• Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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    9 months ago

    My German is terrible I feel like I’m missing something here that translate isn’t conveying x.x

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      9 months ago

      Stör (fish) = sturgeon

      stören (verb) = to disturb.

      Combine Stör with many stupid things and you get some german jokes which are so bad that they are funny again.

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      9 months ago

      The fish sturgeon is called “Stör” in German. The verb “to annoy” means “stören”.

      Most of these memes that were posted recently are puns where random German words that contain “stör” or a simmilar sounding syllable is replaced by the fish.

      <º))))><

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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        8 months ago

        Thank you for this. I’m discovering puns to be really hard to pick up on with only a rudimentary understanding of a language.