Toi!

[Craig]

This is more water cooler than fantasy land, so moving to that area.

Cheers,
Craig

[DamedEscrime]

Party pooper!

[Moonitic]

Gracias, Craig!

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<STRONG>Party pooper!</STRONG>

La personne qui enlève l'amusement!

[veeco]

Le triste sire...

[veeco]

Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<STRONG>Swordsman, was ist der stoff? Können sie nicht französisch sprechen?

ou talvez você gostaria do português.

[ 10-03-2001: Message edited by: DamedEscrime ]</STRONG>

Doch doch. Es gibt viele Leute, die nicht franzoesich sprechen koennen.

モットダイテ！！

[Catlady]

Tag!

Koennten Ihr allen nicht Deutsch sprechen? Warum denn nicht?!? Englisch ist wirklich eine Germanische Sprache.

Ich habe Deutsch als Nebenfach auf Uni gemacht--meine Hauptfach war Literatur. Es ist aber schon vier Jahre als ich regalmassig Deutsch sprechen, oder schreiben koennten. Also, ich weis meine Grammatik ist ganz furchtbar. Entschuldigung bitte.

Es sagte das man kennt sie eine neue Fechter ist wenn mann nicht auf Deutsch, Franzoesich oder Russisch fluchen koennten. Ich muss fragen, ich koennte auf Deutsch fluchen bevor ich Fechtsport gemacht hat, ist das gut? Hofentlich ist es, weil ich noch nicht sehr gut Fechten kann. Es ist schwerer Deutsch zu schreiben wann es keine Umlaut oder esszet(sp?) gab. Ach ja, ich kann auch nicht auf Deutsch buchstabieren. Vielleicht als die Olympische Spiele nach Utah kommten, konnte ich als Dollmetcherin ein bischen Geld verdienen, aber vielleicht nicht. Wie ich vorher gesagt hat, meine Grammatik und auch meine Aczent sind sehr fuerchtbar.

Also, fuellen Sie sich jetzt besser Veeco und Swordsman?

Es gab nicht genau eine Wort auf Deutsch fuer Catwoman, also

deine,
Katzefritz (vielleicht, meine Omi nannte mich immer zucherfritz, oder Messfritz {den letzte weiss ich ist "Denglisch", nicht echte Deutsch}, also warum koennte ich nicht Katzefritz sein).

[ 10-06-2001: Message edited by: Catlady ]

[Catlady]

All right, since I'm feeling generous, here's a translation.
Hi,
Can't you guys speak German? Why not? English is really a Germanic language.

I minored in German in college--my major was English (literally literature). It's been four years however since I've had a chance to speak or write German on a regular basis. I know my grammar is terrible. I'm sorry.

It says you know you're a new fencer if you can't swear in German, French, or Russian. I have to ask, I could swear in German before I started fencing, is that good? I hope so because I still don't fence very well. It's harder to write in German when there's no umlaut (those two dots found frequently above vowels in Germanic languages), or esszets (a way of writing two esses in a row with one character, it looks a little like the Greek letter beta). No, I can't spell in German either. Maybe since the Olympics are coming to Utah I can earn some money as a translator, then again maybe not. Like I said before, my grammar, and spelling are both pretty horrible.

So, Veeco and Swordsman, do you feel better now?

There isn't an exact translation of Catwoman in German so it'll have to be

Yours,
Katzefritz (my Grandma always called me Zucherfritz (sugar fritz), or messfritz, I know that last one is "Denglish" (or half German half English) and not real German, so why can't I be a Katzefritz.

That's it.

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

Yes, I know some German. No, it is not as close to English as you seem to think it is. That's like kind of odd for someone with your grasp of the German language to say. You even admitted your German grammar skills were terrible.

Du kannst meine popo küssen.

You can always cut and paste from the character map to get umlauts printed.

[DamedEscrime]

355 seien Sie nett!

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

Damedescrime,
Ich mochte deine popo küssen.

