Posted on 03/21/2010 2:58:05 PM PDT by dennisw
Since I left Germany back in 1962, my German has deteriorated to the basics. Ein flaschen bier, bitter. Vas ist los, fraulien? and other such useful phrases.
Dead on.
Well, the literal “high school” was a workaround. Probably should have just run it together and capitalized it as the Germans are wont to do, or used their own term.
I think that’s why people think German is hard, those impossibly long words. They’re just a bunch of words shoved together to create a new one.
Beyond that, it’s not at all hard to read ... verb on the end is the only major difference. Speaking it can be another matter, though. It’s easy to speak it very badly.
I like heating and air conditioning, but I like the exemption on taxes and socialized health care.
Do Mennonites also get the exemption? They have some electricity and even cars.
Germans don't have a high school. It's called Gymnasium. I sometimes us "hoch schule" and the Germans I use it on understand.
Speaking it can be another matter, though. It’s easy to speak it very badly.
I have had several people from Germany ask me where I am from in Germany. I tell them that "Ich war im Chicago geboren" and they are amazed at how good a German accent I use. It just came naturally to me.
The hardest part for me is listening to it. I don't get to practice listening enough.
Again.. Time form a new “Amish” sect..
I’ve had three years of college level German, did a summer session at Trier, and they thought I was Bayern.
Say goodbye to the zipper if you go Amish Dennis.
They are moving to Central NY by the droves. Their women are also very hard workers. A neighbor’s house burned and the Amish put his roof on. He’s in his 70’s and had no insurance. One of them worked with him in this harsh winter. Wish other Chrisians had.
Vielen dank, mein guten Mann! Schlafen Sie im sicherheit und Frieden.
Auf Bayern. Bayerische. Whatever, lol. Out of practice.
LOL Maybe the Germans are easily fooled.
Have you had to speak to people from Schwabia. They speak Schwabisch and it's like listening to someone talk with a mouth of marbles. (Joe Namath speaking German)
If you're Amish, you have to grow it, mow it and stack it by hand.
No expense, just back breaking hard labor.
THERE ARE NO DUTCH IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!
There are numerous DEUTSCH though!
I too, am descended from the Deutscher there.
There IS a pentecostal revival going on amongst some of their communities. You just don’t hear about it.
Got info on them?
Some of the older women are hefty...
Yes, I have, LOL. They’re moving up here, LOL.
Can I be first in line to get all your stuff?
I’m sure that I have. I tried to visit the places from where the German speaking part of my ancestry came, during my short time there. Worms in modern day Germany, Immesheim and Albisheim near Strasbourg in modern day Alsace, France.
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