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Originally Posted by ArcheM
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).
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I mean, I just went with what sounded better in my head, and that was "and that's not good", though the translation really is "and that is not good".
I'm still trying to figure out how the first word(s) in the song in my signature get translated from "ich bin" to "I'd", since "ich bin" is I am.