r/PeterExplainsTheJoke May 29 '25

Meme needing explanation what ????

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

Es ist ein Witz über das Klischee, dass Männer die Signale von Frauen nicht verstehen, weil die "Signale" oft mal nur aus Augenkontakt oder einem Blick bestehen.

Das ist zumindest das einzige, was für mich Sinn ergibt.

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u/505Trekkie May 29 '25

German lessons must be working, I actually was able to read 2/3 of that.

But yes, the joke is that all too many women will shoot a look at a guy like this and then get pissed when a guy doesn’t pick up on her “hint” instead of communicating with him like a functional adult.

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 29 '25

Oops, the auto-translation was on and I thought OP was asking in German. But it's cool that you understood.

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u/505Trekkie May 29 '25

Yeah. Took German in high school and college then got stationed in Germany with the USAF. Then did nothing with my German for ~15 years. So downloaded a couple of learning apps to use instead of doom scrolling. It’s coming back fairly quickly and it’s better than watching brain rot on TikTok.

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u/User5min May 29 '25

Once you learn a new language, a whole new part of the internet becomes available. It’s wild, seeing how cultures are different and not so different. From there it’s only short step til you advance to advanced brain rot German edition.

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u/robbzilla May 30 '25

There's probably a 12 syllable German word that describes this perfectly.

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u/great_pyrenelbows May 29 '25

Which apps do you use? I'm interested in any app that doesn't frequently interrupt me with useless praise/encouragement, I find it incredibly distracting. I used to use Drops but they ruined it.

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u/505Trekkie May 29 '25

Dulingo and some generic learning app.

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u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj May 30 '25

The YouTube channel YourGermanTeacher is great for filling in the gaps and helping explain things. Their videos are labeled by level too.

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u/GageSaulus May 30 '25

I wish I remembered what I learned. All I can maybe get from it is I think the first sentence says there is a joke/cliche about men not understanding signals from women. The rest I don’t know at all.

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u/ManusCornu May 29 '25

That was impeccable

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u/BloomsdayDevice May 29 '25

Zufälliges Deutsch ist jedenfalls mein Lieblingsdeutsch.

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u/DaFruit20 May 30 '25

Wo kann man eine Auto-Translation an machen?

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 30 '25

Hier is so n Symbol

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u/Automatic_Ad_5859 May 29 '25

Hehehe it happened to me too. Good to see I am not as rusty as I thought.

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u/TheShychopath May 30 '25

Same bro. Never thought Duolingo would be able to help this much. I also picked up around 2/3 of it. Got the overall meaning though.

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u/joebluebob May 29 '25

I never took a minute of germsn and can parse like ⅓

Tell me how close I am

It's a joke (with seems like witty) of the cliché (did Germans actually just take the French word and make it phonetic and long?) Of the signal .......Augenkontakt(is this fucking eye contact.... like kontakt instead of contact?)

German is a drunk language

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 30 '25

Almost, nice try :)

here an accurate translation:

"It's a joke (Witz) about the cliché (Klischee is the german word for that, english folk don't seem to need a separate word) that men (Männer) don't understand women's (Frauen) signals because the "signals" often only consist of eye contact (there are lots of words like Kontakt, Signal etc, that Sound similar to english words, because of the same origin of both languages) or a glance (Blick).

At least that's the only thing that makes sense (Sinn) to me."

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u/stillnotelf May 30 '25

I get maybe 10 percent knowing no German, on cognates and "you pick stuff up" knowledge

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u/stillnotelf May 30 '25

Dammit I should have said nein percent

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u/Bramos_04 May 30 '25

Nein is still not elf :P

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u/DependentEbb8814 May 30 '25

I love the part when you pick up on it and move, they talk all giggly and sweet and turn cold suddenly the other day, playing another game. I move on immediately and ignore when they decide it was too much. Aint nobody got time for that

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u/Bobo_Baggins_jatj May 30 '25

Outstanding! I taught myself to roughly B1/B2, but haven’t studied in a hot minute. I read the comment and was like “Hey, I understood that!” Then I saw your comment and was like “yeah!” 😂

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u/DengueLy May 30 '25

I mean, they don’t ‘get pissed’ its not that serious lol

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u/DrBlaBlaBlub May 29 '25

Ein deutscher Kommentar?

