Posted on 08/26/2007 2:04:22 PM PDT by Dysart
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thanks for the link, but it doesn’t work for me. Is the festival in the Hill Country?
Now, if someone could just teach people not to call it “New Brownsville.” Drives me nutzo.
My father is descended from a group of Germans who came from the Volga River in Russia in the late 1800s. In addition to English he spoke a dialect of German called Swabish. During WW II he was in high school and the feds came through and made all of the Roman Catholic nuns start teaching the kids in English. For the most part he had no accent but the kitchen “sink” was always called the “zink”.
Squirrel
die Eichkatze —Texas German
das Eichhörnchen — European German
Oarchskatzle - Bayern.
Oarchskaettzleschwarf - Austrian.
German changes every time you cross a hill. I had some ass tell me I can’t speak german, a few months ago, in Germany.
(I am a certified German Linguist)
How would one say, “it’s all Bush’s fault,” in German?
*Far a-cross the blue water
Lives an old German’s daughter,
By the banks of the old river Rhine ...
Where I loved her and left her,
But I can’t forget her -
I miss my pretty Fraulein.
Fraulein, Fraulein
Walk down by the river,
Each night when the stars start to shine.
By the same stars above you,
I swear that I love you ...
You are my pretty Fraulein.
In my moments of glory,
A face comes before me ...
The face of a girl I left behind.
I loved her and left her,
But I can’t forget her ...
I miss my pretty Fraulein.
Fraulein, Fraulein
Walk down by the river,
Each night when the stars start to shine.
By the same stars above you,
I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein ... *
“Der Bush is daran schuld.”
Achtung, the best of the wurst! I had a friend who got a ticket there for WWI. He was “walking while intoxicated” during Wurstfest. True story.
Landa Park is where I was talking the other day in a post about seeing enormous concrete picnic tables up in the tops of trees after a bad flood.
Where is Wurstfest? (The link doesn’t work)
One German restaurant I love to revisit is The Altdorf in Fredericksburg. I have the recipe for their hot potato salad...DELICIOUS~!!!
Have you tried Luchenbach too?
I spent a lot of time many years ago all through the little towns from about Bellville, New Ulm, La Grange, Fayetteville, and on west.
They still had (and may still have) turne vereins where people held dances on the weekends - whole families came, babies and great-grandparents - and the only music on the little country radio stations was polka music.
I also spent a lot of time in New Braunfels, Groene, Fredericksburg, Luckenbach, and points west. Stopping to eat the local sausage at every smokehouse we encountered, too. There’s a sausage for every German dialect, and then some!
“New Brownsville” lol.
Aka “New Braunfels,” named for the Duke of Braunfels who owned all the land between there and Houston (exaggerating a little here) a couple of hundred years ago. He started a lot of the settlements, bringing people over from the Old Country - I think he was Bavarian, but could be wrong about that.
http://www.oktoberfestinfbg.com/
It’s not long until Oktoberfest in Fredericksburg!
October 5 - 6 - 7
Even though I was born in Houston I’ve only been back in Texas(DFW area) for just over twelve years and I’ve never even visited the Hill Country so, no, I haven’t tried Luchenbach. I have much exploring to do someday when I have the opportunity.
I believe Castroville was their destination...
A German Prince brought his people with him, and founded New Braunfels. Is there a Braunfels region of Germany? On an interesting note, the Prince couldn’t take the weather and went home, and left the people here.
I’ve read that during WW1 and again in WW2 many Germans named Mueller changed their names to Miller due to harassment of Germans.
doesn’t anyone know that the only culture worth saving is hispanic. Germans? they’ve got to be kidding. sarc/
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