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    5 months ago

    Zangendeutsch, literally, plier(tongs) German is a form of meme German in which every instance of English (there are many) is literally translated into German, leading to confusion and amusement. I assume plier English is a similar form of literal translation that arises in comedy.

    I’m not familiar with these idioms, but I’m not a native German speaker. This is German sentence structure (verbs at the end in secondary clauses and general ordering of prepositions) though, so maybe it’s from German?