Tesshu wrote:cdobe wrote:In Germany we say: 'The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes'
Actually we say "Die dümmsten Bauern ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln." Otherwise nobody would understand you in Germany.
Tesshu wrote:cdobe wrote:In Germany we say: 'The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes'
Actually we say "Die dümmsten Bauern ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln." Otherwise nobody would understand you in Germany.
qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?
Andy_S wrote:Really? The German literature which I (avidly) studied in my youth was full of phrases like:
Gott in himmell!
Achtung! Schpitfeur!
Die Englander! Die!
Are such Teutonic phrases no longer current? And do any of you fellows have a monocle?
Martin wrote:qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?
If you stare at this image long enough, a map of the United States will appear in the background.
Martin wrote:qiphlow wrote:how's the weather?
If you stare at this image long enough, a map of the United States will appear in the background.
lazyboxer wrote:Andy_S wrote:Really? The German literature which I (avidly) studied in my youth was full of phrases like:
Gott in himmell!
Achtung! Schpitfeur!
Die Englander! Die!
I don't recall Goethe or Schiller ever having written "achtung, Englischer schweinhund!", "donner und blitzen!!" and similar literary gems. Perhaps I went to the wrong school.Are such Teutonic phrases no longer current? And do any of you fellows have a monocle?
I don't think the good Europeans of modern Germany approve of our sense of humour. Unfortunately I had to sell my monocle to buy rations.
qiphlow wrote:knopfloch!
(sorry, that's all the german i know.)
Tesshu wrote:qiphlow wrote:knopfloch!
(sorry, that's all the german i know.)
Then you will like "Klappstuhl".
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