hund geht zum Supermarkt mit einer netten Katze. Sie wünschen Abendessen zu kochen. Später brauchen sie ein kleines Geschenk für eine Party. Die Maus schmeißt eine Party. Die Katze gibt der grauen Maus ein kleines Stück Emmentaler. Der lustige Hund gibt der Maus eine Tasse frischen Kaffee. Die Maus mag keinen Kaffee. Er ist ein schlechtes Geschenk für eine wählerische Maus.

[shy bobcat]

it’s been 6 minutes since fläps has been given the sentence

[pine ginkgo]

mhh

yep

should be fine

though

eh

i would swap the objects in the first sentence

but nothing that is wrong

[shy bobcat]

Wünschen Abendessen kochen
is still there 🤔 is that right?

[pine ginkgo]

wait

[red pewter]

oh

[pine ginkgo]

we fixed that bell

[red pewter]

i fixed it

[pine ginkgo]

😦

[shy bobcat]

ok thank god

[red pewter]

and didn't put it in

[shy bobcat]

I thought I was taking crazy pills

[red pewter]

let me put it in

[ocean robin]

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterte Hut und lange Mantel gab den Eindruck von einem Detektiv, langsam ging meinem Vater zu. please end me

[pine ginkgo]

genitive endings, flapss

[ocean robin]

Aggggh.

[pine ginkgo]

also verb positions

[viscid cape]

@pine ginkgo Would you say that wünschen should be reflexive or nay?

[red pewter]

Der starke Hund geht zum Supermarkt mit einer netten Katze. Sie wünschen Abendessen zu kochen. Später brauchen sie ein kleines Geschenk für eine Party. Die Maus schmeißt eine Party. Die Katze gibt der grauen Maus ein kleines Stück Emmentaler. Der lustige Hund gibt der Maus eine Tasse frischen Kaffee. Die Maus mag keinen Kaffee. Er ist ein schlechtes Geschenk für eine wählerische Maus.

[ocean robin]

Huttes? :^)

[pine ginkgo]

no

[viscid cape]

Humm okay, thanks

[pine ginkgo]

no

[ocean robin]

Huts? 🤔

[pine ginkgo]

no questions

flaps

sorry, i answered to one

[ocean robin]

whai ;_;

[shy bobcat]

oh yeah I just avoided the genitive in my translation of casca’s by saying “the impresion that he was a detective” lel I was like “genitive 🤔”

[ocean robin]

ayyy look Casca I finished lel

that killed me

[shy bobcat]

no you didn’t it’s still full of errors

[pine ginkgo]

yes

[ocean robin]

yes yes but like

How many are they

[pine ginkgo]

at least 4

[shy bobcat]

you don’t get congratulated for spitting your first attempt out, you get congratulated once it’s correct

[fair iron]

What gender does Geschenk have, Bell?

[ocean robin]

4? Only 4?

[shy bobcat]

but good first try for an A level honestly

[pine ginkgo]

at least

[ocean robin]

Goddamn what.

[pine ginkgo]

oh

i didn't notice that casca

good eye

[ocean robin]

So waito.

[fair iron]

Because he is a bad present is proably not what you were going for. ^^

[pine ginkgo]

i just saw the E

and thought it was correct

:D

dessen geknitterte Hut

there's at least one mistake in this one

[fair iron]

^

^

[pine ginkgo]

do that first

[red pewter]

es ist

[fair iron]

Yep. ^

[red pewter]

das Geschenk

[nocturne spruce]

Oh, I didn't notice that Geschenk came twice

[ocean robin]

lol denclension

[nocturne spruce]

I simply saw it being correct the first time

[red pewter]

Der starke Hund geht zum Supermarkt mit einer netten Katze. Sie wünschen Abendessen zu kochen. Später brauchen sie ein kleines Geschenk für eine Party. Die Maus schmeißt eine Party. Die Katze gibt der grauen Maus ein kleines Stück Emmentaler. Der lustige Hund gibt der Maus eine Tasse frischen Kaffee. Die Maus mag keinen Kaffee. Es ist ein schlechtes Geschenk für eine wählerische Maus.

[shy bobcat]

don’t just point out your errors, fix them 😄 @ocean robin

[fair iron]

The mistake in geknitterte Hut is also the reason for the mistake in lange Mantel.

[red pewter]

yay danke sehr!!

[ocean robin]

Now I am doubting.

[fair iron]

Think of it as two mistakes in one, Flappy.

[ocean robin]

Is it the -s/es or denclension?

[fair iron]

Fix one, and you should be able to fix the other.

[shy bobcat]

die Hut
die Mantel

both of these are wrong, and both of these are what your sentence’s declension are implying

[viral thunder]

❌ Check failed. You probably don't have permission to do this.

[ocean robin]

🤔

[fair iron]

Wait.

[ocean robin]

LOL

[fair iron]

help die

[viral thunder]

>die

Segfault the bot in order to kill it.

[shy bobcat]

😩

[fair iron]

Huh.

😄

[ocean robin]

LOL WHAT

[pine ginkgo]

ah, casca you were gone when we found out about it

also flaps

you already know about it

stop with goldfish memory

[shy bobcat]

look up Hut and Mantel in dict cc

tell me what gender they are

[ocean robin]

feels like it's -s/es

[shy bobcat]

don’‌t feel, serach them in the dict

[ocean robin]

but der Mantel and der Hut 🤔

[shy bobcat]

yes

[fair iron]

There you go.

