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This is so cool. A little context:
In germany we sometimes try to be funny (in a nice way - not making fun of native speakers but more of ourselves not being able to translate something), when we translate german phrases to english word-by-word ignoring english grammar resulting in total nonsense. The closest comparable native speaker thing to do I can think of is "I can has cheezburger"[1]
For example: A german artist / comedian named Helge Schneider took the german phrase
which would really translate in but word by word it goes which must be total nonsense to native speakers. He even took it a little further and replaced break (brechen) with brake (bremsen) to make it even more nonsense - probably only germans can really understand what's really meant [2].Your phrase is pretty similar for german people (but more understandable to native speakers) - "das Internet geht kaputt" => "the internet will break", but word by word it is:
Thank you for responding, I did not know that this was a thing - probably interesting for linguists how this came back to native speakers.1: https://icanhas.cheezburger.com/
2: https://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000KLRUNY/