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Wer unbedacht ein Fremdwort wählt
und deutsches Wort für ihn nicht zählt,

wer happy sagt und glücklich meint
und sunshine, wenn die Sonne scheint,

wer hot gebraucht anstelle heiss,
know-how benutzt, wenn er was weiss,

wer sich mit sorry kühl verneigt;
und shows abzieht, wenn er was zeigt,

wer shopping geht statt einzukaufen,
und jogging sagt zum Dauerlaufen,

der bleibt zwar fit, doch merkt zu spät,
wenn er kein Wort mehr Deutsch versteht.

funny how many irish folk is gathered already in this thread...I say funny because I always dreamed of emigrating towards Ireland...sometimes it is way too crowed here in berlin...thus a more spaced out and not overpopulated island in the north would be a nice change of pace... unfortunately I now have kids and one gets a bit stuck in his ways

aber wenn jemand was fragen will... bin gern bereit meine eigenen sprachlichen unfähigkeiten unter beweis zu stellen ...nebenbei... ich hasse groß- und kleinschreibung...


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at weltenwolf...that sounds like modern wilhem busch...?...who wrote that lil poem?

Ins Deutschland, habe ich ein Job, ins Irland, habe ich die Arbeitslosen! Aber west-Irland ist schoen. Ost-Irland, nicht!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
... ich hasse groß- und kleinschreibung...

Blasphemie! Das ist das Beste an der deutschen Sprache, Anderen ans Bein zu pissen, weil sie die Groß- und Kleinschreibung nicht hinkriegen!
(Als würde ich nicht selbst dabei versagen. )

Da Boss wrote:Ins Deutschland, habe ich ein Job, ins Irland, habe ich die Arbeitslosen! Aber west-Irland ist schoen. Ost-Irland, nicht!

yeah... I´ve heard about these numbers...

Weltenwolf wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
... ich hasse groß- und kleinschreibung...

Blasphemie! Das ist das Beste an der deutschen Sprache, Anderen ans Bein zu pissen, weil sie die Groß- und Kleinschreibung nicht hinkriegen!
(Als würde ich nicht selbst dabei versagen. )

ich fand immer...: wer rechtschreibfehler findet, darf sie behalten...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
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at weltenwolf...that sounds like modern wilhem busch...?...who wrote that lil poem?

Google says Friedrich K. Weibel, don't know myself, I got it from an old issue of DMZ


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 Viktor von Domm wrote:
ich fand immer...: wer rechtschreibfehler findet, darf sie behalten...

Das sowieso, aber ich versuche immer so korrekt wie möglich zu schreiben, damit ich anderen immer den Grammatik/Rechtschreibfaschisten machen kann, wenn sie wieder anfangen zu denglischen oder anderweitig die deutsche Sprache mißhandeln. Insbesondere in WoW krieg ich immer wieder Augenkrebs von der Diarrhö die da ins Chatfenster gepflanzt wird.


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@ OP; if you want to shine, this would be the right dictionary for you.
Just joking, please don't use that.

wow ist meines erachtens auch etwas was zwar ein multiplayer, verzeihung, mehrspieler spiel darstellt...aber ich spiels eh immer eher im alleingang

Ist vielleicht auch besser so. Der Sitten- und Moralverfall der seit WotLK einzug gehalten hat, mit all den ganzen Beutegeilen, inkompetenten, rechthaberischen Vollpfosten (insbesondere sei hier erwähnt AEEEEGWWWYYYNN), trübt ziemlich stark den noch vorhandenen Restspielspaß, besonders wenn man noch zur alten Schule gehört und Wert auf Zusammenarbeit und Gerechtigkeit legt.

eine recht gute zusammenfassung... mein ende fand ich mit wow als die tagesaufgaben zum selbstzweck eingeführt wurden... ich muss nun wirklich nicht im spiel auch noch arbeiten gehen...

Weltenwolf wrote:Schluchtensch... sry, austrians

Don't take it to seriously, ...

Oh, don't worry, I would be the first Austrian to take a German seriously, we know better than that!

