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To: Dog Gone
If I had to translate that into German, especially given the apparent obsequious effect desired, I would translate: "Herr Wachtmeister (or "lieber Herr Wachtmeister"), ich bin der Herr Gott (perhaps "ich bin Gott")." "Polizist" may be the word for a policeman, but that's not how you address him. "Herr Wachtmeister" is like "Officer" in English. Nobody addresses a policeman as "Policeman" in English either.
514 posted on 10/20/2002 6:30:38 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
Yes, the word "policeman" is most odd. So is shooting a kid with a sniper rifle and leaving any sort of note on a tarot card.

I would not be surprised to eventually learn that our sniper is leaving a note everywhere now. We wouldn't have learned about this one, except for the fact that Moose needed to communicate to the sniper about it.

I think there's far more going on than we realize.

539 posted on 10/20/2002 6:39:24 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: aristeides
"If I had to translate that into German, especially given the apparent obsequious effect desired, I would translate: "Herr Wachtmeister (or "lieber Herr Wachtmeister"), ich bin der Herr Gott (perhaps "ich bin Gott")." "Polizist" may be the word for a policeman, but that's not how you address him. "Herr Wachtmeister" is like "Officer" in English. Nobody addresses a policeman as "Policeman" in English either. "

I wonder how a policeman is addressed in the Middle East ? Maybe neither German or English is the native tongue of the shooter. We know for a fact that Germany is one of the countries with large and active terrorists cell.

763 posted on 10/20/2002 8:12:22 PM PDT by Darlin'
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To: aristeides
Nobody addresses a policeman as "Policeman" in English either.

...except perhaps a child.

984 posted on 10/21/2002 4:06:36 AM PDT by Indie
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