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[Moz]

or Victory comics ..lol

 

[hermes]

My sis-in-law is German. When my brother first introduced us he said "This is Inga, her grandad used to drop bombs on ours!"

When she shouts at their kids, whether in German or in English with a German accent it's so scary that grown men have been known to wet themselves from fear.

 

[Richardp]

My sis-in-law is German. When my brother first introduced us he said "This is Inga, her grandad used to drop bombs on ours!"

When she shouts at their kids, whether in German or in English with a German accent it's so scary that grown men have been known to wet themselves from fear.

I had a german girl friend once phew! and I mean Phew! in the true sense of the word

 

[AdamW]

whether in German or in English with a German accent it's so scary that grown men have been known to wet themselves from fear.

The word "butterfly" in various languages...

English: "oooh, a butterfly"... gentle, floating word
French: "ah, mon ami, un papillon!"... again, a word that glides out of the mouth.
Italian: "mama-mia! Una farfalla!!" it rolls off the tongue more than it glides, but it is rather poetic.

German? Do you want to know the german word for butterfly?

"Gott in himmel! Es ist ein schmetterling!"

Schmetterling... what a harsh, abusive-sounding word

I was talking to a German post-doc chemist at a party once. Somehow we got onto the subject of poets. I made the mistake of suggesting German isn't a very poetic language, he insisted it was... but even he, a clever old stick, could only name Goethe.