High res pic I took six years ago: 
The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!
The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits
High res pic I took six years ago:
The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!
The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits
I do not speak German, nor have I ever understood German
But why do I feel like that book is titled '“help my cat is dead”
Where did you put the photo for it to be used on a book?
I also thought that, but then I remembered my Latin:
Kaput comes from the Latin for “head”, caput. Knowing that but not knowing any German, my guess is because it looks like the cat’s head is in the basket instead of on its neck :)
Kaputt means “broken” or “non-functional” in German, like: Die Tasse von meiner Oma ist mir heruntergefallen. Nun ist sie kaputt. (I dropped my granny’s cup. It’s broken now.)
Here, it looks like the head of the cat is broken off.
Nice, double meaning :)
Probably not intentional
Likely because “kaputt” translates to “kaput” in English, and depending on your region you may have heard something like “My computer went kaput” or “my car is kaput”. Usually means the thing is non-functional; so broken, dead, etc.
Don’t you think that just comes directly from the german word? Like how I’ve found ‘no problemo’ to work in pretty much any language I didn’t speak.
Oh yes definitely. I’m not a linguist (just a fan), but I’d assume the English “kaput” was what happened as German immigrants naturalized in English-speaking countries.
That is definitely it, my great grandparents loved that word
I just added a translation of everything. I put it on reddit back then and it went viral, especially the meme somebody made out of it with the caption: “French
aristocracyroyalty in the 18th century” and they posted it on r/dankmemes (can’t find the post without an account) plus someone else crossposted to r/historymemes. As usual, my r/aww post got 10k points, while both others got about 40k upvotes. Boredpanda asked me for an interview a few weeks thereafter: https://www.boredpanda.com/optical-illusion-cat-without-head-i-spin-bubbles/Edit: Links added
It’s funny, I remember when this picture blew up!
Thanks, now I feel old. But so does Koda, so I guess that’s fair. However I still don’t have a nice beard ;-(
Not dead just broken.