Posted on 03/25/2018 6:02:01 AM PDT by SandRat
Will this matter when Germany becomes Germanistan?
It’s hard to improve on Mark Twain’s writings concerning the German language.
Deutschland unter Allah.
Old joke: The Germans invented their language just so they could spit at foreigners under the guise of polite conversation.
My father spoke German as his first language. I took a year of it in college. And I still don’t get it.
Years ago, I was helping a Russian learn English.
He would ask me why we would say certain things, or why another person would say things differently than I did. I told him that we speak English the way we do for the express purpose of confusing foreigners.
absolutely!!!
I honestly have no idea why anyone would study german... and i get to say that as a native speaker.
I’m with you. My heritage is predominately German and my interest in that unappealing language was limited to having my father translate the German spoken in the WW2 movies we watched on TV.
What, with Britistan & Francistan the E.U. will be the Un-istan.
I honestly have no idea why anyone would study german... and i get to say that as a native speaker. When in Germany, like in Rome! ............ I took German as a language choice for one year in college. After dealing with 4 ways to say yours, this, mine the or that I said enough. My ADHD didn’t help either. Yet when I was in Germany I spoke German like I would English and dropped the 4 different the’s,this, mine, yours, and I still was able to be understood. My General kept me close by at all times. :)
Why learn German? I worked for German companies for a total of 28 years. At the second company I didn’t tell them I spoke and understood German. It came in handy until I was caught talking to a pretty German wife at a party when her husband came up and heard us.
My favorite German word is doch. Turns a false statement around.
Those familiar with SAP software can experience the rigor of the language. The German writers made the software just as unforgiving.
A hideous language that will eventually be obsolete anyway, replaced by Arabic, or whatever their replacement population speaks.
When I was there in the Army in ‘76, you went through a week of conversational German classes. I learned more on my own and became quite proficient.
So.. mit der shlange ist die shlonged?
and having a German Secretary, who became my wife’s best friend and frequent house (US Militay QTRs), guest, my new born Daughter’s surrogate Aunt, helped us all learn.
Polish your Polish furniture with Polish polish only.
I believe that it is incorrect to refer to the Umlaut as a dieresis - although they have the same appearance.
I believe that, properly speaking, a dieresis is the term for the diacritical symbol used in English (and, e.g., French) to indicate that a vowel is spoken separately from the preceding adjacent vowel (e.g., coöperation, naïve, or Noël).
Regards,
nein, Ich bin ein soldat yetz.
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