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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:27 AM
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Sprachgefühl
SHPRAKH-guh-fyool n. a feeling for language or a sensitivity for what is correct language.

:toast:
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:30 AM
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1. Sounds Communist to me.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:32 AM
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2. nah, sounds third way
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 04:46 AM
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17. Deutsche Demokratische Republik
of fond memory!
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 05:10 AM
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18. fond memory????????
how can someone have a fond memory of a dictatotship??????
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:15 AM
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25. I have a fond memory of that dictatorship:
One memory in particular:

My high school soccer team traveled to Dresden to play an exhibition match against a semi-pro team that plays near there. We beat them handily.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:36 AM
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32. well, I have forn memories of my childhood
but not of the dictatorship under which I lived.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 01:47 PM
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44. Was not everyone employed however?
The viciousness of free market capitalism had not yet ravaged its society. I know it was a repressive state. But the switch to eurocapitalism has caused much heartbreak.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:30 PM
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47. because everybody thought it would give a big bang
and all are living in a gold world. Nobody thought about that west Germany worked for 40 years to get this wealth. And there went a lot wrong ´from the politic.

I for myself can say I am a lot further than I would have been still living in the GDR. I am not making overly money but enough to live good from it.

And socialism doesn't work because there is always someone who is making more mone of it while the others suffer. And nobody cares about bulidings because it isn't its own.

No thank you. I take social capitalism over socialism every time.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:21 PM
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48. You make some good points
and I basically sympathize. Anarcho-syndikalismus interessiert mich und nicht Lenin oder Stalin! Selige (und froehliche) Weihnachtzeit und ein gutes Neues Jahr!
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:37 AM
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3. I don't have it.
Unfortunately, there is no censoring device located in my brain that filters out stuff coming out of my mouth. Sometimes, I wish I had it, but sometimes I just gotta say, Up yours to Big brother Bush spies.... If I disappear, I disappear. Sadly. :shrug:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:38 AM
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4. you know I would open that thread
seeing a German word :hi:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:46 AM
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6. Heh
It worked. :evilgrin:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:48 AM
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7. hold on ....
I should have answered in German ..... verdammt :evilgrin:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:55 AM
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11. That reminds me
I have a book by a guy who was an officer in the Hitler Youth. He uses the phrase "dummer narr" a lot in it (usually it's his grandmother saying it). I can guess "dummer," but what's "narr" mean?
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:57 AM
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12. stupid fool n/t
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:39 AM
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5. oh yeah?
"Instinct." I use it. I'm rarely wrong. :P
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:53 AM
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9. I know, but
stuff sounds cooler in foreign languages.

"I have schadenfreude" is cooler than "I'm laughing at your pain."

"Je ne sais quoi" is cooler than "Uh... y'know."

"¡Mira que tiene que cosa la mujer esta!" is cooler than "Stupid bitch!"

Etc.

:evilgrin:
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:49 AM
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8. Gesundheit
Salud!
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vajraroshana Donating Member (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:55 AM
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10. I like it....
I'll try to remember it.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:32 AM
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13. that pronunciation....
...looks a little off to me. Since when is "ge" pronounced "guh"?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:42 AM
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14. That's how it was given to me
My extremely limited knowledge tells me to pronounce it "geh," with a clipped 'h'.

Then again, for all I know it could be pronounced "swordfish." :silly:
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:43 AM
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15. tink
I didn't mean to sound snarky.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:47 AM
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16. I know
And if you knew who gave it to me, you'd understand.

(She only deals in Reality.)

:hi:
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:04 AM
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19. What an ugly word.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:08 AM
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20. Well, in a language that has the word "Geschlechts" for sex...
What'd you expect? :)
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:11 AM
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21. but we still say sex
:)
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 AM
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22. Well, of course... Since the alternative is Geschlechts!
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 AM by Misunderestimator
:D
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:14 AM
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24. the whole word for sex
in the sense of having fun is Geschlechtsverkehr
Geschlecht alone is sex in the sense of male or female

:)
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:23 AM
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27. Well, there you go! Geschlechtsverkehr definitely rolls off the tongue.
:)
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:25 AM
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28. ahhh come on
you have some tongue breakers in your language also :)

like hippopotamus ... took me ages to say it right
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:31 AM
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29. Im Salzkammergut
da kann man gut lustig sein!

I've always loved that. It's true that "unser Muttersprache" has some words that sound like somebody hocking a loogie, but some of them are just damn fun to say.
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:06 AM
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38. when I started to learn English
it was a strange feeling to me to say "You're welcome" for "bitte". Into German it translates to "Du bist willkommen". I still find that funny in a way.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:33 AM
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30. Ich kenne ein bisschen Deutsch...
I'm just kidding around... I love the language! :hi:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:35 AM
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31. keine Sorge
I am joking around also. :hi:

.... or we could start a new flamewar :evilgrin:
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:37 AM
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33. Oooh... yes, we could talk about how they fry chicken in Germany.
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 09:37 AM by Misunderestimator
:bounce:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:39 AM
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34. we put them on a stick
and hang them in the grill and let them sweat ... then they get called Broiler (at least in East Germany :) )
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:41 AM
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35. Sweaty chicken... yummmmmm
:D
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:43 AM
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36. yup
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:48 AM
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37. LOL!
:rofl:
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 12:13 PM
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42. Just like "Sexual Intercourse"
:P
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 12:16 PM
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43. True... That's a bit clinical.
:D
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:03 AM
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39. D'englisch Übersetzung:
Gender traffic
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:13 AM
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23. How did Germans ever reproduce?
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 09:16 AM
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26. we do
believe me :)

and you have a German as your avater ... LOL
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:52 AM
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40. Fräulein Honigkirche!
Ich habe nicht gewusst. Wohnen Sie jetzt in Deutschland, oder sind Sie nach Amerika gekommen?
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 12:06 PM
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41. I lived and live in Germany
just been to the U.S. short periods.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 01:48 PM
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45. Mein Sprachgefühl
heisst Weltschmerz.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 02:08 PM
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46. Natürlich
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