So I am refreshing my German using Duolingo -- 146 day streak woo -- and one of the words today was Ernst, meaning seriousness. One of the sentences I encountered three times with this word; the first time was the “refrigerator magnet” sort of thing where you have a list of words that you pick out the correctly translated sentence from.
The German sentence was “Im Ernst” -- and there is no punctuation in Duo but the vocal inflection was as a question. Literally, this translates to “in the seriousness”
The only possible English translation from the provided words, and apparently the default translation for that sentence, is “No kidding”.
Seriously, Duo? Seriously?
The German sentence was “Im Ernst” -- and there is no punctuation in Duo but the vocal inflection was as a question. Literally, this translates to “in the seriousness”
The only possible English translation from the provided words, and apparently the default translation for that sentence, is “No kidding”.
Seriously, Duo? Seriously?