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From: Jerry Avins on 23 Nov 2009 11:22 John O'Flaherty wrote: ... > It's really terrific how words evolve. That's great (i.e., large). Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
From: Stormin Mormon on 23 Nov 2009 18:06 Ursula, 80 + years old, lives across the street from me. Krew up in Chermany (vatt she schaze). I will do my best to remember to print this off, and go ask her. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Stupendous Man" <spam(a)trap.com> wrote in message news:7mrj94F3ipu9nU1(a)mid.individual.net... While we are on the subject, while cleaning out Mom's house and identifying antiques, i came a cross a crystal Seder set she bought in Germany in the early 50s, that was old then. Translation of the etched words on Babelfish gives me nothing that has any meaning. The jug says "dieser krug ist gemacht dak man judbelt und lacht doch in geheimer kammer schlaft katzenjammer" on glasses it says, "bei speil und bier schmeckt's pfeifchen mir" Anyone know what it means? -- Stupendous Man, Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty
From: Stormin Mormon on 23 Nov 2009 18:10 And get coded in song "Our God is an awesome God" will be sung for years. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "John O'Flaherty" <quiasmox(a)yeeha.com> wrote in message news:700lg594gorqt4c8grvi2qp1pi4b5eqdfc(a)4ax.com... > > And it started as a good English word, to describe > something as >inspiring Awe in a person. Such as an Awesome Church. It's really terrific how words evolve. -- John
From: Marte Schwarz on 24 Nov 2009 08:30 Hi, > Ursula, 80 + years old, lives across the street from me. May be she can remember this :-) > antiques, i came a cross a crystal Seder set she bought in > Germany in the early 50s, that was old then. Must have been very old even in the early 50th. > Translation of the etched words on Babelfish > gives me nothing that has any meaning. Thats because it is not actual german. This kind of german was either spoken few hundred years ago or it is kind of a very special patois. I'll give a try - and hopely I'm better than Babelfish :-) > "dieser krug ist gemacht dak man judbelt und lacht doch in this pitcher is made for rejoice and laughing. But in > geheimer kammer schlaft katzenjammer" secret chamber (behind the doors in private flats) sleeps hangover > "bei speil und bier schmeckt's pfeifchen mir" The meaning of "speil" is not clear for me. Could be game or in former german it was used for suckling pig roasted over a fire. I guess the suckling pig is meant here. (sitting) by suckling and beer I enjoy smoking my pipe. Regards Marte
From: Jim Wilkins on 24 Nov 2009 09:42
On Nov 24, 8:30 am, "Marte Schwarz" <marte.schw...(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Hi,... > > > Translation of the etched words on Babelfish > > gives me nothing that has any meaning. > > Thats because it is not actual german. This kind of german was either spoken > few hundred years ago or it is kind of a very special patois. > > Marte I lived in Heidelberg for a while, then Heilbronn (near Stuttgart) where they speak Schwaebisch instead of comprehensible German. Even in cosmopolitan Heidelberg some of the locals had a thick accent, for instance one gave me directions across the old bridge as "uba da brick". Clocks and crockery with those cutesy slang sayings filled the gift shops, apparently for local rather than tourist consumption since many celebrated "memories of my (military) service time". I didn't ask when or where. Thanks to either Nixon's cutback or my two years learning German I went there instead of Vietnam, and as a network repairman drove around alone quite a bit and needed to talk to the locals and Bundespost (phone line) personnel. How do you say "intermodulation distortion" in German? I got them to correct the line equalization to work with our Bell 202 type modems but it took a while. Very few GIs really liked the place; several of my friends re-upped in order to return to Saigon. jsw |