Posted on 04/07/2006 10:06:16 AM PDT by Banat
Is this VW ad coming to our shores any time soon? Doubt it!
An oldie. I saw theis clip almost a year ago.
It is a good ad, to bad they don't use it here.
Still funny. LOL
That's great, sending to everyone i know
Ausgeseichnet !!!!
Aufgezeichnet?
Ausgezeichnet = excellent
Aufgezeichnet = recorded (e.g.: on tape)
As to the ad: Old, but still funny as hell.
Ausgezeichnet! Danke sehr.
I thought "aufgezeichnet" could mean "posted", my German is incredibly corroded, pre-internet and my grasp of German idiom was on my best day about what you'd expect from an American public school.
"Aufgezeichnet" can mean a number of things, but usually it refers to some kind of record. That can be a video tape, a cassette or a written file. Literally speaking, it means "to draw something on something else" (e.g. paper), which is also a possible meaning in some contexts (e.g. tattoos).
But hey, it's great that you had German in school. Especially if one considers the competition from Spanish (I think in the US something like 4 out of 5 students take Spanish as a foreign language over German, French etc. ?).
German was barely taught when I was in high school, and isn't offered in our public schools now. It makes sense, though. How much chance to use German do you get in North America compared to Spanish?
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