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From: Markku Grönroos on 3 Oct 2007 06:30 "Jens Arne Maennig" <maennig.0708(a)cricetus.com> kirjoitti viestiss�:nemoWed100307122447(a)cricetus.com... > tim..... wrote: >> My friend used to say Gruss Gott to everyone, despite the >> fact that he knew it was wrong in most parts of the country. > >> He claimed that it emphasised the fact that he was a foreigner. > > I used to do that in the former GDR. I was young and I needed the > attention. > What attention?
From: Cathy L on 3 Oct 2007 07:38 On 2 Oct 2007 18:41:11 GMT, Jens Arne Maennig <maennig.0708(a)cricetus.com> wrote: >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 > Sorry, I don't really get your point. Cathy
From: Cathy L on 3 Oct 2007 14:09 On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:04:55 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >Jens corrected your spelling so that when you next mention any of these places >you will be able to spell them correctly. > >By the way how was your meeting with your long lost relatives? Bill wasn't very correct with not adding the umlauts and all. I do think everyone got the drift of where we went though. Obviously it was just an attempt to make fun of him. I don't think there is a lot of difference between Cologne and K�ln, do you? My possible relatives were not home when we went to their house. I left a bunch of "family tree", papers in their mail box. Along with our e-mail address. We have been exchanging pictures for the past week. We are not positive of the connection, but it looks like we might be related. Cathy
From: Andy Pandy on 3 Oct 2007 15:26 "Cathy L" <lederer123(a)optonline.net> wrote in message news:5ul7g3dsv30v6sprmo4jrivcketgb3unr9(a)4ax.com... > >Jens corrected your spelling so that when you next mention any of these places > >you will be able to spell them correctly. > > > >By the way how was your meeting with your long lost relatives? > > Bill wasn't very correct with not adding the umlauts and all. I do > think everyone got the drift of where we went though. Obviously it was > just an attempt to make fun of him. I don't think there is a lot of > difference between Cologne and K�ln, do you? Like the difference between Germany and Deutschland. You obviously should have titled your post "Trip to Deutschland". -- Andy
From: Lennart Petersen on 3 Oct 2007 16:07
"Cathy L" <lederer123(a)optonline.net> skrev i meddelandet news:5ul7g3dsv30v6sprmo4jrivcketgb3unr9(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:04:55 +0200, Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: > >> >>Jens corrected your spelling so that when you next mention any of these >>places >>you will be able to spell them correctly. >> >>By the way how was your meeting with your long lost relatives? > > Bill wasn't very correct with not adding the umlauts and all. I do > think everyone got the drift of where we went though. Obviously it was > just an attempt to make fun of him. I don't think there is a lot of > difference between Cologne and K�ln, do you? > No. Cologne and Nuremberg are both correct spelling in English. I didn't include them in the 15 out of 35 misspelled names. But was it Wittenburg or Wittenberg ? Quite different places. And the whole story is a joke... right ? |