That page looks useful, thanks!
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― caek, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that page has the best discussion of those that I've seen. Very helpful!
― Pataphysician, Friday, 9 March 2012 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
That page is awesome!!!
My cousin uses "Doch!" all the time.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 12 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
doch!
― caek, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
I often feel this strange temptation to start all my sentences "naja", regardless of meaning
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
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".)
― Three Word Username, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, I also had that same temptation. And the one to start any sentence I felt like with "aber."
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
"doch" is an awesome word.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
"naja" lol yeah my family uses that one A LOT.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
"also" = another "falscher Freund" for english speakers.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
"lake" is der See(m), and "sea" is die See(f).why??
― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://ia600807.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/32/items/olcovers662/olcovers662-L.zip&file=6623696-L.jpg
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― the prurient pinterest (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
whoa i have the hangover gang over
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Katzenjammer Kids?
― Radio Boradman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
stimmt
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
2-week-delayed Starkbierreaktion?
― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
no i went last night for some research
the trip with 14 people is on sunday
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
lol
what the heck are you all talking about anyway?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
on this thread or in the photo?
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Wait maybe I need to read back more. Was there a festival or something?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
ja http://www.nockherberg.com/starkbierfest.html
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
that's the spillover room
the main room looked like the fall of rome
― caek, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz9zFdB5_QQ
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
zauberlehrling
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
die Tausendfüßler
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
anmaßend
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Saturday, 5 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
die Scham = shame/disgrace or vulva
― caek, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
However "Schamhaare", for pubic hair, is used regardless of gender.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
re: Scham. cf. 'pudenda'
― cb, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Überrascht bin ich irgendwie nicht.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Wankbahn_poster.jpg
― caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link