From: Dave Smith on
Martin wrote:
>
> O
>
> >I'm sure we are the only poeple on the planet that have made this
> >observation.
>
> About people in south Germany almost certainly.


I commented on it after my trip there several years ago, and being a native
English speaker I appreciate that they were extremely hospitable to us in a
language that was foreign to them.
From: Jens Arne Maennig on
Fishkill Bill wrote:

> Here are the places we visited:

> Heidelberg-Bacharacher

Bacharach
> -Cologne

K�ln
> -Bremen-Hamburg-Wittenburg

Wittenberg
> -Berlin-Potsdam-Dresden-Nuremberg

N�rnberg
> -Rothenburg-Nordlington

N�rdlingen
> -Neuschwanstein-Munich

M�nchen
> -Oberommergau

Oberammergau
> -Peiting-Donauworth

Donauw�rth
> -Nordlington

We had that one before.
> -Dinkelsbuhl

Dinkelsb�hl
> -Anbach

Ansbach
> -Nurmberg

Remember N�rnberg?
> -Bamberg-Schonbrunn

Sch�nbrunn
> -Burgebrach-Werzburg

W�rzburg
> -Schwinberg

Schweinberg (Why would anybody visit Schweinberg, BTW? Since they
where building a bypass in the 70s, I never had this idea.)
> -Tausberbeschofsheim

Tauberbischofsheim
> -Rottingen

R�ttingen
> -Creglingen-Heilbrann

Heilbronn
> -Dieburg-Dormstadt

Darmstadt
> -Buttelborn

B�ttelborn
> -Grob-Gerau

Gro�-Gerau
> -Frankfurt.

> We would have to say the cities are quite unimpressive.

Unlike these cities, your orthography is very impressive.

Jens


From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on


Martin wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:56:03 -0400, Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>>The people we met are Germany were not "unfriendly" to us in any way.
>>We just get a kick out of when my husband would smile and say good
>>morning to someone we encountered while walking down a street, they
>>were rarely respond in any way.
>
>
> If that happened to you in Bavaria too, it must be a personal problem . Maybe
> you were mistaken for pickpockets? Maybe the people weren't German.
> Of course if you smile and say good morning to everybody in a busy shopping
> street you might be mistaken for idiots or a candid camera crew. When you sat
> down at a table with strangers in a restaurant or a bar, did they speak to you
> or ignore you?

Maybe the people they greeted didn't speak English? (It WAS
Germany, after all!) ;-)

From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on


Martin wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:10:09 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
> <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Martin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:56:03 -0400, Cathy L <lederer123(a)optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>The people we met are Germany were not "unfriendly" to us in any way.
>>>>We just get a kick out of when my husband would smile and say good
>>>>morning to someone we encountered while walking down a street, they
>>>>were rarely respond in any way.
>>>
>>>
>>>If that happened to you in Bavaria too, it must be a personal problem . Maybe
>>>you were mistaken for pickpockets? Maybe the people weren't German.
>>>Of course if you smile and say good morning to everybody in a busy shopping
>>>street you might be mistaken for idiots or a candid camera crew. When you sat
>>>down at a table with strangers in a restaurant or a bar, did they speak to you
>>>or ignore you?
>>
>>Maybe the people they greeted didn't speak English? (It WAS
>>Germany, after all!) ;-)
>
>
> Normally they greet you first and plenty of Germans speak English.

"Plenty" of citizens in almost ANY European country speak
some English - But it's strange how easily they forget it,
when accosted by arrogant Ameircan tourists who address them
in English without even bothering to learn the basic
pleasantries in the "official" language of the country!
From: S Viemeister on
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
>
>
> "Plenty" of citizens in almost ANY European country speak some English -
> But it's strange how easily they forget it, when accosted by arrogant
> Ameircan tourists who address them in English without even bothering to
> learn the basic pleasantries in the "official" language of the country!

But we don't know whether they actually said 'good morning' or 'guten
morgen'.