Sort of german-related Q:
My wife recently taught me two hebrew onomotopaeic words that I think are hilarious. The word for fart is "fletz" and the word for burp is "grebtz." We both guessed that they were probably of germanic origin, but google translate offers completely different german words for burp and fart. Does anyone recognize these words as German-derived?
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)
fletz looks German/Yiddish, but it might come from Latin - isn't the Latin for fart "flattus"? Or maybe FLT is the indo-european root for flatulence that somehow made its way into Hebrew.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:00 (fourteen years ago)
Oh yeah it could have been a yiddishized version of a romance language word. Yiddish got cross-polinated with all kinds of other languages.
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)
I.e. a romance language word germanicized via yiddish.
it could also have just been a made-up yiddish word, since it's onomotopaeic
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:04 (fourteen years ago)
Think those words originated in a Don Martin cartoon
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:38 (fourteen years ago)
whoa i have the hangover gang over
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:04 (fourteen years ago)
The Katzenjammer Kids?
― Radio Boradman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:29 (fourteen years ago)
stimmt
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:32 (fourteen years ago)
2-week-delayed Starkbierreaktion?
― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
no i went last night for some research
the trip with 14 people is on sunday
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:42 (fourteen years ago)
http://i.minus.com/iwuilMSTZBfvA.JPG
there are lolzier photos but my housemate has an amazing ability to look like she's having a stroke in every photo of her drinking, so it wouldn't be fair to post them
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:48 (fourteen years ago)
lol
what the heck are you all talking about anyway?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:49 (fourteen years ago)
on this thread or in the photo?
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)
Wait maybe I need to read back more. Was there a festival or something?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)
ja http://www.nockherberg.com/starkbierfest.html
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:53 (fourteen years ago)
that's the spillover room
the main room looked like the fall of rome
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)
Can't believe I missed a chance to rave about the awesomeness of Hildegard Knef a week ago. I love you, Hildegard!
― emil.y, Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:15 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz9zFdB5_QQ
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:15 (fourteen years ago)
One of my favorite beginner German sentences is "Unser fisch ist immer frisch!"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 05:08 (fourteen years ago)
zauberlehrling
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:07 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYdNMA8wM4
― a big fat fucking fat guy in a barrel what could be better? (Eisbaer), Sunday, 29 April 2012 02:24 (fourteen years ago)
die Tausendfüßler
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:26 (fourteen years ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_%28filmmaking%29
popular (presumed to be mythical) origin theory is that MOS stands for broken-English "Mit out sound", that is, "Without sound" as a 1920s German-émigré director might have said it.
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:39 (fourteen years ago)
anmaßend
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:43 (fourteen years ago)
die Scham = shame/disgrace or vulva
― caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:36 (fourteen years ago)
However "Schamhaare", for pubic hair, is used regardless of gender.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:45 (fourteen years ago)
re: Scham. cf. 'pudenda'
― cb, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:48 (fourteen years ago)
at the moment we're covering recent german history. heute in deutschkurs habe ich den plot von das film carlos beschrieben. meine erklarung war absolutely awful.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:09 (fourteen years ago)
Überrascht bin ich irgendwie nicht.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:16 (fourteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Wankbahn_poster.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:17 (fourteen years ago)
Aw - is that as in Garmish Partenkirchen? It's so beautiful there. That's where my grandmother met my grandfather and my dad spent the early years of his life in a town called Grainau. I've been there a couple times and it's just so lovely.
I understood what you said Caek! I mean it's pretty obv even for someone without any knowledge of German but being able to read little bits just makes me wish I knew more. Fuck it. I'm gonna do an online course or something.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:45 (fourteen years ago)
also lol wank
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:46 (fourteen years ago)
it is a bavarian holiday tomorrow so i am going to wank (lol)
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:16 (fourteen years ago)
gute Fahrt zu Wank
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:32 (fourteen years ago)
change of plan. because of the weather i am not going to wank tomorrow.
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:33 (fourteen years ago)
sorry for lost wank opportunity
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:34 (fourteen years ago)
schade, kein Wank für dich!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:36 (fourteen years ago)
http://survex.com/~olly/wank/wankhaus.jpg
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
how very considerate of them ... an entire house where you can Wank!
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:43 (fourteen years ago)
We have a terrapin, or in USian English a freshwater turtle. Which is in German eine Sumpfschildkröte, or a swamp-shield-toad. Turtles are Schildkröte, shield-toads.
And apparently the German for "peanuts" as in "to work for peanuts" or "that costs peanuts" is ein paar Kröten, "a couple of toads".
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:49 (fourteen years ago)
i am starting an intensive course next week! 8 weeks, 4 evenings per week. i aced (i.e. got lucky with the questions) on the entrance test and have been placed at B1/B2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages), which is going to last all of 2 days i predict.
― caek, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:05 (thirteen years ago)
this course is high intensity in ten cities
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:46 (thirteen years ago)
i made use of that great link about doch, zwar etc. (http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/gr/mis_04.html) to do my Hausaufgabe last night
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:47 (thirteen years ago)
e, it finishes after the shops shut, so i am going to look for your gummis at the weekend
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:48 (thirteen years ago)
p.s. omg http://www.dict.cc/?s=m%C3%B6pse
"babylons (coll)"!
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:49 (thirteen years ago)
"charlies"???
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:14 (thirteen years ago)
spicy ginger babylons!
good luck with your intensive course, it sounds exciting and terrifying
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:16 (thirteen years ago)
halt die ohren steif.
― fancy cure from all alarms (☆), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:43 (thirteen years ago)