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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
Something I found on Facebook, it was a little kind of cute phrase that goes something like this;
"Don't be sad, because sad backwards is das, und das ist nicht gut".
I was just happy I was able to understand "und das ist nicht gut" without going to google translate, and knowing what word das was translating to (das being translated to that), though I keep translating it to "and that's not good" instead of "and that is not good", "and that's not good" just sounds better in my head, I dont know why.
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I mean, as far as I know, German has no equivalent to 's as an abbreviation of "is". And in translation you're guided by what sounds natural.
Now, there might be all kinds of appropriate abbreviations in various colloquial dialects that I don't know about. Which is neither here nor there, I guess. Because at this point I'm quite confident that if I don't know about them you're not going to see them in a meme meant for general English consumption (I assume).