[shy bobcat]

now then

[ocean robin]

so -s/es

[shy bobcat]

we need strong declension

NO

[ocean robin]

AH

STRONG DENCLENSION GENITIVE

[shy bobcat]

not genitiv

[ocean robin]

what are you kidding me

oh yeah

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin look in the greater context of the sentence

[ocean robin]

owner is gen

[shy bobcat]

what are the hat and coat in the sentence

/ clause

[ocean robin]

well his clothes

[pine ginkgo]

lol

[shy bobcat]

😒

[pine ginkgo]

teeeis

[shy bobcat]

The hat and coat gave the impression

[ocean robin]

:^)

[pine ginkgo]

how is your sanity

[shy bobcat]

surprisingly well

considering

anyway

@ocean robin The hat and coat gave the impression.... what part of the sentence are hat and coat here

[ocean robin]

then it's nominative

[shy bobcat]

yes

Ein gut-- Mann

fill in the ending

[ocean robin]

lol okay

guter?

[fair iron]

That might just be the most nonchalant way to shrug off a discussion about your sanity that I've ever seen. 👌

[shy bobcat]

Yes @ocean robin

[ocean robin]

LOL

[shy bobcat]

Now

Fix the endings in the sentence

😄

[ocean robin]

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterter Hut und langer Mantel gab den Eindruck von einem Detektiv, langsam ging meinem Vater zu.

There.

[pine ginkgo]

next

verb position

[shy bobcat]

I have to go for a bit

so luna I guess take over

[ocean robin]

ahhaha

See you Ari.

[red pewter]

[ocean robin]

Wait.

Dessen is subordinating?

wooooo forgot about that fok

[fair iron]

Now that second clause is almost correct.

[pine ginkgo]

even if it wasn't

it would be wrong, flaps

:P

[ocean robin]

emphasis on almost

wot

OH YEAH

[fair iron]

Only one mistake left.

[ocean robin]

I SEE.

[fair iron]

Go fix it. ^^

[pine ginkgo]

The strange individual, whose creased hat and long overcoat gave the impression of a detective, slowly walked up to my father.

[ocean robin]

Wrong conjugation of geben huh

[shy bobcat]

again with the nonsensical kappas 🤔

[pine ginkgo]

wat

[ocean robin]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

yeah i don't think flappsy knows what irony

or kappas mean

[ocean robin]

yes and no

When I use them it's just to see that I am silly/trolling as fok 🤔

[pine ginkgo]

you should stop using them

tbh

[ocean robin]

lel

[pine ginkgo]

they don't fit at all with what you say

[ocean robin]

let's just overspam thinking

that's a good idea

[shy bobcat]

tbh when I read “Wrong conjugation of geben huh ” I first read it as you giving an obviously wrong “error” and kappaing it as sarcasm

[pine ginkgo]

i don't even know what flaps is thinking

[ocean robin]

lel anyway

[shy bobcat]

what’s flapps’ current translation again

I forgot it because of flapp’s kappas

[ocean robin]

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterter Hut und langer Mantel gaben den Eindruck von einem Detektiv, langsam ging meinem Vater zu.

[shy bobcat]

this is the sanity-loss they refer to

[ocean robin]

LOL

[shy bobcat]

your gaben is fine, luna talked about verb Placement

[ocean robin]

yeah

[shy bobcat]

so

where does it go

[sudden panther]

Mmmm. Back. You know what's awesome? Infinite hot water.

[ocean robin]

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterter Hut und langer Mantel den Eindruck von einem Detektiv gaben, langsam ging meinem Vater zu.

YAAAAH ARREM.

[shy bobcat]

idk whether the von einem Detektiv is wrong per se so I’m not gonna focus on it

[ocean robin]

@ solet

[shy bobcat]

“[...] langsam ging meinem Vater zu”

[sudden panther]

den Eindruck vong einem Detektiv

[shy bobcat]

🤔

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

Right so

What is the rule about verbs

[ocean robin]

V2?

[shy bobcat]

Which position do they take

Yes

[ocean robin]

But it's V2 there

[shy bobcat]

Right now ging is not in V2

[ocean robin]

wtf

[shy bobcat]

No it isn't

[ocean robin]

Another clause in a clause again? 😩

[sudden panther]

I love how you always make the exact same mistake.

[shy bobcat]

1. [Clauses and stuff] 2. langsam 3. ging

[ocean robin]

AHHHHH

[shy bobcat]

Ging is in Position 3

[whole rapids]

maybe flaps thought process is wrong

[ocean robin]

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterter Hut und langer Mantel den Eindruck von einem Detektiv gaben, ging langsam meinem Vater zu.

[pine ginkgo]

i don't want to pry

okay

[ocean robin]

Yes it was Pferd :^)

[pine ginkgo]

now

flappsy

[ocean robin]

yes

[pine ginkgo]

tell me the complete verb of that clause

in english

[whole rapids]

I mean in general

[pine ginkgo]

complete

[whole rapids]

how you think about constructing sentences

[ocean robin]

The complete?

[pine ginkgo]

yes

[ocean robin]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

the verbs and all its objects

[ocean robin]

objects again dear god whai

[pine ginkgo]

and if available, prepositions

in english

cause i can tell you

you translated the wrong verb

[ocean robin]

LOL

[pine ginkgo]

so we do dictionary training again

[ocean robin]

I can't, I wrote "walk up to sb." >_>

[pine ginkgo]

yes

so

why did you fail

[ocean robin]

yah so basically the father is an object

[pine ginkgo]

to copy it again

[ocean robin]

idk

[pine ginkgo]

okay

give me the complete verb in german

that you chose for the translation

and then compare it to what you wrote

[ocean robin]

geez

I see my mistake now it's so silly

auf. jdn zugehen

[sudden panther]

"auf. jdn"
Good job.

