Posted on 04/05/2009 2:16:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Q Sonja Sagmeister from a little country, Austria, from Austrian Television. Mr. President, you said you came here to learn and to listen. So a quite personal question -- what did you learn from your personal talk with the European leaders? And did this change in a certain way your views on Europe and its politics?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: It's an interesting question. I had already formed relationships with many of them. ... There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing -- and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics.
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I’d bet if you asked him questions about ANYTHING regarding Capitalism we’d get an earful of propaganda answers, too... I had a (self-described) ECONOMICS TEACHER once tell me that COMPETITION CAUSED MONOPOLIES!!!
I wouldn’t doubt that if you asked Obama some of these questions it would immediately become clear that he hasn’t educated himself fully on ANY issue — merely inundating his brain with Socialist/Marxist/Communist ideas and philosophy — since CHILDHOOD. He’s a “red diaper baby” if there ever was one...
Right! A$$clown mr. bozo and A$$clown ms.bozo.
I am so proud!
This bozo your a$$clown sleeping in the white house did not attend any college. He was awarded an afirmative action degree and provided with a job!
If you can call what he did was a job!
Dan Quayle for all his faults (and I think he would have been a good president) never said that. It was a joke by RINO republican Claudine Scheiffer.
Another excellent slogan for the 2010 elections.
he’s an total idiot!!!!
But for us less sophisticated folks, we understand that German is spoken in Austria just like English is spoken in Australia.
Perhaps B. Hussein 0bama knows more than the rest of us. The joke is on us ignorant fools.
Perhaps.
I was taught German by an Austrian teacher.
The Germans (especially the Prussians) make fun of my Steiermark accent, but it's still German. (Even some Austrians, especially Viennese, will make fun of a Steiermark accent. It's more or less the equivalent of speaking Alabama Redneck. Which is still English.
There's no such language as "Austrian". There are a number of different Austrian dialects of German, but they differ a good deal from each other -- there is no one "Austrian" dialect, even.
Yep, exactly. I got an education on Spanish when I worked at a KMart in West Denver (at the Service Desk before I became a Manager there).
I had taken Spanish in High School, but never realized how different it was from the spoken language of those from Mexico. My managers would help me translate some of our announcements into Spanish, and I could still read them aloud with the proper accent and such, and had no problem READING it and getting the gist of what I read, but when trying to communicate with some of my customers I occasionally had some small problems — they could understand me, but I couldn’t understand them — even when they spoke slowly! LOL My managers had fun teasing me as well about my knowledge of “Castillian Spanish” vs. Mexican Spanish!
My mother spoke German as a child, and I have since found that some of her “good night” greetings and such were “Low German”, vs. other regions in Germany which spoke “High German”. It’s ALL German though! Only the “slang” and common phrases are different, and some accents...
Standard German, that you learn in school, is more or less the Hanoverian dialect of German (Saxony). The Hanoverians pride themselves on speaking the purest German in the world. They think I sound like a country hick.
Friend of mine who was born in Puerto Rico said that the newscaster with a Castilian accent there was just ASSUMED to be snooty and proud.
Very interesting. Thank you for all the details. I learned about the “Low” & “High” German when I went online trying to find the phrases she used to use when saying goodnight to me, and God Bless You, when I sneezed! :) I wasn’t aware of the Standard German designation at all. Thanks again for your help. :)
Did she say, “Gesundheit”, or something else?
Is that like Southerners speak Southern which is close to English, just better?
Yep, that was it. :)
I’ll phonetically spell her goodnight greeting as it sounded to me...
Gutten Noggin
I’m assuming the correct spelling is Guden Avend, or Abend?
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