Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: jmacusa
[...]so I said in German “Guten tag, schissekopf!’’(Good morning sh!thead!’’)

A native German-speaker would probably have also given you a double-take. The word would be "Scheißkopf," and though it would definitely be understood that you were trying to be insulting, that isn't a fixed expression in German, just as my quickly consulting my German->English dictionary and calling you a "duck-squeezer" or a "currant-crapper" wouldn't make much sense to you (an "Entenklemmer" is a tightwad, while a "Korinthenkacker" is an anal-retentive, bureaucratic, or niggling person), though I might still get beaten up for my trouble.

Regards,

30 posted on 06/18/2011 2:47:14 PM PDT by alexander_busek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


To: alexander_busek

I knew what I was saying, trust me. I know enough German.


34 posted on 06/18/2011 2:51:46 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

To: alexander_busek

I could have said ‘’arseloche’’ too, (a-hole in German).


37 posted on 06/18/2011 2:53:06 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson