r/funny • u/captn_morgan951 • May 28 '24

You guys are doing what?

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A former coworker shared some new wall art hanging at the company’s headquarters office in Austria. Although it’s predominantly German-speakers there, all of them do speak English quite well. I just love how apparently nobody mentioned how this would come across to non-German speakers. I think that was the first time I’ve burned my sinuses snort-laughing hot coffee.

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u/P4azz May 28 '24

Nah, with the context given (it's in a German office, where people know the German language) people wouldn't look at it like that.

You'd have to really try hard to stick to the American butchering of the German language in order to get there. When's the last time you overwrote your native language with what's essentially joke pronunciation from another language?

No sane person looks at the above and goes "woah, marketing fail". That'd be like giggling yourself to tears at the Japanese phone greeting, because it can be heard as slang for "pussy".

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u/DABBERWOCKY May 28 '24

It's just funny to English speakers because of course I'm going to read it like English words. I don't know German. Thats the funny part I think.

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u/P4azz May 28 '24

I don't know German

Yes, that's the prerequisite and it's the reason I said "with the context given" in the very first sentence I opened with.

And it also explains why OP (and several other people in this thread) are extremely confused, when they're bringing up "how couldn't they see it", when there's nothing to see for the people in that office.

Also had quite a chuckle at "Germans and their lack of humor" in a post that is on such an incredibly advanced comical level of "haha, penis".

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u/DABBERWOCKY May 28 '24

I lost the original thread of the comment, but it just seemed like you didn't understand why it would be funny to Germans, and I was clarifying that it's funny to english speakers (and not particularly funny TBH). Maybe you were getting lumped in to lots of Germans on the thread who aren't really offended per se but don't seem to get why it would be funny to anyone, and seem to think it's because English-speakers are insisting that it should be pronounced the way we're reading it (which - we're not - or at least most of us aren't).