Zu viele Grammatikregeln, nicht genüg Wortnuancen.
Had to deal with some boys in my class making a rape joke last week. When they got marched to the office for a Stern Talking To, it turned out they were not trying to be horrific. They had seen the word “rape” used on internet comments, but not connected it with the German Vergewaltigung (which is rooted in the word for violence in a clear way). Instead from context they’d guessed the meaning was something like winning or beating someone at something, and were horrified and mortified at what the actual meaning of what they’d parroted was.
Pretty disturbing indicator of how a lot of the internet is. Rape Culture in action indeed.
