• idiomaddict@feddit.de
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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?

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      5 months ago

      I would say that plier english is, when english words on german grammar meets. I hope that this clear was.