How German Sounds to Other Languages

1 posted on 07/31/2013 12:34:50 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler

To: Jeff Chandler

2 posted on 07/31/2013 12:35:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55

To: Jeff Chandler

LOL I love German.

Its like the Klingon of human languages.

3 posted on 07/31/2013 12:41:45 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

To: Jeff Chandler

Kinda funny, but a lot of the Slavic languages sound that way.

4 posted on 07/31/2013 12:42:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)

To: Jeff Chandler

Hine klingen hoon schlargerfargerkite.

5 posted on 07/31/2013 12:47:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)

To: cripplecreek

Krankenwagen!! Love that.

Sounds like everyone is pissed off all the time. :)

6 posted on 07/31/2013 12:53:25 PM PDT by jodyel

“Im pupik gehapt haben! Yah?!” - Moe Hailstone’s Moronic for Moron’s speech.

It ain’t German, but WOW. What he got away with.

7 posted on 07/31/2013 1:05:49 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)

To: Jeff Chandler

LOL - thanks, I needed that!

8 posted on 07/31/2013 1:08:53 PM PDT by taxcontrol

To: Jeff Chandler

Krankenhaus (hospital) always strikes me as funny. I mean where else would you go when you’re cranky and sick, to the krankenhaus, of course!

9 posted on 07/31/2013 1:10:58 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Happy, happy,happy." Phil Robertson)

if i’m not mistaken, the only ethnic people that the media feels its ok to offend.

10 posted on 07/31/2013 1:14:03 PM PDT by willywill

To: Jeff Chandler

The German word for bra - kiepzemvromvloppen

The German word for Lomotil - haltzemvrompupen

German can be quite amusing.

11 posted on 07/31/2013 1:14:33 PM PDT by Gumdrop

To: Jeff Chandler

"In German, all the Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness. I consider this capitalizing of nouns a good idea, because by reason of it you are almost always able to tell a noun the minute you see it. You fall into error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig a meaning out of it. German names almost always do mean something, and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). When I was girding up my loins to doubt this, I found out that Tannenwald in this instance was a man's name.

Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print -- I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

"Gretchen: Wilhelm, where is the turnip?
Wilhelm: She has gone to the kitchen.
Gretchen: Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?
Wilhelm: It has gone to the opera."

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- Mark Twain, The Awful German Language.

12 posted on 07/31/2013 1:24:16 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)

To: Jeff Chandler

My favorite word in German is Sitzpinkler , referring to one who sits to urinate, especially a male.

13 posted on 07/31/2013 1:26:34 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)

14 posted on 07/31/2013 1:30:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)

Ich bin ein Stehsprechler!"

15 posted on 07/31/2013 1:33:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)

If I followed their rules on this, they’d wind up with a wet stall door and floor.

16 posted on 07/31/2013 1:39:51 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)

The German word for bra - kiepzemvromvloppen

I thought it was titsling. After the good Dr. Titsling.

17 posted on 07/31/2013 1:42:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan

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18 posted on 07/31/2013 1:43:39 PM PDT by GeronL

To: TheConservativeParty

It comes from those old pre-electric hospital beds.

19 posted on 07/31/2013 1:44:00 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)

My favorite German word is Lickspittle

meaning a Jay Carney

20 posted on 07/31/2013 1:44:28 PM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)

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