KMFDM translation
Chris Brooks
answer. It says in the jacket for 'What Do You Know, Deutschland?' that
KMFDM means "Kein Mehrheit für die Mitleid," translated as "No pity for the
majority." However, that phrase actually means "No majority for the pity,"
which doesn't make much sense. I'm sure germanophones have brought this up
before; will an enlightened person please give me an explanation behind
this?
Vielen Dank im Voraus,
Chris
Crudbreeder
As it says on the KMFDM website:
"KMFDM is an acronym for :
KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID
(if you, the reader, know german you'll understand that that doesn't
really mean anything. It is merely a play on words...)"
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--obsidia--
>Chris Brooks wrote:
>>
>> I've always wondered about something, but have never gotten a straight
>> answer. It says in the jacket for 'What Do You Know, Deutschland?' that
>> KMFDM means "Kein Mehrheit für die Mitleid," translated as "No pity for the
>> majority." However, that phrase actually means "No majority for the pity,"
>> which doesn't make much sense. I'm sure germanophones have brought this up
>> before; will an enlightened person please give me an explanation behind
>> this?
>
>As it says on the KMFDM website:
>
>"KMFDM is an acronym for :
>KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID
>(if you, the reader, know german you'll understand that that doesn't
>really mean anything. It is merely a play on words...)"
>
Listen to 'Megalomaniac' also. They reverse it. Reversing....a foreshadowing of
what was to come?
--obsidia--
np: pig v. kmfdm - sin, sex, and salvation
Chris Brooks
"Crudbreeder" <crudb...@psynet.net> wrote in message
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> Chris Brooks wrote:
> >
> > I've always wondered about something, but have never gotten a straight
> > answer. It says in the jacket for 'What Do You Know, Deutschland?' that
> > KMFDM means "Kein Mehrheit für die Mitleid," translated as "No pity for
the
> > majority." However, that phrase actually means "No majority for the
pity,"
> > which doesn't make much sense. I'm sure germanophones have brought this
up
> > before; will an enlightened person please give me an explanation behind
> > this?
>
> As it says on the KMFDM website:
>
> "KMFDM is an acronym for :
> KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID
> (if you, the reader, know german you'll understand that that doesn't
> really mean anything. It is merely a play on words...)"
I just wrote that. That phrases means "No majority for the pity." That may
be a play on words, but it still doesn't explain why the definition is
garbled on the What Do You Know, Deutschland? album.
Chris
Chris Brooks
foreshadowing of
> what was to come?
>
> --obsidia--
> np: pig v. kmfdm - sin, sex, and salvation
The fact that they switched the word order (and made the phrase make sense)
is even more confusing.
Chris
--obsidia--
::shrug::
I just listen to the pretty sounds.
Crudbreeder
The same reason as always, Sascha loves to play with our heads ;)
And it isn't garbled, KMFDM does stand for "Kein Mehrheit Für Die
Mitleid"
In some interview (or maybe it was a post in here), Sascha said
something to the effect of: "Yes, Kein mitleid für die mehrheit would be
proper German, but that has nothing to do with it"
Brett Banditelli
uhmm yeh, it makes existence more fun
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the fact that you seriously ponder such jokesters as kmfdm is even more
confusing.
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Josh Hammonds
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> the fact that you seriously ponder such jokesters as kmfdm is even more
> confusing.
Hey, a good bit of KMFDM's material deserves a serious bit of ponderance.
Josh Hammonds
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dj_risq - t.m.o.s.
> > confusing.
>
> Hey, a good bit of KMFDM's material deserves a serious bit of ponderance.
true, but this is sooooo not one of the things that does deserve ponderance.
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cubeblue
The play on words is in fact the garbling.. the reversal of meaning.
Sascha has mentioned in some interview, I don't remember where
exactly, that it was something they did to be more 'Dada' at the
time.. since KMFDM was originally a sort of dada-ist art troupe.
cubeblue
Yes, take for example Itchy-Bitchy.
Crudbreeder
>
> "Josh Hammonds" <jos...@aol.com> wrote in message news:<9jiffj$ntqg2$1...@ID-62018.news.dfncis.de>...
> > dj_risq - t.m.o.s. <tec...@homail.com> wrote in message
> > news:9jf746$ncstt$1...@ID-51991.news.dfncis.de...
