Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. Gesundheit!

2. No longer available due to copyright issues.
   Not knowing what it was about, I can only recount my own experience. Let’s start but saying that I don’t speak German.
   I moved to France for a new job, and was learning French.
   If you have ever learned a new language, you are probably familiar with the point at which for every new word you learn, you lose two from your native language. At this point you become somewhat desperate to hear your native language. In Paris there are always lots of tourists on the Metro, and you can pick out English speakers even when you can’t hear the words due to that cadence which is very different from French … Except that I was frequently fooled, and when I moved close enough to hear the words, I would often find myself listening to German.

3. The humorless bosch bastards took it down already for copyright infringement.

4. Found it again.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xUIDRxdmc

5. The blond with the crusty baguette has the softest whisper.

6. Hmmm … not well done. Anyway, German can be spoken smoothly and harmoniously, and French can certainly be spoken harshly and with authority – try listening to a French drill sergeant. HOWever, the characterisation is not completely false: try the first 30 seconds of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0OfWcXdV8
   Mind you, the “gentleman” spoke with somewhat of a lower-class Austrian accent.
   Here is a better or at least more German accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r0wHInYIpk,
   which modulates between a little bit casual, and more authoritarian.

7. Yeah well, back in the day I had French immersion….Legion style.
   Where once I recall the anglos I grew up with opining the French talked with their hands…..then I had the epiphany that English speakers appear to speak with their hands…to non Anglophones.
   When ya can’t understand the language you notice gestures more….
   Funny (queer not ha-ha) that.
   Google Sid Caesar…4 languages….
   Warning: avoid drinking beverages…..

8. French, Spanish, Italian and the other ‘romance’ languages are for making love. German, English, and Russian are for making war. Perhaps that’s why we’re so much better at one than the other.

9. This is simple.
   All other languages: “The Germans are coming,” they whispered.
   German: “The Germans are coming” they announced by loudspeaker van.

10. Languages change.
    When did avekkk get into French?
    Watching/Listening to the news in German on DW is a far cry
    from decades ago when two loud Bavarians voicing displeasure
    at each other would seem to use some sort of ear offending
    unintelligible mouth and nose noises.

11. Sounds like I’m glad we won the War.

12. I just laughed so hard! The wife ran over and then she started laughing (she is German)! Soo funny!

13. Notice they have drinks in front of them…which leads to the German colloquial wisdom:
    “Jeden Tag betrunken ist auch ein geregeltes Leben!”
    translation: Every day drunk, is also a disciplined life!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

14. German is one of those languages that if spoken loud enough and slow enough everyone can understand it. For instance the German word for airliner: DERGROSSFLAGENVAGANSCHMIDTDERSKULLSPLITTENSCEAMENSPITENZEPRIREOFFENZIEBACKUNDSMOKEN
    And now you know why English is the international language of aviation

15. Lame. Surprisingly unfunny. Takes all kinds I suppose.

16. I was in the US Army in Germany in the 1960’s. Lived in Bavaria on the Czech border. People there spoke Bayerisch (Bavarian). Virtually all words ending in harsh consonants were changed to end in vowels. Made the language so much nicer.
    Example:
    English – German – Bavarian
    Monday – Montag – Moda
    Tuesday – Dienstag – Irda
    Wednesady – Mittwoch – Micha
    Thursday – Donnerstag – Pfingsta
    Friday – Freitag – Freita
    Saturday – Samstag – Samsta
    Sunday – Sontag – Sonta