[DamedEscrime]

355
Ich wußte nicht, daß Sie sich interessierten.

[Catlady]

First off, I was trying to respond in a playful manner to all the French speakers, as well as support my fellow German speakers, not accuse anyone of being inferior or stupid because they do, or do not speak German. Other than that, I was excited because, as I said, I haven't had a real chance to either speak or write German in quite a while. I got carried away
Not to start a fight here about the similarity, or lack thereof, of languages, especially on what isn't really a serious thread, but I beg to differ, actually German and English are similar, especially if you are familiar with some older versions of English. Note school=Schule, Katze=Cat, Hund=Dog (hound), Huhn=chicken (hen), Stop=Stopfe, witch=Hex (granted the words themselves aren't similar, but witches are supposed to put hexes on people in folklore-- I don't want any Wiccans out there to flame me), mouth=Mund, nose=Nase, finger(s)=Finger(n), hand(s)=Hand(en), arms=Armen, shoes=Schuhe, hair=Haar house=Haus, there are others. It could be argued that in an odd way, this is bizarre etomological stuff humanity major types like me like to engage in BTW, the German word for poison (Gift)has a relationship to English--when someone gives you a gift, the obligation is now on you, so to speak, which may actually poison the relationship. Granted there are many words in German that are totally different in English and vice versa, and I'm sure you can point out words in English that are similar to, or the same as, words in other languages--I know garage is French,or French influenced for instance. However, here are in fact some words in Middle English which are the same as words in German.

That said however, what I said was English was a Germanic language, meaning that it has roots in common with German, as do Danish, Dutch and a few other languages--that's opposed to Italian, or French, to name a few, which, are classified as Romance languages. Not necessarily that it is as close to English as you seem to think I am implying it is. English, both American and British, is of course a hodge-podge of many languages--middle English at least is heavily Latin and French as well. I am well aware of that.
BTW, are you saying that my German is good and you'd expect me to know better, or that my German is in fact so horrible that I am being presumptuous to make any statements on its relation to English? No biggie, I just want to know when I should be flattered

I thank you for your advice on cut and pasting from the character map. Being the computer Luddite that I am, I was not aware of this--by now I barely remember how to get those characters off of the IBM alt codes.

I know you put a smiley by this so I'm not insulted, but a harsher version of your statement would be "Ihr koennte mich Kreutzweise." (It translates literally BTW as something like, you can lick my butt--or term of your choice for that particular body part--crosswise). Believe it or not this has a relatively respectable literary reference--although I was told the title of the book by a professor, I've now forgotten-- where the main character is under seige. An arch-bishop sends a messenger with an offer to this character. The characters response is, roughly translated, "Tell your arch-bishop he can kiss my butt". Anyway, that's the story I heard. In addition, the more vulgar term for that is Arsch, much like the British version--I told you I could swear, or at least be rude, in German didn't I?

One final note on this topic, for the definite word on vulgarity or slang in any language, or at least almost any, check out the Alternate Dictionary site--true to form I can't recall the URL at the moment and am too lazy to look.

Now for the last note, has anyone on here ever accidentally started to speak the wrong language, especially while directing. I don't know what most fencing terms would translate to in German, or how one would even begin to direct in German, although I could guess, but every so often on a simultaneous touch I find myself about to say "zusammen" in stead of simultaneous. Apparently I've also been known to speak German in my sleep--I wouldn't know as I'm asleep when it happens --and once when I nearly feel asleep during a particularly dull English class, I think I was attempting to take notes in German--as you might imagine due to the drowsiness and the limits on my "technical" German, it didn't work very well.

That's probably more than enough for now. Happy fencing.

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

To Catlady,
You know that little quote at the end of your signature? That applied right after you said "First off".

To Damedescrime,
Photographieren Sie deine Popo. Geben Sie dann mir die Bilder, bitte.


[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: three_hundred_fifty_five ]

[DamedEscrime]

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: DamedEscrime ]

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: DamedEscrime ]

[Haze]

Originally posted by three_hundred_fifty_five:
<STRONG>To Catlady,
You know that little quote at the end of your signature? That applied right after you said "First off". </STRONG>

Nothing wrong with that - at least she is honest! When I first saw that signature I thought about how much it applied to me. Fortunately I don't know the subject matter here much (yet) so you guys are all safe from that for now...

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

To Catlady,
Don't take my comments seriously. I am only kidding. Thanks for explaining about the German idiom for the American phrase "kiss my butt". It was informative.


To Damedescrime,
Die Bilder, bitte.

[ 10-08-2001: Message edited by: three_hundred_fifty_five ]

[Grendel]

jare tujous fam de toi

[lochinvar]

Grendel: ???
That makes no sense in any French I've heard of, Parisian OR Quebecois...

[DamedEscrime]

Nr., 355. Sie müssen Ihre Abbildungen vor mir zeigen.