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“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
So when are you due to be deported then...?Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Grammar lesson, not vocab. It's Das because Vaterland is in the neutral gender (which is because Land is also neutral). Of course that's only in the nominative and accusative cases, in dative it's Dem and in genitive it's Des - but noboday uses the genitive case much nowadays.Originally posted by Mordac View Post
#betenfürbr14 (or if we're all per du, then #betetfürbr14).Originally posted by darmstadt View PostDown with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Correct, forgot the 'n' in the first post and then the dangers of cut and paste... 'Bete zu NAT'...Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Fair play, it's been 35 years since I did any German (CSE Grade 1, and no, I have no idea how that happened, except for an administrative error). The teacher, who was about as German as Scooty, described everything as 'German vocab'.Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
I thought Swiss-German was grammatically distinct from 'real' German?His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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And vocab distinct.Originally posted by Mordac View Post
My one trip to Switzerland, we found a place o eat where nobody spoke English. Mrs OG couldn't understand the conversation when she tried her real German. My French didn't work but we got by with my Italian. It all felt very smug metropolitan elite, before we even knew we were such a thing.Last edited by Old Greg; 17 September 2020, 10:53.Comment
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In fact, imperative in the formal would be #betensiefürbr14.Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
There's German high German and Swiss high German. They're very similar and have the same grammar - the differences are largely preferred word usage. Swiss high German doesn't have the ß; they use ss. And some words are different - in German they use the verb parken, in Switzerland parkieren.Originally posted by Mordac View Post
But Swiss German is a dialect, with different grammar rules (e.g. you don't say "I went" or "I ate lunch", you say "I have been" and "I have eaten lunch") and vocabulary (like gallereti* for a wrist watch - from the French "Quelle heure est-il?"), with different vocabulary in practically every village. In some ways, Swiss German is closer to English grammar than high German. Swiss German dialects are similar to the dialects spoken in Germany, but are spoken far more widely outside of formal settings.
* This happens the other way around. The French word for a skylight is "un vasistas" - straight from German "Was ist das?" = "What is that?".Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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German is in fact English spoken backwards, or vice versa.Originally posted by Mordac View Post
The Awful German Language“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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WGAFF?Comment
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