The German language

I often feel this strange temptation to start all my sentences "naja", regardless of meaning

Entirely too many actual German people do the same thing. A cheesy tic. Worst German verbal tic I ever heard was a dude who began EVERY sentence with "im Grunde genommen" (which is basically "basically".)

Haha, I also had that same temptation. And the one to start any sentence I felt like with "aber."

"doch" is an awesome word.

"naja" lol yeah my family uses that one A LOT.

"also" = another "falscher Freund" for english speakers.

or, my German teacher's favorite corny joke: beware Germans bearing Gift.

In Norwegian, "gift" means both "poison" and "married," since both of these have to do with something being given.

ha I read james redd's post and was about to say "Doesn't "Gift" mean poison in German too? but then finally got Eisbaer's teacher's joke which went over my head yesterday.

The German for dowry is "Mitgift". The words for poison and for giving have a common root in Germanic languages. Dunno exactly how that is.

"lake" is der See(m), and "sea" is die See(f).
why??

http://ia600807.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/32/items/olcovers662/olcovers662-L.zip&file=6623696-L.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9v2XBNVRtw

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?

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.

Oh yeah it could have been a yiddishized version of a romance language word. Yiddish got cross-polinated with all kinds of other languages.

I.e. a romance language word germanicized via yiddish.

it could also have just been a made-up yiddish word, since it's onomotopaeic

Think those words originated in a Don Martin cartoon

whoa i have the hangover gang over

The Katzenjammer Kids?

stimmt

2-week-delayed Starkbierreaktion?

no i went last night for some research

the trip with 14 people is on sunday

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

lol

what the heck are you all talking about anyway?

on this thread or in the photo?

Wait maybe I need to read back more. Was there a festival or something?

ja http://www.nockherberg.com/starkbierfest.html

that's the spillover room

the main room looked like the fall of rome

Can't believe I missed a chance to rave about the awesomeness of Hildegard Knef a week ago. I love you, Hildegard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz9zFdB5_QQ

One of my favorite beginner German sentences is "Unser fisch ist immer frisch!"

zauberlehrling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYdNMA8wM4

die Tausendfüßler

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.

anmaßend

die Scham = shame/disgrace or vulva

However "Schamhaare", for pubic hair, is used regardless of gender.

re: Scham. cf. 'pudenda'

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.

Überrascht bin ich irgendwie nicht.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Wankbahn_poster.jpg

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.

also lol wank

it is a bavarian holiday tomorrow so i am going to wank (lol)

gute Fahrt zu Wank

change of plan. because of the weather i am not going to wank tomorrow.

sorry for lost wank opportunity