For the longest time I believed Germany had no comedians, then someone told me that Mystery of the Druids was meant to be satire of English Police.

Then I was like "Okay that explains a lot."

It's no coincidence that two of the words I recognized are cognates in English. "Fahr" I knew because I was always amused by the phrase "Gute Fahrt!"

EDIT: I just realized there are still remnants of "fahr" cognates in English, such as in "wayfarer."

Alles gut. Deine Vergesslichkeit hindert mich nicht daran, hier zu pfostieren.

In English, I like to think it would be a "thingie." Like Germans are constantly trying to remember the word "lighter" and they're like, "you know, the whatsit, the... fire... thingie."

How does that story portray dark skin as worse than light? What am I missing? Just sounds like the dude showed the kids that even if you change the skin color, you're still the same person.

Or do you mean because the white kids are bullying the black one and not vice-versa? Cause yeah.. that might not be perfect nowadays, but it's still just trying to teach the kids not to bully the immigrants just because they're different. Guess they could've gone for something more neutral like some animals or something, but c'mon..

my lack of fucks about der, die, das, dem etc made it very obvious I wasn't a native speaker.

I employ many non native speakers and most of them struggle with their articles and are very self conscious about them. They often consider themselves bad speakers because of this and I fear they sometimes talk less because they don't have the courage to make grammar mistakes.

I always tell them that I don't give a fuck about articles. Most of the time they don't convey any meaning. You can skip them or use a generic "de" to fake any article. For me as an employer it's more important that you practice talking, get a good vocabulary and have your times (especially Präsens, Perfekt, Futur) straight.🤷

That's going to be in my head for a while. Bastard.

I don't know about German, but in Swedish it looks really messy if you sunder your compound words. In general I think people know what you mean regardless, but you can end up with peculiar double meanings. There are plenty of signs, notes, and what have you that people have posted online for a laugh.

Off the top of my head

• Gå lättpackad i fjällen
  • Travel lightly (as in luggage) in the mountains
• Gå lätt packad i fjällen
  • Travel slightly intoxicated in the mountains
• Sjukgymnast
  • Physiotherapist
• Sjuk gymnast
  • Diseased/Sick gymnast
  • Addendum. Sjuk could also be used as an emphasizer just like in English. Think "bro that's a sick outfit" kind of thing, so it could be read as "awesome gymnast"
• Årets sista svenskodlade tulpaner
  • The last Swedish-grown tulips of the year
• Årets sista svensk odlade tulpaner
  • The last Swede of the year cultivated tulips

It's also worth noting that the tones can be different, so if you "hear" the words as you read them, then "lättpackad" and "lätt packad" sounds different.

when you know a little German it's much less confusing than it seems

speaking German is easy. Just know German!