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To: bruinbirdman

Do Germans really still call submarines ‘U-boats’, or is this just another case of journalistic malpractice?


4 posted on 09/03/2012 8:17:21 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
"Do Germans really still call submarines ‘U-boats’"

Of course not. Auf deutsch sind sie "U-Boote".

yitbos

9 posted on 09/03/2012 8:39:36 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Windflier

Der nomenklatura U-Bost is der namen for zie Unterwassenboaten mitt der peepenscopen und der tuben shooten thingens.

See...Deutsche is easy!


15 posted on 09/03/2012 10:19:08 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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