I like my Buchstabensuppe with some Buchstabensalat.
Whack_Moles on
Norwegian: Bokstav
Excellent_Bull2301 on
Whaaaat when you cherry pick exclusively romance languages and a language where 2/3 of the vocabulary is romance loan vocab the one germanic language without many romance loan words has different vocabulary???????
Long_comment_san on
I used to hate on German language being so different but as I became older I realized that more different languages we have the better. It’s like colors. Not having color green would have robbed us of a lot of things.
It means book spell. The Germans got to keep their language by successfully warding off the Romans.
My_Super_Sweet_69 on
English: bookstaff
RuniKiuru on
Japanese: 手紙
It’s almost like when you pick a language with different origins and say it angrily, it’s going to sound different and angry. Wow. 🤯
ShadowCaster0476 on
It’s like English and pineapple
razvanciuy on
Here comes Romanian:
**Scrisoare**
JustQuestion2472 on
Word actually does make sense. Comes from the era of the early printing press, where letters were printed with these long sticks with letters on the end being used to write the print.
Buchstabe literally means “bookstick”
Capteeni on
Finnish: Kirje
mindgardening on
As a german and english speaker, I fucking LOVE these memes. And I love the german language.
Buchstabe = letter (alphabet)
Brief = letter (mail)
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I wrote my lover a letter, saying that I miss her, and would buchstabe her the moment we reunite.
Old_Network_3930 on
German words are just sentences that decided to stick together
TheLollyKitty on
Mandarin: sān
Cantonese: sâm
Korean: sam
Japanese: san
Thai: sām
English: three
Woah English is so weird!!!!!!
TCSHalycon on
Different language groups: exist
People: surprised Pikachu
DerSisch on
Much like every languages says “Ananas” ecxept ofc the english who scream: PINEAPPLE!
German isn’t an aggressive language, all comes down to pronounciation. And the reason this specific word is so different, is simple: We didn’t get conquered by the romans.
OpinionPutrid1343 on
Yeah also: let’s speak as gently and soft as possible, then scream frantically in german to make it sound aggressive.
MLYeast on
Romance language, Romance language, Romance language, Romance language, borrowed from romance language, Germanic language
So weird, right?
pinktherat on
wow it’s almost like words of germanic origin and words of latin origin are different!! who woulda thunk it!
kaputtschino on
… because German is part of a different language family. Not that deep.
Der_Dingsbums on
Almost like it’s not a romantic language.
Neither_Battle477 on
Everything is strange to you guys, man.
theGamingdutchman on
Wow, so weird indeed that languages that share a family and English which is an unholy abomination of germanic and latin languages have a similar word for something yet a language not sharing in that family has a different word for it.
Truly so weird. Weird that this joke keeps showing up that is.
SpecialistCareful326 on
English was once essentially a dialect of German, but after the French conquest of England it began to be Romanized. In Old English, the word letter was written as Bōcstæf.
Mishqueen1 on
Comparing a list of Latin based languages with one that isn’t, is apples and oranges.
Try comparing a list of languages with unrelated root sources.
If English folks write a letter, it contains many letters.
zfga on
Whenever they play this it’s mostly just romance language (english has most vocab from there so lets put it there too) vs germanic language.
MeeTy on
this is so dumb. romance languages have different words than a germanic one??? you don’t say. SO WEIRD!!!
Schanulsiboi08 on
Yeah, what a surprise that the germanic language isn’t like the romantic languages and the germanic language that is so heavily influenced by one of the romantic languages that it basically is half a romantic language
(sry to ruin the fun, but this meme format is kinda boring imo)
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Hindi: Patr
Most Slavic languages: pismo
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I like my Buchstabensuppe with some Buchstabensalat.
Norwegian: Bokstav
Whaaaat when you cherry pick exclusively romance languages and a language where 2/3 of the vocabulary is romance loan vocab the one germanic language without many romance loan words has different vocabulary???????
I used to hate on German language being so different but as I became older I realized that more different languages we have the better. It’s like colors. Not having color green would have robbed us of a lot of things.
In Lithuanian letter is raidė
Now do the same with library
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchstabe#/languages
Quite selective
backstab?
Písmeno 🇸🇰
Swedish: bokstav
It means book spell. The Germans got to keep their language by successfully warding off the Romans.
English: bookstaff
Japanese: 手紙
It’s almost like when you pick a language with different origins and say it angrily, it’s going to sound different and angry. Wow. 🤯
It’s like English and pineapple
Here comes Romanian:
**Scrisoare**
Word actually does make sense. Comes from the era of the early printing press, where letters were printed with these long sticks with letters on the end being used to write the print.
Buchstabe literally means “bookstick”
Finnish: Kirje
As a german and english speaker, I fucking LOVE these memes. And I love the german language.
Buchstabe = letter (alphabet)
Brief = letter (mail)
I wrote my lover a letter, saying that I miss her, and would buchstabe her the moment we reunite.
German words are just sentences that decided to stick together
Mandarin: sān
Cantonese: sâm
Korean: sam
Japanese: san
Thai: sām
English: three
Woah English is so weird!!!!!!
Different language groups: exist
People: surprised Pikachu
Much like every languages says “Ananas” ecxept ofc the english who scream: PINEAPPLE!
German isn’t an aggressive language, all comes down to pronounciation. And the reason this specific word is so different, is simple: We didn’t get conquered by the romans.
Yeah also: let’s speak as gently and soft as possible, then scream frantically in german to make it sound aggressive.
Romance language, Romance language, Romance language, Romance language, borrowed from romance language, Germanic language
So weird, right?
wow it’s almost like words of germanic origin and words of latin origin are different!! who woulda thunk it!
… because German is part of a different language family. Not that deep.
Almost like it’s not a romantic language.
Everything is strange to you guys, man.
Wow, so weird indeed that languages that share a family and English which is an unholy abomination of germanic and latin languages have a similar word for something yet a language not sharing in that family has a different word for it.
Truly so weird. Weird that this joke keeps showing up that is.
English was once essentially a dialect of German, but after the French conquest of England it began to be Romanized. In Old English, the word letter was written as Bōcstæf.
Comparing a list of Latin based languages with one that isn’t, is apples and oranges.
Try comparing a list of languages with unrelated root sources.
The Germans. You just can’t stay mad at ‘e[m.](https://comb.io/sajPYl.mp4)
Schrieb er in dicken Lettern.
If English folks write a letter, it contains many letters.
Whenever they play this it’s mostly just romance language (english has most vocab from there so lets put it there too) vs germanic language.
this is so dumb. romance languages have different words than a germanic one??? you don’t say. SO WEIRD!!!
Yeah, what a surprise that the germanic language isn’t like the romantic languages and the germanic language that is so heavily influenced by one of the romantic languages that it basically is half a romantic language
(sry to ruin the fun, but this meme format is kinda boring imo)