Yes, ich_iel mostly just takes English words and translates them 1:1. Doesn't actually make sense in German, but that's part of the joke. If you translate it back to English 1:1 again you should understand it perfectly.

As a native German speaker I often had to translate ich_iel memes 1:1 to English first to understand them myself. Its basically English but in German.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The English idioms must be super confusing. We have some odd ones like "chop a tree down" followed immediately be "chop a tree up".

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Hacke einen Baum runter.

Hacke einen Baum hoch.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kleine Hiebe fällen große Eichen!