F-Body Europe

> GERMAN FOR BEGINNERS...
> German is a relatively easy language. If you know Latin you're used to
> declensions and can learn German without great difficulty. That's what
> German teachers tell you at the first lesson. Then you start studying
> the der, die, das, den... and they tell you that everything follows a
> logical order.
> So it's easy. And to prove it, let's look at an example more closely:
> You sign up for first-year German and go out and buy the textbook. It's
> a beautiful, expensive, hard-bound book, published in Dortmund. The book
> mentions the customs of the Hottentots (Hottentotten in German). The
> book tells us that when opossums (Beutelratten) are captured, they are
> placed in cages (Kasten) with bars made of wood slats (Lattengitter) to
> keep them from escaping.
> These particular cages are called Lattengitterkasten in German and when
> there are opossums inside them they are know as
> Beutelrattenlattengitterkasten.
>
> One day, the Hottentot police arrested a would-be murderer (Attentater),
> who allegedly tried to kill a Hottentot mother (mutter). Her son is
> good-for-nothing stutterer (Stottertrottel), so his mother is,
> therefore, a Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter and her would-be murderer
> is a Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentater.
>
> Easy, right?
>
> So the police captured the suspect and put him, temporarily, in an
> opossum cage (Beutelrattenlattengitterkasten) for safe-keeping until
> they could take him to jail, but the prisoner escaped! A search ensued
> and a Hottentot warrior cried out, "I have captured the murder suspect
> (den Attentater)!"
> "Yes? Which one?" asked the chieftain.
> "The Beutelrattenlattengitterkastenattentater!" replied the warrior.
> "What? The murder suspect who was in the opossum cage?" asked the
> Hottentot chieftain.
> "That's right," said the warrior, "the
> Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentater."
> By now you know enough German to understand that he's talking about the
> would-be murderer of the mother of the good-for-nothing Hottentot
> stutterer, right?
> "Oh, I see", says the Hottentot chieftain, "why didn't you say so right
> away? You could have begun by saying that you had captured the ... wait
> for it.......
> Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkastenattentater!"
>
>
> As you can see, German is a very easy language. All you have to do is
> pay a little attention.

LOL!

Ben

*lol*
even as german I almost can't read it without getting knots in my tongue

Hey that is the street I live on! That is too funny. Thanks for the lesson, Ram.

RT1

Gee, like I needed another reason not to learn the language! Just to make sure you weren't yanking my chain, I cut-and-pasted all that jargon onto Babelfish---and my computer exploded. I'm writing from a friend's place. Thanks a lot, Ram....j/k.

Paula

*LOL* PT,
how can Babelfish or Altavista not make a computer explode?
Don't need a 1/8 mile long word to do that
Those translating programs are good for nothing. If you halfway speak a language and see what them progs translate for senceless **** - just try a little more difficult text, translate it into another language and have the program translate it back...

Not that I ever thaught that I speak/write english well (do lots of mistakes) but I am proud of that Babelfish is worse than me.
And I am also not speaking perfect german: Mix my pfälzisch slang with the better german and my daughters special terms, stir with some english, spice with a little bit of french and spain - and nobody knows what I am talking about...

I would definetly have to go with Roy's responce on this one

How can you say that? They always make your day ... e.g. can you guess what original english term is used to get the german term "Geschlechtsnocken" from Babelfish?


huh? J/K

That is funny Garry, about the Geschlechtsnocken, what does it really mean in German? I took the time to look it up on Alta. Funny!

RT1

There is no such word in german ...

Well that makes it even funnier! So it is like that Farfignugen thing that VW made up?

RT1

See! Thats what I mean! not even Garry knows what I am talking about! LOL

Geschlechtsnocken and Farfignugen...
...reminds me of an Italian Restaurant
temporarly run by some Asian Family
with menu in german/english written.
Should have kept a copy. Was fun to order there,
because you never knew what you were gonna' get.
Tasted good, ate often for lunch.
Was closed by the Gesundheitsamt later because of
their
Moulasch = mouse in gulasch (sliced meat, usually pork)
Kroachettes = roaches in kroquettes
Pizza with Hot 'DOG' Wurst
And we all thought they could not spell...

Hey this is cool... I jsut went to msn.de, and typed in 'Geschlechtsnocken' in that little box that says 'suche' on it. Ooooooooo yeah! :p

RT1

What the ****!