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amar
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by amar » Thu May 27, 2004 3:59 am
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by GaryKelly » Thu May 27, 2004 4:36 am
Pants... blocked by corporate security
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
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by Goldie » Thu May 27, 2004 4:37 am
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by Azathoth » Thu May 27, 2004 4:54 am
Amar,
Wieso denn "OT"?
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by amar » Thu May 27, 2004 7:22 am
Azathoth wrote: Amar,
Wieso denn "OT"?
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sag mal az, biste echt von hamburg??
na, OT, weil es off-topic ist! oder etwa nicht?
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by amar » Thu May 27, 2004 7:24 am
GaryKelly wrote: Pants... blocked by corporate security
check at home, if you can, gary, it's quite...ehmmmm...funny.
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by Pat Cannady » Thu May 27, 2004 9:02 am
#1 most useful German phrase:
"Ein bier, bitte".
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by GaryKelly » Thu May 27, 2004 9:14 am
"Zwei bier, bitte" is better
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
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by BrassBlower » Thu May 27, 2004 9:14 am
GaryKelly wrote: Pants... blocked by corporate security
Pants, indeed!
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by GaryKelly » Thu May 27, 2004 9:19 am
BrassBlower wrote: GaryKelly wrote: Pants... blocked by corporate security
Pants, indeed!
Mwa-ha-ha... there are ways and means... For those blocked by Corpsec, try this link:
http://www.gjk2.com/stuff/german.swf
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
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by Steven » Thu May 27, 2004 9:26 am
Amar, what the heck do you know about German? You're Swiss! They don't speak German in Switzerland. Oh sure, they claim to, but I've been there, and that ain't German!
Or did you just learn it in school like I did?
Steven
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by Zubivka » Thu May 27, 2004 9:49 am
GaryKelly wrote: "Zwei bier, bitte" is better
Brings my only German ethnic joke:
"Two martinis, bitte!
— Dry?
— Nein, zwei, dummkopf!"
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by amar » Thu May 27, 2004 6:26 pm
Steven wrote: Amar, what the heck do you know about German? You're Swiss! They don't speak German in Switzerland. Oh sure, they claim to, but I've been there, and that ain't German!
Or did you just learn it in school like I did?
Steven
steven, well, german and swiss....it's like oxford english and american english...it is similar...any swiss will understand a german...perhaps not visaversa...
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by Jack » Thu May 27, 2004 6:37 pm
amar wrote: any swiss will understand a german..
Even those who speak Italian and French?
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by Zubivka » Fri May 28, 2004 3:58 am
Cranberry wrote: amar wrote: any swiss will understand a german..
Even those who speak Italian and French?
Or Romansch, the fourth official language, but historically the first with the founding cantons.
(However kinky, your new avatar cracks me up, btw. Brings back memory of old British ads ("drinkapintamilkaday") with their "Pinta man". Is the New Age motto Drinkapintamilkagay?