As joking about German words works incredibly well in English, here’s the original:
There you go. Now you can be sure that the joke’s just as funny as originally intended.
Didn’t know it means loser for rappers. Guess that means I am either online gamer or old.
How do you say “jauntily”? Kecklich?
It’s also keck. You can say “Die Kinder schauen keck hinter dem Busch hervor.”
-Lich is a cognate to -ly, but more in the friendly or manly sense. German adjectives can generally be used as adverbs, just without declining them (changing the ending). -Weise is also used for adverbs only, but using that too often outs you as a non native speaker (from a non native speaker, studying to be a German teacher)
The last appearance of “Keck” I came across:
Doch auch am nächsten Tach - ach, du Schreck! -
wird ab acht wieder keck das Dach gedeckt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPv1FTSmYNoKek is used instead of lol on 4chan a lot.
Cryptographers use it for “key encryption key”, and they’re a subtype of nerd
Would’ve been better if you hinted that the mother was German too. Like, have him refer to her as “Oma” or something.
Like, idk about where, but in American English, if you’ve got a 1st-gen grandparent, a lot of English-only kids refer to them by the terms in their grandparents language. Especially Greeks, Germans, and Latin-Americans.
Wow, didn’t know that! Might just fix it later, thanks for the input!
kekekekeke
