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I still don't know what ich_iel is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
It's the German version of me_irl. Stands for "Ich _ im echten Leben" and is a direct translation of the English
Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)
Happy to help
Oh my god, you're woke!
Whoops, guess I'm now the enemy of a hundred million Americans
My bad
Omg I was reading it as "ich lel" not "ich iel" this whole time ๐ thanks
It is pretty close on the pronunciation, except ch is not sh. Unless you're speaking certain regional dialects :)
The closest pronunciation you can get in English is probably eek.
I'm a German native who studied linguistics (ok, computational linguistics with a minor in phonetics and phonology), but I basically only speak my regional dialect well. I was visiting a friend in Berlin once and a stranger in a bar complimented me that I "speak good German for a foreigner".
I regarded it as a potential evidence for my unfounded and highly debateable hypothesis that the dialect we speak in the region is not in fact a dialect, but its own language.
Bless you sir or madam, you know not how long I have suffered
It also incorporates c/memes, basically
It started as a German version of me_irl (hence the name "ich im echten Leben") and developed a culture on its own including bad translations from English and other insiders
It's mostly ramen, cows and trains now.
As in "ze ~~motorboat~~ hovercraft is full of iel"?
Hovercraft, but yes
I blocked that both on Reddit and here at the very beginning, without knowing what iel means, the posts were mostly unsympathetic and irritating.