Posted on 12/03/2010 3:35:10 AM PST by tioga
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”.
Götterdämmerung
Noun
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
I always thought Götterdämmerung was something a German muttered under his breath each time the TV rebroadcast an Obama speech.
8^D
I fold, I can't top that. Frohe Weihnachten!
ROTFLMAO! A+++
A+..........it’s called cut and paste! I just googled the word till I found a version with it all. ;)
could be........A+
LOL outsmarted by my own students.....not a good way to start a FRiday!
A+++ lesson to be learned there....
A+++ ain’t that the truth!
A+ .......at least it wasn’t the toilet bowl you were fishing around in. :^)
A++ I thought they LOVED him over there.......he campaigned there and got great press.....let’s send him on over.
Obama creates Götterdämmerung
Everything that he does is so God-Damned wrong
But the recent election
Foretells a correction
Hey, Barry—enjoy, ‘cause it won’t be long
Götterdämmerung America
Gotterdammerung is German for “Burn, baby! Burn!”
A+++ cannot wait to say so long to the bams and his MO....
how appropriate.........A+++
so true.....A++
the comments were very interesting too.
ich kann nur ein bischen Deutsch sprechen. and i have no idea how to do tildes and umlauts!
My German cousin Wilhelm, well my half-third cousin twice removed on my mother's side but that's a whole 'nuther story, well that old boy went and stole my catch phrase for his nightclub act in the brothel district in Munich, but it turns out that Götterdämmerung doesn't have the same ring and comedic appeal in German that "Get 'er done" has in American.
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