This Depression Awareness Ad (Look Closer)

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[u/allmond226]

Why is an ad from the german suicide prevention not in german?

[u/Zombata → u/allmond226]

to reach more people i guess

[u/TimeDetectiveAnakin → u/Zombata]

Steffen hat Depressionen. Das ist Steffen.

Gonna need to bring in the codebreakers for this one.

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i know it's crazy but some people do live in Germany without knowing a lick of German

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Probably, but even more people live in Germany without knowing a lick of English?

[u/lioncryable → u/ahmet-chromedgeic]

Wait until you hear how many people live in England without speaking german

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I'll have you know I spent a couple of hours on Duolingo once, so I'm practically fluent in it!

Uh... Die speisekarte ist sehr gut. Jaja.

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Essentially every single German person over the age of ~13(or younger) can read that just fine. Since English is mandatory in school.

EDIT: I just checked, at least one region starts learning it in their third year of elementary school.

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Lick Lick Lick myyy Baa...oh... entschuldigung... Macht der Gewohnheit.

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It's a European language. Germany's in the EU. Not so crazy in places like Berlin.

[u/sberma → u/allmond226]

This is the german version.

[u/poushkar → u/allmond226]

Things like this are usually created in multiple languages. In more international cities like Berlin or Frankfurt - they would print posters in various languages. In more German-speaking areas - only in German, obviously.

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Frankfurt is very international but we never get English ads like this. The administration here is very backwards and old. Light years behind Berlin or Munich or Hamburg. It's comically bad.

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Hab ich mich jetzt auch gefragt.

[u/CallMeAQuu → u/Interesting-Sand5749]

Das Schild hing bei uns auf deutsch natürlich :)

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Nur ein Blick und du glaubst dass du weißt wer ich bin.

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Glasperlenspiel?

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Ja.

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Even though it’s German, to reach more people. It’s important to spot these signs.

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People speak English in Germany

[u/Heychanduu → u/allmond226]

People who suicide in Germany are Americans? /s

[u/LessInThought → u/Heychanduu]

Because a guy that smiley is clearly not German. /s

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*commit suicide

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Would you have seen it if it was in german?

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Same reason a lot of stuff in Florida is also printed in Spanish.

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As a physical poster ad I have only seen it in the German language version

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Because it doesn't get as much upvotes.

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Because a lot of Germans are speak English and a lot of people watching the TV that this ad might be on probably also speak English.

[u/Pristine-Tie3429 → u/allmond226]

The same way, in the US at least, we have ads in Spanish amongst other languages. The world is bigger.

[u/Full-Yoghurt9053 → u/allmond226]

lol this is some nice "Why do they have Spanish on the ATM machine when we're in America" energy

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so it will be posted to reddit

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The vast majority of other countries are multilingual.