Reply to: German Rant

[Pondlife]

They have.

My first contract in Germany, I stayed in Hamburg. Eppendorfer Lanstrasse Nr 22. Numbers 24 upwards were brick-built bomb damage replacements. Number 24, the first one in the rebuild, was a pub. It was called the "Winston Churchill". Tell me that's not a sense of humour.

My old flat was on Husumer Str

[Tarquin Farquhar]

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

They have.

My first contract in Germany, I stayed in Hamburg. Eppendorfer Lanstrasse Nr 22. Numbers 24 upwards were brick-built bomb damage replacements. Number 24, the first one in the rebuild, was a pub. It was called the "Winston Churchill". Tell me that's not a sense of humour.

[Mich the Tester]

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

They have. They speak English and laugh at you when you're not listening.

[Spacecadet]

I might have thought this was British Rail, not Deutsche Bahn.

Even though my experience of the German Train system is limited, there is no way on this earth I could ever mistake it for the British system

[VectraMan]

Is that a new PC term for 'crap but turns up to lessons'?

Yes.

I'm still at the waking up screaming stage. Ich gehe in die Kneipe, but ich bin in der Kneipe. Madness. Trying to form a simple German sentence is harder than The Krypton factor.

No wonder they have no sense of humour.

[OwlHoot]

That's the Germans for you. Why use 8 letters for a word when you could use 30. Spelling tests must be a nightmare for German kids and ContractorDE must simply be full of spell check police!

If you think German is bad, what about Polish?

Sometimes I think Poles must be the smartest people on the planet, to be able to master their diabolical spelling. But then arguably they are the stupidest for inventing it in the first place.

[Paddy]

I prefer Germanwings

Is it that time of month?

[Mich the Tester]

I may only have reached improvers level German, but isn't that rant in English?

Is that a new PC term for 'crap but turns up to lessons'?

[chef]

experience of munich - cologne direct, 4.5hr journey, friday afternoon/evenings

1st attempt - half the train didnt arrive in munich so I had to stand all the way as reservation was in non-arriving part
2nd attempt - arrived 1hr 20 late
3rd attempt - no issues
4th attempt - arrived 40 mins late

I prefer Germanwings

[shaunbhoy]

I think we should leave the organisation and running of all european railways to the Germans. Say what you like about them but they have an impressive track record for transporting people from all across europe on the trains without losing too many.

[VectraMan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8519246.stm

"Mr Aschenbrenner had come to the conclusion there was just too much English on the German railways.

"At the railway station, a woman in front of me was unable to operate the ticket machine because the word Cancel was on the display. She pronounced it in the German way tsan-tsel and she asked me 'what is tsan-tsel'?

"And I got a little bit angry why Deutsche Bahn doesn't use German expressions for this."

Franz Aschenbrenner believes the phrase Service Point is too confusing, the expression Kiss and Ride too idiotic. So he wrote to his local member of parliament. "

I may only have reached improvers level German, but isn't that rant in English?

[BoredBloke]

That's the germans for you. Why use 8 letters for a word when you could use 30. Spelling tests must be a nightmare for German kids and ContractorDE must simply be full of spell check police!

[NotAllThere]

tsan-tsel would be spelled zanzel, not cancel.

But what was wrong with "abbrechen"? That's what I get on the popups in my German version of XP.

[HairyArsedBloke]

He'd love living round here - many signs don't even use the same characters as German or English.

[doodab]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8519246.stm

"Mr Aschenbrenner had come to the conclusion there was just too much English on the German railways.

"At the railway station, a woman in front of me was unable to operate the ticket machine because the word Cancel was on the display. She pronounced it in the German way tsan-tsel and she asked me 'what is tsan-tsel'?

"And I got a little bit angry why Deutsche Bahn doesn't use German expressions for this."

Franz Aschenbrenner believes the phrase Service Point is too confusing, the expression Kiss and Ride too idiotic. So he wrote to his local member of parliament. "

I do feel a bit sorry for the ones who can't press the little german flag button to get it back into their own language.

I like the idea of Kiss and Ride. Sounds like the perfect way to pass a long train journey.