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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 18, 2007, 09:41:28 am ---"Du bist ein vierglich denker, hier?"
Sorry, my German is very rusty. :)
Hey, that's quite close, Jeff! Very good :) - and not rusty at all.
vierglich = wirklich
She said: "Ja, ja. Du bist ein echter Denker hier."
In German, the two words wirklich and echt both mean real.
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Thanks, Little Darlin'! :D
I'd still call it rusty, though. I should have remembered how to spell wirklich, and to capitalize all nouns (Denker). My pronunciation used to be pretty good, though.
I had one year of Deutsch in high school (after five years of French :P ;D ), and one year in college to fulfill the language requirement for graduation. The college professor was a native speaker, and she asked me if we spoke the language at home! :o
Maybe you can take the family out of Rheinpfalz, but you can't take Rheinpfalz out of the family (we've been in Pennsylvania since 1748. :P )
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 18, 2007, 10:22:41 am ---Thanks, Little Darlin'! :D
I'd still call it rusty, though. I should have remembered how to spell wirklich, and to capitalize all nouns (Denker). My pronunciation used to be pretty good, though.
I had one year of Deutsch in high school (after five years of French :P ;D ), and one year in college to fulfill the language requirement for graduation. The college professor was a native speaker, and she asked me if we spoke the language at home! :o
Maybe you can take the family out of Rheinpfalz, but you can't take Rheinpfalz out of the family (we've been in Pennsylvania since 1748. :P )
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I'm looking forward to speak a few words German with you at the BBQ :). I can even demonstrate the local dialect to you, as it is spoken hier in the Pfalz.
Do you know from which area your family comes?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 18, 2007, 11:00:35 am ---I'm looking forward to speak a few words German with you at the BBQ :). I can even demonstrate the local dialect to you, as it is spoken hier in the Pfalz.
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Then you'll have to speak r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y and distinctly! ;D
--- Quote ---Do you know from which area your family comes?
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My great uncle, now deceased, was an amateur genealogist. It's been a long time since I last looked at his work. Some of it wasn't that good, as it lacked real documentation, but if I remember correctly, the immigrant ancestor came from Zweibruecken (sorry, I don't know how to do umlauts here). Possibly the family roots go even farther back to Thuringia, to a Reformed Pfarrer who came from Thuringia to the Pfalz in the mid-seventeeth century.
HerrKaiser:
es ist immer etwas neues! ;)
another BBMism...I find myself saying "no whaay" in the manner Ennis did their first evening at camp along the river in response to Jack's "..it could be like this always".
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 18, 2007, 12:04:25 pm ---..., but if I remember correctly, the immigrant ancestor came from Zweibruecken
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Zweibrücken is not far from me. About an hour by car.
Die Welt ist ein Dorf. (It's a small world)
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