[ocean robin]

🤔

lel is it the dot placement now

[sudden panther]

Yes, yes it is.

[pine ginkgo]

yes

okay

now fix your sentence

and ask yourself

and contemplate

how could you fuck this up

[ocean robin]

"the fuck you did flapps"

Das seltsame Individuum, dessen geknitterter Hut und langer Mantel den Eindruck von einem Detektiv gaben, ging langsam auf meinen Vater zu.

[pine ginkgo]

now flappsy

tell me

how many mistakes

did you feel you knew about

and how many mistakes

you think you couldn't possibly know

[ocean robin]

There's one about the geben I could know, and denclension

But the last one eh

[hot cloak]

Hello

[ocean robin]

So 2 mistakes I could know over here

[sudden panther]

Hi.

[pine ginkgo]

lol

[ocean robin]

Hello!

[shy bobcat]

Is zugehen even right?

[pine ginkgo]

yes

[shy bobcat]

Cool

[pine ginkgo]

tbh flaps

[ocean robin]

yeah

[pine ginkgo]

i think typos and not copying text correctly

[sudden panther]

Now for fun, turn the Eindruck part into genitive. I was quite sad that Ari let you get away with that. 😦

[pine ginkgo]

are the easiest mistakes to know about

since you can just double check

but you never do

you just write it

[ocean robin]

_>

[pine ginkgo]

and the assume

okay

and you never look at it again

[shy bobcat]

Tbh I would have done the genitive but I wasn't sure if von was actually wrong

[pine ginkgo]

but whatevs

you did fine on the fixing

[red pewter]

hello doggo

[sudden panther]

Nah the von is fine, but Flops needs her genitiveing.

[hot cloak]

woof

[pine ginkgo]

i just hate it if you do typos and if you don't read the dictionary correctly

cause those things don't have anything to do with your knowledge

[shy bobcat]

Tbh that wasn't too bad for a level

[pine ginkgo]

so that is something we can't teach you

[shy bobcat]

:smile:

[hot cloak]

ich freue mich here zu sie

[pine ginkgo]

yeah, teeeis

but she is incredibly inconsistent

and there are too many reasons for that x.x

[sudden panther]

Definitely do spam her with these eingeschobenen clauses until she starts getting the word order right.

[shy bobcat]

Tis true

[pine ginkgo]

you just take the wrong word in the dictionary because you sometimes can't possibly know the correct one

but copying incorrectly and not noticing is meh

you just don't know

do these mistakes come from the person not knowing it

or the person just flopsing it for no reason

[red pewter]

Doggo, woher kommen Sie?

[pine ginkgo]

cause not knowing it can be fixed

flopsing it for no reason is not easily doable

[sudden panther]

Don't Sie people on the internet. 😉

[red pewter]

but I don't know him D:

[radiant pewter]

what are your sources for learning german guys?

[red pewter]

Woher kommst du?

[radiant pewter]

ive been st duolingo for a whole but left it all and came back past couple od days and these heart thingies are alittle annoying

while*

[shy bobcat]

when I flop something randomly 😖

[opal sequoia]

The best resource is everything you can possibly find.

[red pewter]

check out #resources :33

[radiant pewter]

oh sorry

just joined the server havent explored much my bad

[red pewter]

alles ist gut ❤

[opal sequoia]

Don't worry.

[pine ginkgo]

you don't flops very often, teeeis :)

[shy bobcat]

ihr können 👀

[ocean robin]

Flopping is a bad verb for meh

[pine ginkgo]

but if you would it would be hard to know where the flopsing comes from

[shy bobcat]

I just think about ihr können a lot now because I've learned for three years lel

[pine ginkgo]

if we just look at flappsy's knowledge, it is pretty good

but applying her knowledge is her downfall

:(

[opal sequoia]

2nd person plural is hard. 😔

[shy bobcat]

😦

[pine ginkgo]

(and her flopsing)

[opal sequoia]

Well the other thing for Flappy, besides mistakes, is that she doesn't really have proper rules for her knowledge.

[pine ginkgo]

jep

[opal sequoia]

She has just learned it from experience and can't confirm for herself if it's right or wrong.

[pine ginkgo]

that's what we try to fix lately

[cold vessel]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hits enter by accident when typing ' 😄

[red pewter]

It's really hard to learn without a classroom

[pine ginkgo]

you fuck

ing henbri

[cold vessel]

What?

[opal sequoia]

I hit a lot of keys by accident when I type.

[pine ginkgo]

hello

[opal sequoia]

I type whole words by accident. 😄

[pine ginkgo]

lately i don't type words

🤔

😦

[opal sequoia]

😦

[ocean robin]

🤔

[shy bobcat]

So yeah my German is OK mostly but then I make like a "first week of class" mistake here and there

[ocean robin]

LOL YOU DON'T SAY

[opal sequoia]

Dw so much about it Arizona.

[ocean robin]

There's me who actually says"du" to the teacher in the 1st day of class

[opal sequoia]

I think your doubts and self-criticisms drag you down a bit and you need to put that concern into productive improvements instead.

[ocean robin]

And then "ah" 🤔

[opal sequoia]

Like instead of saying "I really suck, I'm the worst" you should just write more German.

[shy bobcat]

Never forget Vorbereite dich für eine Welt des Schmerzen

[pine ginkgo]

[shy bobcat]

But yeah

[ocean robin]

Never forget the die Katze der Frau 🤔

[shy bobcat]

@opal sequoia I agree I just make self deprecating jokes a lot

[opal sequoia]

Flappy, did you write that homework I mentioned, btw?

[ocean robin]

Wait that was the other way around

[opal sequoia]

I saw that cbell did.

