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How German Sounds to Other Languages
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Posted on 07/31/2013 12:34:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Es ist lustig, weil es wahr ist. Clicky
TOPICS: Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: german; language
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To: Jeff Chandler
To: Jeff Chandler
LOL I love German.
Its like the Klingon of human languages.
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posted on
07/31/2013 12:41:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Jeff Chandler
Kinda funny, but a lot of the Slavic languages sound that way.
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posted on
07/31/2013 12:42:28 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Hine klingen hoon schlargerfargerkite.
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posted on
07/31/2013 12:47:17 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: cripplecreek
Krankenwagen!! Love that.
Sounds like everyone is pissed off all the time. :)
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posted on
07/31/2013 12:53:25 PM PDT
by
jodyel
To: jodyel
“Im pupik gehapt haben! Yah?!” - Moe Hailstone’s Moronic for Moron’s speech.
It ain’t German, but WOW. What he got away with.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:05:49 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Jeff Chandler
LOL - thanks, I needed that!
To: Jeff Chandler
Krankenhaus (hospital) always strikes me as funny. I mean where else would you go when you’re cranky and sick, to the krankenhaus, of course!
To: All
if i’m not mistaken, the only ethnic people that the media feels its ok to offend.
To: Jeff Chandler
The German word for bra - kiepzemvromvloppen
The German word for Lomotil - haltzemvrompupen
German can be quite amusing.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:14:33 PM PDT
by
Gumdrop
To: Jeff Chandler
"In German, all the Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness. I consider this capitalizing of nouns a good idea, because by reason of it you are almost always able to tell a noun the minute you see it. You fall into error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig a meaning out of it. German names almost always do mean something, and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). When I was girding up my loins to doubt this, I found out that Tannenwald in this instance was a man's name.
Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print -- I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:
"Gretchen: Wilhelm, where is the turnip?
Wilhelm: She has gone to the kitchen.
Gretchen: Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?
Wilhelm: It has gone to the opera."
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- Mark Twain, The Awful German Language.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:24:16 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Jeff Chandler
My favorite word in German is Sitzpinkler , referring to one who sits to urinate, especially a male.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:26:34 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: Gumdrop
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:30:51 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Ich bin ein Stehsprechler!"
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:33:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
If I followed their rules on this, they’d wind up with a wet stall door and floor.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:39:51 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: Gumdrop
The German word for bra - kiepzemvromvloppenI thought it was titsling. After the good Dr. Titsling.
To: TheConservativeParty
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:43:39 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: TheConservativeParty
It comes from those old pre-electric hospital beds.
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:44:00 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Dr. Sivana
My favorite German word is Lickspittle
meaning a Jay Carney
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posted on
07/31/2013 1:44:28 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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