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[–] Nachtara@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 weeks ago

Zu Hilf'! Das Kind brennt lichterloh!

[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Wo sind die Eltern wo?

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We äctually have a word for zhis, "Märchenbuchlebenswegbeschreitungszwang"!

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For feline observed spontaneous combustion or fear of German authors?

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For feeling like you have to live in a German fairy tale. The cat one would be the Haustierbesitzerverbrennungsprozessbeobachtung, the other would be the Märchenschreiberangststörung. Silly, that's German 101!

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fuck me - I'm still stuck on when to use "der," "die," or "das."

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 42 points 3 weeks ago

It's simple, you use 'der' when using 'the' is appropriate. 'Die', on the other hand, is equivalent to 'the' and takes those places instead. Then comes 'das' which means 'the' and you can just map that to its English equivalent.

Hope it helps! :)

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

You can stick a lot of German words together, but it isn't easy to give this mess a meaning. It isn't normally used. More than 3 is blasphemy.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure if trolling or serious tbh

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago

The neat part about this language is that these words started existing properly at the very moment I've typed them out.

Now if I get enough people to use it so that they turn up in the Duden, they become entirely official.

[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Ah yes, the girl that was burned alive for not using ze proper sewing technique, an all time German classic Gutenachtgeschichte.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

She was burned alive because she played with matches.

[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

wasn't she burned alive for playing with fire?

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

My grandma had the Struwwelpeter book. I did kinda enjoy it if I remember correctly. The guy cutting off a kid's fingers with his huge scissors did kinda creep me out tho.

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[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was particularily fond of the one where two boys play pranks on adults. Until they get ground to crumbs while alive and then fed to the geese in the end, that is...

[–] micutio@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Max und Moritz! Always admired Wilhelm Busch's drawing style.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Here in Estonia we have a meat comp named after them. Wonder what they make their sausage out of...

[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

  • shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
  • fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
  • Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
  • wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
  • Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
  • etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

Well that explains why my psychiatrist’s nickname for me is “Peter, Philip, and Johnny in a trenchcoat.”

[–] Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had this book when I was a child.

The illustrations are permanently burned to my mind's eye.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Me too. Can't forget the child who starves to death. Drawing stick figures was a pain.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

*Struwwelpeter

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 14 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

German fairy tales are dark

laughs in Irish.

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[–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This book didn’t traumatise me but I remember it was really dark and maybe too dark for kids.

Remembering the guy with the long legs cutting fingers off, this is horror movie material how I remember it… maybe traumatise it did

[–] freeman@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I still remember the soup standing ontop of the grave of the boy that didnt want to eat and so he just died. Also how thin he was in the last drawing of him. It was haunting. th-1674725500

After 4 days he was "as thin as a thread".

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but now you aren't a thumb sucker anymore, right? By the help of that skillful guy.

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[–] finder585@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yo, is it too late to find another author? Asking for a friend.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

The twist is that it's a German Humoristic tale.

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Feyter@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just thinking the other day... Someone should make a move from the Struwwelpeter Book. PEGI 18

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

But how? In a Final Destination flow, where the audience is thinking: "oh boy, these kids will all die after school."

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

She must be one hell of a liar if her whole dress is on fire.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man: Look up the Korean version of cindarella (Wikipedia has a brief on the cindarella page): The evil step sister (only one in that version) gets butchered and made into a korean dish and send to the evil step motger as a gift. after she ate it, she gets told that she just ate part of her daughter before also getting executed.

[–] anubis119@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Learn your rules. You'd better learn your rules.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Don't make me call the taylor!

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