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The German Language
#21
RE: The German Language
(January 16, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Wanna know what Fick means?
ficken
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

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#22
RE: The German Language
You're missing a cruial "vovel shift" there Smile

@Yeaux

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.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#23
RE: The German Language
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,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
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,
Signifying nothing.
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#24
RE: The German Language
(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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#25
RE: The German Language
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
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#26
RE: The German Language
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? Smile
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#27
RE: The German Language
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.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#28
RE: The German Language
(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 Smile
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#29
RE: The German Language
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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#30
RE: The German Language
"just" is a funny example, I wonder whether it falls in the same category
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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