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I´ll be gone

Started by Settembrini, April 28, 2008, 03:58:36 AM

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Saphim

#90
May 31, 2008, 12:38:42 PM
It is never too late to pick up a new language...
 

Mike S.

#91
May 31, 2008, 01:42:13 PM
Anyone want to take bets on how soon Settembrini will be back?  I bet it will be before 12 days is up.

What do you think?

Kyle Aaron

#92
May 31, 2008, 01:46:29 PM
No bet - this time he said he'd be back.
Quote from: SettembriniI´ll be gone as of tommorrow, returning for the inevitable "I told you so" regarding 4e once in a while.
In other words, "I shall not post here unless I happen to feel like it."

Which, you know, makes him just an ordinary poster here :cool:
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One Horse Town

#93
May 31, 2008, 01:47:53 PM
Quote from: Mike S.What do you think?

That you'll be waiting in the bushes. :raise:

Ian Absentia

#94
May 31, 2008, 02:09:23 PM
Quote from: walkerpGerman actually sounds like a cool language...
...while in actuality, its vocabulary, grammar, and syntax deal almost exclusively with time tables, engineering drawings, and lists of ingredients.

!i!

Saphim

#95
May 31, 2008, 04:00:07 PM
Quote from: Ian Absentia...while in actuality, its vocabulary, grammar, and syntax deal almost exclusively with time tables, engineering drawings, and lists of ingredients.

!i!
Oi! You forgot an intricate and artistic part about our language nobody should miss!

Bureaucratic forms and requests.
 

Skyrock

#96
May 31, 2008, 04:18:33 PM
Quote from: walkerpplaying around with words and combining them and just making shit up that gets accepted and understood (the exact opposite of french)
There's another vital difference to French: We never got rid of our funny dialects. So even if you have a good grasp on German, you are screwed as soon as you get anywhere where the regional dialect is the norm. Like East Germany. Or Bavaria. Or Berlin. Or Austria. Or Swabia. Or about any place outside of Lower Saxony (where default German just happens to be the dialect).

I can only illustrate this by the fact that I got easier around in the Netherlands than in Switzerland with my native grasp on High German - and I speak even a dialect that is related to Swiss German...
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#97
May 31, 2008, 04:34:39 PM
Conversely, being default German and having lived in Swabia for three years I couldn't figure out what TF people were saying.

"TunNELL"? It's a TUNnel, morons.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

Skyrock

#98
June 01, 2008, 09:58:43 AM
Swabians are anyway the people of the Antichrist, as everyone from Baden, Berlin or any other German place apart from Swabia can confirm. (Even Bavarian Swabians dislike Swabians.)

Be happy that it wasn't "TünNELle"...
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Pierce Inverarity

#99
June 01, 2008, 03:41:48 PM
Then again, in Hamburg you get streets with names like Eddelbueddelkamp or Waddhaddeduddebarg.

Fun fact: In Cologne, otherwise a pleasant city, a Kiosk is called a Buedchen.

A Buedchen.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

Fritzs

#100
June 01, 2008, 04:54:17 PM
Holy shit, I just must visit Germany more... I live relatively close and I don't posses these interesting informations...
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#101
June 01, 2008, 04:57:03 PM
You can ask us anything, kid.
Ich habe mir schon sehr lange keine Gedanken mehr über Bleistifte gemacht.--Settembrini

walkerp

#102
June 01, 2008, 06:27:36 PM
Quote from: Pierce InverarityYou can ask us anything, kid.

Well for starters, what the fuck is a Buedchen?  (aside from being a kiosk)
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Saphim

#103
June 02, 2008, 12:39:53 AM
I think it is derived from the word "Bude" which means shack or booth. Buedchen is the belittlement to it in cologne dialect appearently.
 
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