JB wrote: I still owe you a beverage or two of your choice.

I know, still looking forward to it!

Sienisoturi wrote:
Ah good, a thread full of people living in Vienna! Can you please read my sig.

Sent.

 Allod wrote:
Oh, don't worry, I would be the first Austrian to take a German seriously, we know better than that!

Always cute when the little brother tries to raise against the bigger one. Do I need to call the Freiwillige Feuerwehr Passau?

(I went to Passau last year during the snow. Lovely town! Though Vienna used to be in the diocese of Passau, didn't it?

Was in Vienna for New Years. Bloody impressive city, much nicer than Dusseldorf!)

Wien is a real Kaiserstadt, unlike Berlin, so of course it's impressive, with all the beautiful buildings and history roaming the air. Have to visit it one day, never came farther than Linz, with all the relatives living in Oberösterreich and always inviting us over.

now wait...we have two domes...and even more bridges than venice....doesn´t that amount to something against Vienna?...

 Weltenwolf wrote:

 JB wrote:
This made me laugh. JFK is still quite popular in Europe. There are a lot of streets named after him as well as monuments and plaques. It seems like every large city has something named after JFK or Martin Luther King, sometimes both

Huh, never seen a Martin Luther King street/monument in germany or austria, the only thing I know is the Studentenheim in FFM. You're sure we're not talking about the original Martin Luther?

Edit: Nevermind, Google Maps is your friend, found 5 streets, 1 weg, 1 park and 1 ring.

Keep Googling. Nearly every major German city has something named after Martin Luther King. Vienna also has a street.

I believe that every German-speaking city outside of Bavaria has something named after Martin Luther, Goethe, and Schiller as well.

That's ironic. I didn't know about the Studentenheim but it is less than ten minutes walking distance from my apartment. I don't really have a reason to ever visit Schwanheim.

 Da Boss wrote:
Ich vorgesse immer die artikelen!

 easysauce wrote:
I think I am articulate

Now that's lustig.

Da Boss wrote:(I went to Passau last year during the snow. Lovely town! Though Vienna used to be in the diocese of Passau, didn't it?

Was in Vienna for New Years. Bloody impressive city, much nicer than Dusseldorf!)

Weltenwolf wrote:Wien is a real Kaiserstadt, unlike Berlin, so of course it's impressive, with all the beautiful buildings and history roaming the air. Have to visit it one day, never came farther than Linz, with all the relatives living in Oberösterreich and always inviting us over.

Viktor von Domm wrote:now wait...we have two domes...and even more bridges than venice....doesn´t that amount to something against Vienna?...

Wien is my favorite city to visit in Europe but I have not been to Berlin yet. I also enjoy Frankfurt am Main, Speyer, Köln, Heidelberg, Trier, and Mainz. I still need to visit Strasbourg and see the Minster. Is Worms worth a visit?

I have not encountered many Germans or Austrians that speak unusual variations of the language, but then I am older and usually speak with people over the age of 30. The Swabians around Stuttgart and some of the Bavarians puzzle me every so often. I haven't encountered Low-German or Sorbian yet.

I´ve always wondered why all the Dutch I´ve met could speak fluent German while no German I know can speak any Dutch at all...

Schwäbisch is pretty hard to understand, even if you've been taught Hochdeutsch by Swabians. But then again, think of B-W's state motto

Manchu wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
Ich vorgesse immer die artikelen!

 easysauce wrote:
I think I am articulate

Now that's lustig.

In EasySauce's defense, the sentence in German should have been, "Ich vergesse immer die Artikeln." Lassen Sie ihn zu denken.

That poem that Weltenwolf posted was quite good. Every nation worries that its language is under attack, though no one is as defensive about it as the French.



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 tommse wrote:
I´ve always wondered why all the Dutch I´ve met could speak fluent German while no German I know can speak any Dutch at all...

