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News Conference By President Obama (Thinks Austrian is a language!!!)
Talking Points Memo/White House ^
| April 3
| Obama
Posted on 04/05/2009 2:16:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: adorno
I’d bet if you asked him questions about ANYTHING regarding Capitalism we’d get an earful of propaganda answers, too... I had a (self-described) ECONOMICS TEACHER once tell me that COMPETITION CAUSED MONOPOLIES!!!
I wouldn’t doubt that if you asked Obama some of these questions it would immediately become clear that he hasn’t educated himself fully on ANY issue — merely inundating his brain with Socialist/Marxist/Communist ideas and philosophy — since CHILDHOOD. He’s a “red diaper baby” if there ever was one...
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:36:28 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
To: austingirl
Right! A$$clown mr. bozo and A$$clown ms.bozo.
I am so proud!
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:38:18 PM PDT
by
tiger63
To: SonOfPyrodex
This bozo your a$$clown sleeping in the white house did not attend any college. He was awarded an afirmative action degree and provided with a job!
If you can call what he did was a job!
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:42:42 PM PDT
by
tiger63
To: PghBaldy
Obama is an ignorant urban savage and punk-ass South Side wharf thug.
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:44:47 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(FUBO. Just....................FUBO.)
To: N. Theknow
Dan Quayle for all his faults (and I think he would have been a good president) never said that. It was a joke by RINO republican Claudine Scheiffer.
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:45:33 PM PDT
by
sharkhawk
(Here come the Hawks)
To: Pining_4_TX
President Clueless strikes again!Another excellent slogan for the 2010 elections.
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:49:16 PM PDT
by
jetson
To: PghBaldy
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posted on
04/05/2009 4:54:55 PM PDT
by
angelcindy
("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
To: CindyDawg
American is considered a standard dialect of the English language as Austrian is considered a standard dialect of the German language. The common language we speak in America, Britain and Australia is the English language, as I understand it at least. I concede that linguists consider many other factors and they don't necessarily agree on the criteria that determines what is language and what is a dialect.
But for us less sophisticated folks, we understand that German is spoken in Austria just like English is spoken in Australia.
Perhaps B. Hussein 0bama knows more than the rest of us. The joke is on us ignorant fools.
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posted on
04/05/2009 5:21:12 PM PDT
by
Jagdgewehr
(One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard. One faithful harp shall praise thee.)
To: Jagdgewehr
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posted on
04/05/2009 5:32:35 PM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
To: LibertyRocks
And if you speak Mexican Spanish in Spain, they will make fun of you (my daughter discovered that!) but it's still Spanish.
I was taught German by an Austrian teacher.
The Germans (especially the Prussians) make fun of my Steiermark accent, but it's still German. (Even some Austrians, especially Viennese, will make fun of a Steiermark accent. It's more or less the equivalent of speaking Alabama Redneck. Which is still English.
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posted on
04/05/2009 5:41:01 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: huck von finn
Some Obama supporter must have rushed THAT into wiki. "Probably" understand? Ridiculous!
There's no such language as "Austrian". There are a number of different Austrian dialects of German, but they differ a good deal from each other -- there is no one "Austrian" dialect, even.
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posted on
04/05/2009 5:42:37 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
Yep, exactly. I got an education on Spanish when I worked at a KMart in West Denver (at the Service Desk before I became a Manager there).
I had taken Spanish in High School, but never realized how different it was from the spoken language of those from Mexico. My managers would help me translate some of our announcements into Spanish, and I could still read them aloud with the proper accent and such, and had no problem READING it and getting the gist of what I read, but when trying to communicate with some of my customers I occasionally had some small problems — they could understand me, but I couldn’t understand them — even when they spoke slowly! LOL My managers had fun teasing me as well about my knowledge of “Castillian Spanish” vs. Mexican Spanish!
My mother spoke German as a child, and I have since found that some of her “good night” greetings and such were “Low German”, vs. other regions in Germany which spoke “High German”. It’s ALL German though! Only the “slang” and common phrases are different, and some accents...
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posted on
04/05/2009 5:50:19 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
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To: LibertyRocks
Yep, "Low German" is not "low" or vulgar, but the dialects of German spoken in the area bordering the Low Countries (i.e. Netherlands). Plattdeutsch - meaning literally 'flat'/'plains' German. It shades over into Dutch, and if you read it out loud is easier for an English speaker to understand than High German. Grimm's Fairy Tales in the original are full of Plattdeutsch. "Hochdeutsch" really means the mountain and upland regions of Southern Germany, which is the German that I learned, but a rather isolated and rural variant thereof.
Standard German, that you learn in school, is more or less the Hanoverian dialect of German (Saxony). The Hanoverians pride themselves on speaking the purest German in the world. They think I sound like a country hick.
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:04:05 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: LibertyRocks
Oh, yeah - I forgot to mention, if you speak Castilian in Mexico they think you're stuck up (sort of like people used to think of somebody with an English accent).
Friend of mine who was born in Puerto Rico said that the newscaster with a Castilian accent there was just ASSUMED to be snooty and proud.
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:05:45 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
Very interesting. Thank you for all the details. I learned about the “Low” & “High” German when I went online trying to find the phrases she used to use when saying goodnight to me, and God Bless You, when I sneezed! :) I wasn’t aware of the Standard German designation at all. Thanks again for your help. :)
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:10:03 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
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To: LibertyRocks
Did she say, “Gesundheit”, or something else?
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:13:50 PM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: huck von finn
Austrian people speak Austrian, which is very close to German. Is that like Southerners speak Southern which is close to English, just better?
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:17:17 PM PDT
by
Protect the Bill of Rights
(The Media censored ODUMBA'S DEEP BOW to the King of Saudi Arabia. WHY?????)
To: AnAmericanMother
Yep, that was it. :)
I’ll phonetically spell her goodnight greeting as it sounded to me...
Gutten Noggin
I’m assuming the correct spelling is Guden Avend, or Abend?
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posted on
04/05/2009 6:19:49 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
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