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TV? WiFi? Bus?

• aleph_minus_one 3y ago
  > TV? WiFi? Bus? At least the first two words are different in German: - TV: [der] Fernseher - WiFi: WLAN (Wi-Fi is rather a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance; in my observation spreading the usage of this trademark was mostly successful in the USA)
  • narag 3y ago
    Bummer, I believed I could use ich glotz tv if someone asked me if I can speak some German. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo
    • aleph_minus_one 3y ago
      If you read the lyrics of this song > https://genius.com/Nina-hagen-band-tv-glotzer-white-punks-on-dope-lyrics https://genius.com/Nina-hagen-band-tv-glotzer-white-punks-on... you realize that this song is about some lowly educated proll who watches TV all day. By deliberately using quite some colloquial and unsophisticated words and phrasings in the lyrics, the singer/songwriter sends a very clear message how much TV dulled this person's mind.
      • narag 3y ago
        Thank you! no way that I could know that words and phrasings were intentionally dumb from the translation, though the meaning I knew. I'll better look for a different nonsensical bit taken from another song :)
  • mrits 3y ago
    I thought too long on this and was just thinking of words that almost everyone would know the definition of.
• grishka 3y ago
  Televizor, WiFi, avtobus
• mostlylurks 3y ago
  >bus Mandarin chinese: 公共汽車 (gōnggòng qìchē)
  • est 3y ago
    巴士 is widely used as well
• mihaaly 3y ago
  Facebook then or google as verb. : )