Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
erilar
Hatunen <hat...@cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:04:01 +0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
> >I know there are native German speakers on these newsgroups. Have any
> >of you ever heard Schwarzenegger speak German? Thanks.
>
> Strictly speaking, of course, it's Austrian.
I had no trouble understanding it when I was there, and they all
understood my German with no difficulty 8-)
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
Thomas Prufer
>I had no trouble understanding it when I was there, and they all
>understood my German with no difficulty 8-)
Ha! They were being polite.
Plenty of words differ in German (even the Bavarian German just north of the
Alps) and Austrian: Paradeiser, Karfiol, Ribisl, Deka, Germ, Plafond, Pl�mo,
Faschierte, to name eight. Bavarian is also rich in French.derived words, but
has less of the Hungarian ones.
Thomas Prufer
erilar
Thomas Prufer <prufer...@mnet-online.de.invalid> wrote:
Oh, Austrians are MUCH easier to understand than Bavarians!! 8-)
Hatunen
I presume that applies only if you are not actually Austrian?
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Thomas Prufer
>Oh, Austrians are MUCH easier to understand than Bavarians!! 8-)
That's just because Bavarians are much grouchier, and deliberately talk
gibberish at forriners. But the most disliked forriners are the German
forriners. Forriners from far away is usually all right, sort of, also because
there's hope they'll go back home presently.
Thomas Prufer
erilar
Thomas Prufer <prufer...@mnet-online.de.invalid> wrote:
Aha! Then speaking fluent non-Bavarian German would be a Bad Move down
there 8-)
Thomas Prufer
>Aha! Then speaking fluent non-Bavarian German would be a Bad Move down
>there 8-)
Yes, at least sometimes, and for some values of non-Bavarian German.
Someone (a German) told me that they stopped to ask directions of a local in
Munich. The answer was to go back home if he didn't know where the heck he
wanted to go.
(It's either a friend-of-a-friend story, or the poor fellow had an unfortunate
accent.)
Thomas Prufer
Keith F. Lynch
> Someone (a German) told me that they stopped to ask directions of a
> local in Munich. The answer was to go back home if he didn't know
> where the heck he wanted to go.
If he was asking directions, he obviously knew where he wanted to go.
He just didn't know how to get there.
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Judy R. Johnson
> Thomas Prufer <prufer...@mnet-online.de> wrote:
>> Someone (a German) told me that they stopped to ask directions of a
>> local in Munich. The answer was to go back home if he didn't know
>> where the heck he wanted to go.
>
> If he was asking directions, he obviously knew where he wanted to go.
> He just didn't know how to get there.
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NEW -- JRJ>I once got very lost in Germany, driving from Vienna to
Geneva; believe it was in Munich. It seems that the Germans (at least
about 15 years ago; dunno about now) won't put foreign towns on their
highway signs. So instead of saying "Basel" or "Bern" on a major
highway sign, they put the name of the last little German border town
that nobody except the locals ever heard of. And when I tried to ask,
politely, everybody either couldn't understand me or pretended they
didn't know. Kinda resent that, you know?
Maybe they think you'll have to stay overnight and spend money that will
help local businesses. I fooled 'em; I slept in the car. And then the
next morning I found a school kid who was pleased to show off her
English and wasn't in on the joke about misleading tourists.
Entwife Judy
Who now recalls that some of the people I asked seemed vaguely ashamed.