Frage an den niederländischen. Where is BrookM or Soladrin when you need them?

at JB...low german... is this platt deutsch that you speak of?...sounds almost degrading......

and if you want to learn schwäbisch fluently...then just watch ANY german TV talkshow... it is inevitable not to understand someday further schwäbisch as always these shows tend to be littered by schwaben (not really a friendly description on my part here but totally the truth...) also...if one german meets another german somewhere on a remote location on earth... it is bound to be a saxon...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
now wait...we have two domes...and even more bridges than venice....doesn´t that amount to something against Vienna?...

Well, Berlin just hasn't this "Wiener flair". Berlin is much more robust, grounded. A working class city, with quite a bunch of impressive architecture. Less nobility, more hard working prussian character.

 tommse wrote:
I´ve always wondered why all the Dutch I´ve met could speak fluent German while no German I know can speak any Dutch at all...

Talking oranje is Hochverrat and will be persecuted by public quartering.

Manchu wrote:
Schwäbisch is pretty hard to understand, even if you've been taught Hochdeutsch by Swabians. But then again, think of B-W's state motto

No joke, Schwaben have a really hard dialect. But at least it's soft enough to be enjoyable. I totally can't stand Kölsch and Berliner Schnauze.

 JB wrote:
Wien is my favorite city to visit in Europe but I have not been to Berlin yet. I also enjoy Frankfurt am Main, Speyer, Köln, Heidelberg, Trier, and Mainz. I still need to visit Strasbourg and see the Minster. Is Worms worth a visit?

Strasbourg is nice, Frankfurt is just a hellhole, full of crime and corruption, except for Alt Sachsenhausen . Can't say something about Worms, was never there. But in the end, the only city worthy of visiting is Langen (Hessen).

 Weltenwolf wrote:

Always cute when the little brother tries to raise against the bigger one.

You mean the richer little brother who had the bigger one under wardship for almost 400 years? Oh, that one doesn't need to raise, he just nods and smiles indulgently when the bigger one goes into a new round of boasting at the family reunion.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
at JB...low german... is this platt deutsch that you speak of?...sounds almost degrading......

and if you want to learn schwäbisch fluently...then just watch ANY german TV talkshow... it is inevitable not to understand someday further schwäbisch as always these shows tend to be littered by schwaben (not really a friendly description on my part here but totally the truth...) also...if one german meets another german somewhere on a remote location on earth... it is bound to be a saxon...

This is so true, they're everywhere since they took away our safety wall ...

No joke, Schwaben have a really hard dialect. But at least it's soft enough to be enjoyable. I totally can't stand Kölsch and Berliner Schnauze.


na da sach ick doch ma fein dankeschöön...

 Allod wrote:

 Weltenwolf wrote:

Always cute when the little brother tries to raise against the bigger one.

You mean the richer little brother who had the bigger one under wardship for almost 400 years? Oh, that one doesn't need to raise, he just nods and smiles indulgently when the bigger one goes into a new round of boasting at the family reunion.

Touché, nicely played.

 JB wrote:

 Weltenwolf wrote:

 JB wrote:
This made me laugh. JFK is still quite popular in Europe. There are a lot of streets named after him as well as monuments and plaques. It seems like every large city has something named after JFK or Martin Luther King, sometimes both

Huh, never seen a Martin Luther King street/monument in germany or austria, the only thing I know is the Studentenheim in FFM. You're sure we're not talking about the original Martin Luther?

Edit: Nevermind, Google Maps is your friend, found 5 streets, 1 weg, 1 park and 1 ring.

Keep Googling. Nearly every major German city has something named after Martin Luther King. Vienna also has a street.

Was walking through a random city in Italy and found this:



You will notice that it is, in fact, in the east side of that city

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
na da sach ick doch ma fein dankeschöön...

Biddeschee, aba ned das de mir nu anfange tust zu babbele wie an Wassafall. Bundeswehr destroyed it all, everybody was either from Kölle or from deepest Berlin. Icke weeste, Icke wesste...

LOL... quite a brutal mixture the last post^^

 Weltenwolf wrote:
No joke, Schwaben have a really hard dialect. But at least it's soft enough to be enjoyable.

A German friend once told me I speak German with a Schwäbische accent. To me, it seemed like a huge compliment.