― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Stan oughta be ashamed of himself. I ain't translating THAT.
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― stop moving. (cis), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― nazi bikini (harbl), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 July 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
No, the "e" in "freund" is part of the vowel combination "eu", which is always pronounced the same say.
Eliminating the Sz (sorry, I don't know the html code for it), C/D?
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Hääyöaie!
Every teach-yrself-Finnish tape I've ever listened to has had two speakers, one of whom observes the difference between a and ä described in the text of the book and one of whom either says them the same or does the umlaut a bit German. HATE. Plus not aspirating my consonants = no chance, and making the difference between single and doubled letters = only if I speak at three words per minute.
Then I listen to Finnish music and they seem to pronounce a and ä about the same, but it's ok for them because they are on Trendy Fonal Records. Even the ones who aren't.
Do real Germans say glückschmerz? That is a good word. I need to learn German.
― Rebecca (reb), Thursday, 27 July 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
mandarin?
Not really! A single character can be pronounced with different inflections depending on the inflection of the character immediately following it.
― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 27 July 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― stop moving. (cis), Thursday, 27 July 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― patita (patita), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Thursday, 27 July 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Dingsbums (thingummybob)
Genau (popular one!)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 27 July 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― That Feymous Biting Guy (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― de latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Falls man in einem Buch so ein Wort drük-ken will, muss man die Zeilenenden beobachten.
Or is that obsolete now?
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Strumpfhosen
Spachtelmasse
My favourite poetic object name in German is Gluebirne, the word for lightbulb which literally translates as glowing pear.
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Christ my German is terrible despite living in a German speaking country for 6 years.....
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Ich lerne deutsch.http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,9572,00.html
Dieser kurs ist gut!
Mein lieblingswort ist "lieblingswort."
(I can't say much else -- it's only my third day).
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Ich habe durchfall
― snoball, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
so I'm basically challenging myself to learn as much German as possible in the three weeks before my trip. I will try to form some sentences from memory. Forgive my spelling and grammar.
Ich heiße Josh. Ich bin neunundswanzig jahre alt. Ich wohne in Brooklyn. Ich bin verheiratet, aber Ich habe keinen kinder. Englisch ist meine muttersprache. Sprechen sie englisch?
Das ist mein hund. Es heißen Struppi.
Heute ist Mittwoch. Morgen ist Donnerstag. Gestern war Dienstag.
Ich esse fleisch und bohnen. Ist es frisch? Ach, ja!
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
OK your dog's name is adorable.
Spelling grammar won't matter much as a tourist and if doing this well after only 4 days is a pretty good sign!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not really my dog's name. It's the name of the dog in the german program I'm using, but I want to get a terrier and name it that.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I get really obsessive about things like this for short periods of time. I've been reading my german book on the subway and in the bathroom every chance I get, and I use the program after my wife goes to bed.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My favourite German word is Gefährten which according to google translate thingy means fellowship.
― The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
I like how they join a load of words together to make huge nouns so you can usually work it out from a literal translation of each segment. German engineering and technical dictionaries are great for huge words that essentially mean "join all the bits together and you've got one of these."― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:12 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark
That is my favorite part about German too.
Ken picked "handschuhe" as his favorite word and it's one of mine too. HAND SHOES!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Hurting - you should totally get a dog and name it Struppi - it's amazing.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I just learned that stricken means to knit. I think that's funny.
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not 100% certain that it still is but for a long time the longest German word was Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän which means something like "the hat of a steamboat captain who sails on the Danube River". Yes, there was actually a word for that.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
nurse is krankenschwester. This whole language is hilarious. How do germans not laugh constantly as they talk to each other?
― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't think there's a proper Germany thread bar this one. Making my way through this rn.
https://jewishcurrents.org/bad-memory-2
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 July 2023 09:37 (ten months ago) link
Phantombildzeichner
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:18 (seven months ago) link
Person who sketches identikit portraits (Phantombilder)
― Kizza Me on the Bus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 September 2023 15:20 (seven months ago) link