[pine ginkgo]

i just make fun of you all

npnp

so i don't die

[shy bobcat]

😄

[hot cloak]

[ocean robin]

About the adjectives? Not yet, I translated all day :x

[shy bobcat]

🍻

[opal sequoia]

Oh I see.

How did it go today?

[ocean robin]

EXTREMELY GOOD.

[pine ginkgo]

(in her experience)

ehehehee

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

don't usk us base

[hot cloak]

eheheh

[opal sequoia]

Let me test you, Flappy?

[ocean robin]

Sure.

[opal sequoia]

I don't like this horrible game that you guys are playing.

[shy bobcat]

🇳

[ocean robin]

LOL

[opal sequoia]

What topics were you learning since I was asleep btw?

[ocean robin]

🤔

genitive and nicht placement spam

[shy bobcat]

we've been practicing embedded clauses with the translaterooni sentences

[opal sequoia]

Oh, nice.

[pine ginkgo]

also verb positions

[opal sequoia]

Ones that are in the middle of a clause?

[pine ginkgo]

and postions of nicht

yep

[shy bobcat]

Yeah

Pretty much

😄

[pine ginkgo]

also some prepositions earlier

not sure when you were gone :D

[shy bobcat]

Pretty much whatever, since we've just had her been translating whatever

😛

[opal sequoia]

Sounds like a lot of interesting stuff.

And lots of room for mistakes too.

[shy bobcat]

Her translations weren't that bad minus the usual floppisiations

[ocean robin]

Ich mag nicht dies entsetzliche Spiel, das ihr spielt.

🤔

[sudden panther]

Yeah, I noticed that she had word order troubles when there are clauses within clauses, so we kinda did that and then memed away from the structured learning.

Sondern, Flappy?

[ocean robin]

nuuuh

[shy bobcat]

nicht placement

[ocean robin]

NOOO.

[pine ginkgo]

fuck

[sudden panther]

Out of 👀 out of .

[pine ginkgo]

arrem

fuck

fuck

[sudden panther]

Who hurt you Luna?

[ocean robin]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

it's not even the 2nd day

[shy bobcat]

Luna? Is everything OK?

[sudden panther]

Ahahahahaha.

[ocean robin]

Solet lagged

[sudden panther]

Flops hurt him.

[pine ginkgo]

yes

i had a bet

[ocean robin]

😦

[pine ginkgo]

that flops needed at least two days

to fuck up nicht placements again

[shy bobcat]

😦

[pine ginkgo]

she did it in like 8 hours

[sudden panther]

And this is the 3rd time she memed it up today.

[pine ginkgo]

the one time i believe in her

D:

[opal sequoia]

Heart-breaking.

[ocean robin]

😦

[shy bobcat]

das ist das dritte Mal, auf dem sie sie vermemt hat. 😦

[cold vessel]

I hope you got fantastic odds on that bet

[ocean robin]

I am sorry, Solet :<

[pine ginkgo]

i got arrem laughing

it's the worst

[ocean robin]

can imagine

[pine ginkgo]

anyway

fix the flops

i am eating

[shy bobcat]

@pine ginkgo may as well ask is auf dem correct in my last message

[sudden panther]

Flops. Next time you mess up a nicht, you're writing those rules you mentioned 50 times on paper.

[pine ginkgo]

i don't understand your auf dem

anyway

so maybe?

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

Whatever

[pine ginkgo]

what does the auf dem

refer to

[sudden panther]

Just use a dass

[shy bobcat]

Oh really

😅

Cool

[pine ginkgo]

help teeeis

[shy bobcat]

Or are you memeing

👀

[pine ginkgo]

no

i don't understand your sentence

so i am asking you

[shy bobcat]

I meant aerem

[cold vessel]

Just use aufm

[sudden panther]

I'm not memeing.

[ocean robin]

^

[pine ginkgo]

yeah

a dass would correct it

[shy bobcat]

yeah

[pine ginkgo]

the auf makes no sense

[shy bobcat]

I just don’t know when arrem’s answers are memes or not anymore

[pine ginkgo]

what does that even mean

in this context

[sudden panther]

You might have memed up "sie sie vermemt hat"

[shy bobcat]

nicht-Stellung

[pine ginkgo]

also rule of thumb

if you make a fake-verb

make it an easy fake-verb

with just verb + object

[sudden panther]

Or follow the rules carefully. 😛

[pine ginkgo]

if you add prepositions to fake-verbs

the fake-verb must be close to another verb that has the same preposition

[sudden panther]

I'd be willing to bet that he was going for sich vermemen though. Were you, Arimeme?

[pine ginkgo]

so you can get the meaning of the preposition from the real verb

[shy bobcat]

I guess so @sudden panther

yeah

no wait

was i?

[pine ginkgo]

the auf just makes no sense at all

[shy bobcat]

yeah ok the auf was a bad guess

[pine ginkgo]

what should auf etwas vermemen mean anyway

[shy bobcat]

the second sie is supposed to be “die nicht-Stellung” @sudden panther

[pine ginkgo]

etwas vermemen can be understood

[sudden panther]

Ohhh.

[pine ginkgo]

since it's simple

but auf etwas vermemen???

[shy bobcat]

@pine ginkgo I thought when you say “the X time, that” you used “das x Mal, auf dem”

😛

[pine ginkgo]

why

auf?

[shy bobcat]

IDK

[sudden panther]

No I think the "auf dem" was just a convoluted way of saying "dass". wot he sez

[pine ginkgo]

i take it back that you are close to C

[shy bobcat]

Ich habe mich vermemet 😦

[pine ginkgo]

like i stole pengu's c

[sudden panther]

Ari gets bullied more than Flops.