> > > the fact that you seriously ponder such jokesters as kmfdm is even more
> > > confusing.
> >
> > Hey, a good bit of KMFDM's material deserves a serious bit of ponderance.
> >
>
Or Me I Funk
Piped-Out Little Chinese Boy
n8
>I think that Sascha's just one of them fake Germans.
yeah, but while you think that, we KNOW that you are an annoyance who trolls
about and doesn't quote whatever you are trying to troll.
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>>
>>I think that Sascha's just one of them fake Germans.
>
>yeah, but while you think that, we KNOW that you are an annoyance who trolls
>about and doesn't quote whatever you are trying to troll.
>
Why people use WebTV is a mystery to me.
--obsidia--
np: nothing
implode
> Why people use WebTV is a mystery to me.
Maybe because they can't afford a computer, or don't know how to use
one.
--
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n8
>> Why people use WebTV is a mystery to me.
>
>Maybe because they can't afford a computer, or don't know how to use
>one.
>--
>Matt
I actually haven't seen a webTV post in years...anyone recall back
in....uh...98 I think, when we had a hugeass webTV war or somethin? was that
this group?
On a side note, how can I find my first posting date. I know it was early 97,
but google only goes back to something I KNOW wasn't my first post.
np: pig - the book of tequila
meatpimp
) wrote:
>
>I actually haven't seen a webTV post in years...anyone recall back
>in....uh...98 I think, when we had a hugeass webTV war or somethin? was that
>this group?
> On a side note, how can I find my first posting date. I know it was early 97,
>but google only goes back to something I KNOW wasn't my first post.
>
No way to, right now... google bought Deja's archives and were
supposed to put them back up online, but they haven't yet... anyone
know the status?
mp
Josh Hammonds
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> >I actually haven't seen a webTV post in years...anyone recall back
> >in....uh...98 I think, when we had a hugeass webTV war or somethin? was
that
> >this group?
> > On a side note, how can I find my first posting date. I know it was
early 97,
> >but google only goes back to something I KNOW wasn't my first post.
> >
>
> No way to, right now... google bought Deja's archives and were
> supposed to put them back up online, but they haven't yet... anyone
> know the status?
Last time I checked you could search google back through '95.
Pinhead the Cenobite
wrote:
Some mysteries are better left unsolved. Why, if you ever found out
why some people use WebTV, you may go raving starkers, endangering all
those around you, stranger and loved one alike, as you foam at the
mouth, ranting and raving (for the benefit of the camera crews),
sticking 16-inch stainless steel needles into the eyes of unsuspecting
passers-by, gibbering and gabbering incoherently, with the occassional
thatrical giggle, accompanied by a thin string of spittle hanging from
your lower lip (great theatrics!).
Later, of course, while you're serving time in the rubber room, with
the jacket that wraps around the back and purple Crayolas between your
toes, residuals pour in from all the "RealTV" clones cashing in on
your eccentricities. Soon you are released, having been
"rehabilitated", with a large perscription of Atavan(tm) and Dilaudids
in your pocket, and decide to back the next KMFDM album based on your
adventures trapped between realities. The album, "Schizo", goes
multi-platinum and you find both yourself and KMFDM under the scrutiny
of world recognition, the pressure builds. In a "rap session" with
Sascha and the band, you all decide it would be best for you to
experience another psychotic episode, providing more fodder for the
rich fields of imagination and creativity, in order to produce the
next KMFDM album...
Repeat as necessary... Of course, this is all just theory...
--
"When Kevin woke up, he found himself on a table in the morgue.
He was stripped naked and a strange man was standing over him
with a knife, just like his first night in juvinile detention."
Pinhead the Cenobite
) wrote:
>>Maybe because they can't afford a computer, or don't know how to use
>>one.
>>--
>>Matt
>
>I actually haven't seen a webTV post in years...anyone recall back
>in....uh...98 I think, when we had a hugeass webTV war or somethin? was that
>this group?
Er.. I remember participating in the great "alt.tasteless vs. WebTv
idjits" in about '99 or so.... It may have seeped over here to some
extent. After all, most WebTV'ers are kinda like diarrhoea, in that
they can't seem to keep their shit all in one place...
--obsidia--
um....well then...cool? uh...YOU ARE PAIN!!!
--obsidia--
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