The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 2 年前People's Reaction When You Start Speaking Their Language.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1697cross-posted to: yurop@lemm.eecartographyanarchy@lemm.ee
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minus-squareBigBananaDealer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 年前when my dad was stationed in germany all he ever learned to say was “which way to the train station?”
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 年前So he literally “only understands train station”. “Verstehe nur Bahnhof” is a common German expression to say that you have no idea what someone just said (because of jargon, or whatever), which supposedly comes from people that came to Germany and only new/understood “train station”.
when my dad was stationed in germany all he ever learned to say was “which way to the train station?”
So he literally “only understands train station”.
“Verstehe nur Bahnhof” is a common German expression to say that you have no idea what someone just said (because of jargon, or whatever), which supposedly comes from people that came to Germany and only new/understood “train station”.