[ocean robin]

'Xcuse me

[pine ginkgo]

being able to understand fake-words is a good indicator of understanding of the language

[shy bobcat]

whatever, this is a latent symptom of “german can’t be like english ever since it’s foreign”-itis that I do

[pine ginkgo]

especially being able to create understandable fakewords

shows that you understand the language well!

[shy bobcat]

anyway. Das ist das dritte Mal, dass Flops sich vermemet hat 👍

[cold vessel]

What you're saying is, you only grant C status to people fluent in meme german?

[pine ginkgo]

eh

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

for me what is most important in fluency

[shy bobcat]

can we go back to making fun of flöps now 😄

[ocean robin]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

is being able to talk to people and understand conversational language

[hot cloak]

meow

[pine ginkgo]

you don't have to be able to create fake words

if you can understand them

but being unable to create fake words yourself can indicate how well you understand german being used

[shy bobcat]

I just didn’t know how to say “the X time, that Y”

[hot cloak]

fake news

[pine ginkgo]

sure you can be fluent in german if you only ever read olden german poetry

doesn't mean you can talk to people in germany

[shy bobcat]

I floppsed up

😔

[pine ginkgo]

that's the point, no?

it's hard getting c if you are not constantly talking in german

[shy bobcat]

meh anyway

[sudden panther]

Lesson learned: use German 24/7 and you'll be fluent in a month.

[shy bobcat]

#german-only is ded atm so not much talking in german to be had

[ocean robin]

👀

[quasi merlin]

Hi

[shy bobcat]

hey mika 😄

[hot cloak]

fluent in a month in German?

[ocean robin]

Ayyyy Mika.

[sudden panther]

Well, at his level.

[cold vessel]

Revive it then, ari

[quasi merlin]

Arizona hat Luna angememet und jetzt zermemet Luna Arizona?

[sudden panther]

Plus, #german-only isn't the only place where you can speak german. 😛

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

@quasi merlin ja

[hot cloak]

get a germa SO the fastest way

[shy bobcat]

ich vermeme mich viel zu viel

[whole rapids]

is sentence time over

[cold vessel]

Hope not

[shy bobcat]

Hopefully not

[ocean robin]

lol

[cold vessel]

I'd rather not go to sleep

[sudden panther]

Ab jetzt mobben wir Floppso ausschließlich auf Deutsch, Ari. Sie versteht uns eh nicht.

[shy bobcat]

passt 👍

[ocean robin]

👀

[sudden panther]

Bist du damit einverstanden, Floppo?

[ocean robin]

🤔

[shy bobcat]

Wenn nicht, machen wir es sowieso 🤷

[toxic urchin]

I got a sentence for you to translate
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach

[whole rapids]

okay, translate this:

Whose great idea was it to go to Iceland without any gloves?

[ocean robin]

NO

LOL

[sudden panther]

Was meinst du mit "NO LOL"?

[ocean robin]

Arrem decided to be on German mode heh.

[whole rapids]

Natürlich hat sie "KLAR, ICH MACHE DAS SOFORT" gemeint

[shy bobcat]

Arrem memt den Server durch, und Fläppy starrt nur floppend an

😄

[ocean robin]

👀

[shy bobcat]

^ guckt wie sie starrt 😛

[sudden panther]

Ja, das habe ich. Du musst kannst auch mitmachen. 😉

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

wieso “musst” einstreichen?

Wir wissen jedoch, dass sie muss

[sudden panther]

Also, Floppo, wie war dein Tag?

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther Ich rate dir dazu, #general-2 in #german-only2 nachzubenennen

😄

[sudden panther]

Tja, dann würde Floppsel weglaufen und nie wieder zurückkommen.

[cold vessel]

Not really seen this sentence structure before, so wild guess (ie. literal Norwegian): Wessen tolle Idee war es, ohne Handschuhe nach Island zu reisen?

[pine ginkgo]

arrem komm zeichnen

:D

[whole rapids]

Norwegian is cheating

[ocean robin]

Awww, I would have liked to draw witb ya too

Sadly can't

[sudden panther]

Und Ari sollte ganz allein üben? 😦

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther also einfach alle Channels in #german-only2-15 benennen 😉 dann kann Floppo nirgendwohin weggehen

[sudden panther]

Vong mir aus gerne.

[shy bobcat]

und ich würde gerne mit euch zeichnen

[whole rapids]

I think your sentence is fine, @cold vessel, although I am not sure it incorporates the "any" part, but I am not sure how to do so personally

[sudden panther]

ABER

[shy bobcat]

aber ich helfe meinem Papa mit Sachen 😦

[whole rapids]

my brain thinks one should use "keinerlei" but I dunno

[ocean robin]

Pferd, I can't translate now. I am too tired.

[sudden panther]

"Sachen"

[shy bobcat]

Dingen

[ocean robin]

🤔

[shy bobcat]

Dingern

[whole rapids]

bei Sachen?

[sudden panther]

Du kannst uns aber alles über deinen Tag erzählen, Flopsy.

[ocean robin]

👀

[cold vessel]

We know her whole day though, she's been translating since the morning

[ocean robin]

^

[sudden panther]

Auch als Anfänger sollte man in der Lage sein, einfache Fragen zu beantworten. Also lassen wir die 👀 weg und machen uns an die Arbeit. 😉

[shy bobcat]

Meine Augen weglassen Arrem?

[sudden panther]

Das kann sie uns selbst sagen.

[shy bobcat]

Ich will halt nicht blind sein 😦

👀

[sudden panther]

Blimd zu sein is aber sehr nice Ari, du kriegst frei geld vong dem regierung weil du blimd bimst ❤

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther davong hambs i ja forgetten 🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

[shy bobcat]

Ach ja, kein Memedeutsch, Fläppy lernt.

