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What did they mean by this? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 75 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Clearly they are Jewish and their ancestors were part of The Madagascar Plan, where Nazi Germany was forced resettling Jewish people in Madagascar.

They have largely been isolated and weren't able to keep apprised of what happened after their family was resettled. Germany had been really pushing to establish a military base in Antarctica for decades, so the penguins had the understanding that Germany must be well established there by the time they got there.

So that is why Penguins from Madagascar would believe that people in Antarctica would be speaking German.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lol, have my upvote for a great backstory!

Also, I think the word you want is "apprised", which means "to inform", while "appraised" means "to evaluate".

Lots of homonyms in English, another pair is "weary/wary". Weary means fatigued, wary means cautious.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fixed. Sorry, English is my first language but my autocorrect is aggressive.

Also "appraised" and "apprised" are not homonyms, unless you pronounce them wrong.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

This is why I call it autoassume. I call it that so often that it's learned to suggest it when I type in aut

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Same with weary/wary

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also "appraised" and "apprised" are not homonyms, unless you pronounce them wrong.

My Texan ass has entered the chat

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You speak Texan, not American English. Ya'll get your own way of talkin' and power grid.

Best country in America.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Y'all get your own way of talkin'

Yay!

and power grid

Fuck!

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Freedom isn't free brother!

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weary and wary aren't pronounced the same....

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz -3 points 4 months ago

*In Canada...

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Weren't the penguins from a zoo in the US though? It's been a while since I saw the film.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Idk, I was too old and not on the right kind of drugs to watch it when it came out.

If that is true, my explanation still holds up with the change that their parents moved to America from Madagascar.

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

They are originally from Antarctica and only end up in the zoo in the USA, however this only occurs in the Pinguins of Madagascar, which came out after the original Madagascar, so their origin story could have been thought up differently by the writers of the Madagascar movie than how it happened in the Pinguins of Madagascar movie

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica_during_World_War_II

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The film is set in the present

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So what? Should they speak english? In Antartica, it doesn't make more sense than german.

[–] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Maybe since most of Antarctica is claimed by Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

But more pragmatically because most of the population is researchers, which you can expect knows english, the international language.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Conspiracy ww2 Nazi base

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

US education system.