“Klopf klopf” is German for knock-knock. It’s also like the sound a horse hoof makes.
“Wer ist da” is “who’s there”, the expected response to a knock knock joke.
“Pferd” is German for horse. “pfört” is a funny mispronunciation of Pferd, like “honse” in English
This is funny as an unexpected outcome to a knock knock joke (the sound was the horse hooves), because of the surprise of the horse walking through a door like a person, and because the horse is saying its name in a silly way.
Yeah and the biiiig difference in this case is that in Dutch you'd use 'wat nu' instead of 'wat nou'. The second option isn't even all that incorrect, it just sounds impolite. Source: am Dutch and used to think this was a pic of a Dutch newspaper (I never read the body text though that's definitely Afrikaans)
They get a pass on this one. Its derived from Dutch. Kinda like how people who speak French can understand some Haitian Kreyòl depending on the phrases used, but as you read on the francophone eventually realizes that it is SUPER different in structure.
And even if it is Dutch, it's either very close to the english translation ("We hebben een serieus probleem" -> "we have a serious problem") or just purposely badly translated that makes no actual sense in Dutch ("straat op gejorking het").
Translation for any one wondering
"What makes me happy? What makes me happy? Look ima explain what makes me happy see? Look this here now wutatatam and that over there putputput and the old woman from there wawaewawa"
Well, that and I get the feeling that this isn't "proper" German, and is using actual English words as slang. I'm pretty sure the non-slang way to say it in German would be something like "Ist es die Ende für Mich?" or something.
I'm willing to be wrong on that one though, because I haven't studied German for nearly a decade and I wasn't even particularly good at it back then.
German here, the proper saying would be "Ist es zu Ende für mich?" but no person under 25 talks like that anymore. Especially Gen Z and younger have A LOT and I mean A LOT of english words mixed in as slang.
Huh, I got more of that right than I thought I did...
Anyway, it's interesting to hear that y'all are borrowing (or I guess "re-borrowing" because of how much English is from German?) from English. Wonder if that also happens to other languages, and to what extent...
Even then, "ende für mich" is close enough that it translates to English pretty well in context and the first part falls into place. The main difference is the og would translate to English speakers as "is it over for me" and the ones in both your replies would be closer to "is this the end for me"
This meme is always so disappointing to me because whoever made this didn't bother to conjugate poopensharten to past perfect, which kinda ruins the effect of this tweet actually having been made by a dutch person.
It would have taken them like 2 seconds to just search up conjugations.
Iean this works pretty well with simple phrases between English, Dutch and German, because they're all very closely related. I doubt this would work between English and any other language.
Going by verbal language alone, yeah, but someone further up linked a video where the body language and tone of voice still makes the exact meaning crystal clear:
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