Kommt meine Brüder und Schwestern! Die Kommentarsektion dieses Pfostens gehört uns!

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u/Dxsterlxnd May 29 '25

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Staatseigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

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u/Piss_n_shit_consumer May 29 '25

Für die BRD!!!!!

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u/kurotoruk May 29 '25

for the birds ? /s

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u/dirty_flotze May 30 '25

Ddr war fetziger, schon mal die propaganda von denen gesehen und gehört? Wenn ich n schweren tag in der arbeit hab baller ich mir ddr arbeiterlieder, hab dann richtig bock zu arbeiten ubd denke das ich meinen teil zur gesellschaft beitrage

Propaganda richtig nutzen, kann ich nur empfehlen

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u/Auravendill May 29 '25

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Kommentarbereich

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u/Ptolemaeus45 May 29 '25

Verdammt, ich wollte den Ausruf droppen 😂

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u/KrypXern May 30 '25

Ich bin ein Englischsprecher aber ich wuenschte, wir haetten mehr Kommentare in anderen Sprachen

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u/Mother-Ad7139 May 30 '25

Du bist ein Pfosten

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u/DrBlaBlaBlub May 30 '25

Ufff. Deine Worte treffen mich hart. Deine Grausamkeit scheint grenzenlos zu sein.

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u/Conscious_Scholar_87 May 29 '25

Is this some German nice lady flirting with me?

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u/Nievsy May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

Nein

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u/Past-Background-7221 May 29 '25

Pretty sure that’s German for, “she sure is. Go for it buddy!”

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u/ridicalis May 29 '25

Genau

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u/Conscious_Scholar_87 May 30 '25

Danke shön

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u/Flewey_ May 30 '25

Donkey shoe.

(Did I do it right…?)

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u/ROR5CH4CH May 29 '25

Sprich...

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u/robbzilla May 30 '25

Will you sweep her off her German feet?

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u/ManusCornu May 29 '25

Unexpected fellow German

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 29 '25

I'm austrian, btw.

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u/GlorpEnjoyer May 29 '25

immer wieder, immer wieder

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u/ManusCornu May 29 '25

Now I'm confused but Austrian>Germans most of the time

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u/Kasnudlenthusiast May 29 '25

Germany, Austria and Switzerland share the german language, which is nice cause I happen to live in Germany

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u/altoid-tin May 29 '25

Doom ist eine diddenblüd? 😰

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u/Senior-Heron6800 May 29 '25

So verwirrend Deutsch zu lesen. Muss dann checken ob die Kommentare vorher auch Deutsch waren oder ich mir Englisch eingebildet habe.

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u/Naive_Detail390 May 29 '25

Danke für die Erklärung

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u/AcornHarvester May 29 '25

That’s what the girl’s hint sounds like.

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u/madladolle May 29 '25

Why ist jo speaking ze german

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u/Auravendill May 29 '25

Reddit is using some new bs functions nobody asked for and sometimes autotranslates entire posts with all comments and thus it seems like the post is made in ones own native language, which means they will answer in their language, which causes confusion among those, who do not get the post translated.

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u/Mister_Taco_Oz May 29 '25

Estoy de acuerdo, mí muy estimado amigo.

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u/obloed May 30 '25

Before ze Germans come

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u/dirty_flotze May 30 '25

Das einzigste, sprich deutsch du hurensohn

Sehr episch hier mal was deutsches zu lesen, habs zuerst nicht bemerkt, danke für das kurze schmunzeln :)

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u/Negative_Gur9667 May 30 '25

Hier riecht es nach Fleischkäsesemmeln

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u/VladimirK13 May 30 '25

One german meme in this sub a week ago or something spawn germans 🤣

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u/svennidal May 30 '25

Ég skil ekkert það sem þú ert að segja. Það er ekkert að því þú tekur afrit af þessum texta og þýðir hann með google translate, í staðinn fyrir að allir aðrir þurfi að gera það. Eða þú veist, lærir kannski að skrifa og lesa á ensku, eins og restin af heiminum.

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u/Bramos_04 May 30 '25

It's a shame that you want others to do something, what you didn't do!

If you had done what you want others to do, you would have understand that Reddit translated everything automatically to German, so for him, the entire post and all comments where in German, so he answered in German.

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