😄

[ocean robin]

LOL

[sudden panther]

Also Flops, kannst du uns jetzt bitte etwas auf Deutsch sagen. 😃

[ocean robin]

uuuuh

[shy bobcat]

“LOL” und “🤔” sind übrigens keine deutsche Wörter 😉

[sudden panther]

^Zählt nicht.

[whole rapids]

"in der Lage sein" is a nice verb thing to know, Danke unendlichmals Arrem

[ocean robin]

Meh. :^)

[shy bobcat]

Das auch nicht ^^

[sudden panther]

So wirst du nie B werden, Floppo. 😉

Gernerooni, Horsie. ❤

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther das Memechen da hat mit mir doch früher auf Deutsch gesprochen, es memt uns nur an.

🤔

[sudden panther]

Die Wixxerin! 😱

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin Wir beurteilen nicht so schwer 😉 wir wollen nur, dass du was sagst 😄

[sudden panther]

Also Floppo, du kannst uns zumindest sagen, was du heute gelernt hast.

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

Du hast doch nicht gelernt, du Memelein

[sudden panther]

Ich sage das jetzt so, wenn du uns nicht antwortest, werden wir morgen keine Sätze übersetzen und stattdessen reden wir ein bisschen auf Deutsch. ;)
"Stattdessen" kennst du hoffentlich schon. Es heißt "instead of [that]".

[shy bobcat]

Und dann fiel es uns ein: Es ist eine Unmöglichkeit, Fläpps sprechen zu lassen

[cold vessel]

Ich hoffe, dass sie endlich gelernt hat, wo das "nicht" zu plazieren

[pine ginkgo]

aRREM

komm jetzt

[sudden panther]

SOLEEET FLAPPSY WILL NICHT REDEN

[ocean robin]

NAH ARREM

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin Du hast schon in #german-only geredet. Wie ist es hier anders?

[sudden panther]

Na, dann müssen wir dich einfach dazu zwingen. 😉

[shy bobcat]

Und wenn ich “reden” sage @sudden panther meine ich echtes Reden, nicht nur “ LOL 🤔”

Also

WIESO KANN SIE DAS NICHT HIER?

[ocean robin]

👀

[shy bobcat]

Lass die Augen weg und sprich 😄

[sudden panther]

Na, das ist aber einfach zu beantworten. Weil sie Angst hat. Fehler sind ja etwas ganz Fürchterliches und man muss sie immer vermeiden, auch wenn das heißt, dass man gar nichts lernt. 🙄

[shy bobcat]

...

Du hast ja Recht.

[sudden panther]

So geht es aber nicht, Flops. 😉

[shy bobcat]

Ja wenn du B willst musst du sprechen ^^

@ocean robin ❤

[ocean robin]

jaaaap, das ich weiß, aber ich bin sehr schüchtern jetzt 🤔

[shy bobcat]

Sei das mal nicht. 😄

[ocean robin]

das ich weoß

hez

[shy bobcat]

Wir beurteilen nicht so schwer wie während einer Übersetzung.

Ich zumindest

Ich weiß nicht was Arrem machen wird

😛

[sudden panther]

Schau dir nur die dämlichen Fehler an, die Ari macht. Er hat sein Komma vergessen. 🙀

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

ja

[ocean robin]

Ariiii, Komma bitte.

[shy bobcat]

Bei Kommastellung bin ich wie A-Niveau, gebe ich zu 😂

[ocean robin]

lel

[sudden panther]

Also jetzt kannst du uns sagen, ob "das ich weiß" richtig ist. 😉

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

Möglicherweise mit "ja" oder "nein".

[shy bobcat]

^^ 😉

[cold vessel]

Ironically this sentence will take even longer because I have to ask about something: Ein großes Problem für mich ist, dass einen Satz zu schreiben dauert ungefähr fünf Minuten.. I doubt that second clause works, so how do you write something like that?

[shy bobcat]

was war das Original?

Oder ist das keine Übersetzung, sondern das Original selbst

[sudden panther]

Split it up.

that it takes 5 minutes to write a sentence. 😉

[pine ginkgo]

verb position

henbri

[cold vessel]

I'm not going to care about verb position before I even know how to structure the sentence

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther so habe ich vermutet, wollte ja nur sicher sein 😉

[pine ginkgo]

not sure what answer you want henbri

[shy bobcat]

presumably “correct my grammar pl0x”

[cold vessel]

No

[shy bobcat]

🤔

[cold vessel]

@sudden panther You mean something like Ein großes Problem für mich ist, dass es ungefähr fünf Minuten dauert, einen Satz zu schreiben?

I hate infinitives 👀

[opal sequoia]

Warum?

[shy bobcat]

👍

[whole rapids]

I am writing an entry for this fortnight's writing prompt but it's probs got too long now, dunno if anyone will correct it

fun tho

[shy bobcat]

@opal sequoia yo base

what were we supposed to read

for our thing

[opal sequoia]

We will be reading Rumpelstiltskin.

[ocean robin]

Waiiiiiit

[opal sequoia]

And then if we finish it we can pick something at that time.

[ocean robin]

We will read something?

When?

[opal sequoia]

Me and Kryptik are making our own reading circle with Arizona and Kelsey and some people like that.

And it starts in 30 mins.

[ocean robin]

AH

[sudden panther]

Yeah hen. For extra esness start with es ist ein Problem 😂

[ocean robin]

Can I try to join and speak if I feel that I am confident?

[shy bobcat]

it starts in 30 minutse

:thinkw

[sudden panther]

In 30 mins is fokken late.

