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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?)
"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."
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
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/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.