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RE: The German Language
January 16, 2016 at 10:15 pm
(January 16, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Wanna know what Fick means? ficken
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 1:36 am
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You're missing a cruial "vovel shift" there 
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Right, saying that Engish came from German is a bit like saying that we came from monkeys. Well, it depends on what you still call German. So, the tribe called the Angeln, hinted at by the first half of the name Anglosaxon, allegedly came from the region that is now the German-Danish border and settled in Britain.
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 2:19 am
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It start getting even weirder when you realize French has been swaping words with germa almost as much as it has swaped with English. Until you live in a bilingual part of Canada and here "oui, j'allez Mon favorite place"
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
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To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 5:27 am
(January 16, 2016 at 9:21 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I also took a class in Medieval literature in my masters program and I recall the professor told us that old English is closer to modern English than Medieval English is. Does that hold true with German also?
Middle High German is understandable, most of all readable, with some getting used to. But that's the language of the famous medieval poets, not of the commoners. And the authorities still wrote their documents largely in Latin.
It was only with Martin Luther, his bible translation and the printing press that something like a universal German language surfaced. And still there are too many dialects to count. Some of them barely understandable to me.
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 5:42 am
I once spent a week in Weisbaden and was amazed that anyone could find their way round the place - half the streets were called 'Einbahnstrasse'. We'd be trying to get somewhere and I'd say to my mates, 'Jaysus, we're on Einbahnstrasse again?'
They let me make a mug of myself for a day and a half.
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 6:50 am
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You go to Germany, and what you get to see is Wiesbaden? Well, it could be worse. Did you cross over to Mainz at least?
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 6:56 am
No, didn't get to Mainz. Went from our hotel to the venue to the hotel to the venue to the hotel...you get the picture. Didn't see a lot of the sights, but it was a pretty lucrative trip.
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 6:57 am
(January 17, 2016 at 5:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I once spent a week in Weisbaden and was amazed that anyone could find their way round the place - half the streets were called 'Einbahnstrasse'. We'd be trying to get somewhere and I'd say to my mates, 'Jaysus, we're on Einbahnstrasse again?'
They let me make a mug of myself for a day and a half.
Boru
I hope when you realized that you accidentally entered Einbahnstrasse again, you didn't turn your car around to go back
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 7:22 am
Since we were talking about medieval German and english. There are also a lot of words, not being in common use anymore. You know their meaning, but virtually nobody would use them. And one of them is "Pein", which, of course, translates to "pain" in english.
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RE: The German Language
January 17, 2016 at 8:42 am
"just" is a funny example, I wonder whether it falls in the same category
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