[ocean robin]

1 AM is okaaaaay

[opal sequoia]

Sure, you can try it out, Flappy.

We haven't done it yet so we don't know how it will go.

[sudden panther]

You said you were too tired to translate an hour ago.

[ocean robin]

Yeah, I must say that is no longer true.

[whole rapids]

I would like to participate as well mabe

[shy bobcat]

ooh

[cold vessel]

Make it fünfzehn Minuten I guess. The point was going to how hard it is to participte in a conversation if you take forever to create a sentence 🙄

[opal sequoia]

And really the main reason we made it is because it's not at 3am for me like the other one.

😄

[ocean robin]

Yeeeah lel

Actually atm it's midnight

[opal sequoia]

(Plus it will be more B level compared to the normal one which is usually A level since most people are A who join it)

[sudden panther]

See. Base decided to make a reading circle that sucks for the Europeans.

[opal sequoia]

😏

[ocean robin]

Wat Arrem.

[whole rapids]

timezoneism

[opal sequoia]

Well it doesn't have to. That's just what Krpyitk chose.

[sudden panther]

Shh just let us believe that you're plotting against us.

[ocean robin]

:v

[opal sequoia]

😏

[whole rapids]

well, Kelsey is in Europe tho

[ocean robin]

invasion when

[opal sequoia]

Everyone's up playing pictionary, so it can't be that bad.

[sudden panther]

We might hang you later on, but we'll be gentle, we promise.

[ocean robin]

whoa whoa

[opal sequoia]

🙀

[pine ginkgo]

come join base

in preparation

[opal sequoia]

Maybe.

[fair iron]

Ping me when it starts, Base! 😃

[opal sequoia]

Sure.

[shy bobcat]

me too tbh 😄

[whole rapids]

ping entire Discord

[shy bobcat]

also link me to rumbpelstiksin or whatever it was we were reading

[sudden panther]

I'll give you the tldr.

[opal sequoia]

http://www.gasl.org/refbib/Grimm__Maerchen.pdf

[shy bobcat]

👍

[ocean robin]

lul

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther Und was ist denn mit #german-only-2 passiert?

[ocean robin]

whoooooooa 700 pages

[shy bobcat]

Du lässt die Leute hier Englisch sprechen.

[sudden panther]

There was a girl and her dad memed her over big time. And she became a slave for this weirdo. And he was gonna shoot her dog so she memed him over instead.

[ocean robin]

🤔

[sudden panther]

Ach ja, tut mir leid.

[opal sequoia]

Yeah, we're reading this whole thing today, Flappy.

[ocean robin]

wait what

[shy bobcat]

base, meme die arme Flappy nicht an

[sudden panther]

🇩🇪🇦🇹 oder

[opal sequoia]

Tut mir leid. 😄

[shy bobcat]

@ocean robin das PDF inhaltet all Grimms Märchen. Wir lesen nur einen Teil. Also eine Geschichte.

[ocean robin]

Ah.

[shy bobcat]

Und wenn das kein PDF ist, bin ich ein Dummkopf.

[ocean robin]

[shy bobcat]

naja, auch wenn es ein PDF ist, bin ich ein Dummkopf

[sudden panther]

Wat bedeutet inhalten Ari? ❤

[shy bobcat]

@sudden panther ich glaube, dass inhalten ist, wenn etwas etwas als Inhalt hat.

[sudden panther]

beinhalten

[shy bobcat]

ach ja 😄

[sudden panther]

Nicht zu verwechseln mit Bein halten

[shy bobcat]

👍 😛

also ist inhalten kein Wort?

oder nur das Falsche

[rugged frost]

enthalten gibt es

[shy bobcat]

ja

[sudden panther]

Tja, es ist kein Verb. Den Inhalten (dat. pl.) gibt es schon.

[shy bobcat]

Ja 😄

@rugged frost aber... ich wollte heute etwas ein bisschen verändern 😉

alle sind weg

😦

[opal sequoia]

[shy bobcat]

hallo

[fair iron]

[hot cloak]

[ancient spade]

@tribal warren the bar is clean here

[tribal warren]

the bar is clean

👌

[ancient spade]

Lol

So, your brother studies at USP?

[tribal warren]

Yes

[ancient spade]

That's very inspiring

[tribal warren]

And also lots of pressure

[ancient spade]

I see haha

That's a family of prodigies

[tribal warren]

aww

Not yet

[ancient spade]

Hahah

[tribal warren]

I was studying geology today

boring

as

hell

Rocks are hard

[ancient spade]

Hahhaha

I love puns

[tribal warren]

That was actually unintentional

[ancient spade]

But I'm terrible at making them

Yeah, it's happened to me too

In a special relativity class

[tribal warren]

I just realised how brilliant that was

Oh

oh nvm I thought you were in one right now

ignore me I'm dumb

[ancient spade]

Lol

[tribal warren]

special relativity

do you mean like Einstein's relativity?

[ancient spade]

Anyway, I just said "cara, esse assunto é muito massa"

When the teacher was talking about mass and stuff

[tribal warren]

"baita massa"

[ancient spade]

Yeah

[tribal warren]

get punnd

[ancient spade]

Lol

It was totally unintentional

[tribal warren]

Well it doesn't necessarily have to be "massa"

Photons

[ancient spade]

Hahha yeah

I tend to use that word way too often, so it should be expected

[tribal warren]

It's very interesting

[ancient spade]

I use this word massively

[tribal warren]

In Santa Catarina we use that a lot, and it's like the extreme opposite for Maranhão

wow

[ancient spade]

Hahaha

[tribal warren]

at least geographically speaking, they're very far away

and yet both use massa

[ancient spade]

Yeah

[tribal warren]

cool cool

[ancient spade]

Jewel

My mother uses this word a lot

[tribal warren]

hahaha

STOP MISTRANSLATING THOSE TERMS

literal translations make me cringe

[ancient spade]

Which is surprising, since people here don't use it that much

Lol

Watch João do litoral

It shows how broken our Portuguese is

[tribal warren]

This chromakey

[ancient spade]

Lol yeah

[tribal warren]

This is cringy

But it's smart

[ancient spade]

Yeah

I found it pretty funny at the time

[tribal warren]

What pasta

[ancient spade]

What?

Oooh

"que massa?"

[tribal warren]

there's this one video that's fucking hilarious

I'll tag you on #archived-media

if I can find it...

[ancient spade]

Haha sure

[tribal warren]

I think it got deleted

noo

[ancient spade]

Aww

[tribal warren]

:c

[sturdy shadow]

@pallid kelp

[clear pebble]

What is Astolfo doing in this faraway land

[sturdy shadow]

Being best girl

[pallid kelp]

❤

[valid ice]

ban weebs D:

[minor heart]

Nē

[opal sequoia]

Okay, Callum.

Will do.

[valid ice]

wow thanks for the quick response base

will leave a good tripadvisor score for you 😃

[opal sequoia]

🙂

[ocean robin]

🤔

[ocean robin]

Just in case for having them in front of my eyes.

1.Flops hat heute gelernt, dass es Teile von der Autobahn mit kleiner Geschwindigkeit Grenue gibt. 2. Flops wird gebannt sein, falls sie einen Fehler mache. 3. Die Computer berechnen in dem Computerszimmer.

[placid heath]

kleiner Geschwindigkeit Grenue

1. What's a Grenue?
2. How to form compounds?
3. What does klein mean? Does that make sense in that context?

[ocean robin]

lel did I write kleine

omg

I wanted to say "keiner" 🤔

[placid heath]

There's a german word for mit kein(e)(r)

[ocean robin]

🤔

[placid heath]

four letters

[ocean robin]

Ohne?

[placid heath]

Yup

[ocean robin]

christ

[fair iron]

Now fix Grenue. ^^

[ocean robin]

then yeah, we can have a compounded noun here and there

ah yeah

[fair iron]

And turn it into a compound noun.

Ah, good.

[ocean robin]

Look typos everywhere 🎉

So yeah, Grenze heh

And then wait that I write it 🤔

Geschwindigkeitsgrenze

[placid heath]

👍🏻

[ocean robin]

okay so

[cold vessel]

Stop searching for compound words part by part 👀

They are still compound words even though there's a space there

[fair iron]

Compound nouns aren't compound nouns if separated by a space. 🤔

[ocean robin]

1.Flops hat heute gelernt, dass es Teile von der Autobahn ohne Geschwindigkeitsgrenze gibt. 2. Flops wird gebannt sein, falls sie einen Fehler mache. 3. Die Computer berechnen in dem Computerszimmer.

lel Casca

[fair iron]

Wait.

So it is.

TIL.

[ocean robin]

then there's something on the 2nd

[placid heath]

The tense.

[ocean robin]

on wird gebannt sein

First yeah bannen becauae memes

[pine ginkgo]

🤔

[placid heath]

bannen / sperren is the accurate translation of ban

[pine ginkgo]

bannieren

ehehe

[ocean robin]

And rhen IDK but there's really something which bothers me 🤔

[placid heath]

SoletMeme

[pine ginkgo]

there's also something

that bothers me

[ocean robin]

let me find out

[pine ginkgo]

there's also more that bothers me

when i look at the other sentence

[ocean robin]

LOL PLEASE

[cold vessel]

I can't believe you wrote the last sentence like that, flappy

After all the memes

[ocean robin]

Yeeeeah I see that mistake in the 3rd sentence

[placid heath]

'eschnäää'aum

[ocean robin]

im Computerszimmer

[pine ginkgo]

lol

[ocean robin]

wait

:thinking:

is this s okay

[pine ginkgo]

yes

but there's still more

that bothers me

[ocean robin]

mmmh

[pine ginkgo]

wait

thwich s

[tribal warren]

xD this is gold

[fair iron]

I would say that that s is not okay.

^^

[ocean robin]

lel

[pine ginkgo]

i didn't see the s

i call obstruction of correction

[ocean robin]

I asked to you the question Solet 👀

anyway let's see

[placid heath]

Flappy, there's another word for computer room.

One with many Rs.

[ocean robin]

don't tell me that is Rechnerraum

[placid heath]

Would it work?

[fair iron]

^^

[ocean robin]

🤔

Only "Raum" eh

[placid heath]

What are the components of Rechnerraum? Are they a translation of computer room?

[ocean robin]

wait I saw on dict.cc that it really means computer room

[placid heath]

Yup. der Rechner is another word for computer.

[ocean robin]

so let's use that

1.Flops hat heute gelernt, dass es Teile von der Autobahn ohne Geschwindigkeitsgrenze gibt. 2. Flops wird gebannt sein, falls sie einen Fehler mache. 3. Die Computer berechnen im Rechnerraum. there. Next mistake wooo.

[hot cloak]

ein dummer Fehler

[pine ginkgo]

okay flapps

i need a reasoning from you

why did you write falls sie einen Fehler mache

emphasis on mache

[ocean robin]

christ

#howtoconjugateverbs

[pine ginkgo]

mhh

so it's just a mistake, huh

cause depending on context, that sentence can be absolutely correct

in that form

[ocean robin]

ah

[placid heath]

Conjonctif

:P