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On 16/07/2020 at 13:40, Nearholmer said:

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Wie Komme ich am besten zum Bahnhof bitte? Ich moechte gerne ins Castle Aching gehen.

 

 

You are walking down the railway line?  Gehen Sie entlang der Gleis?

Better to take the train.  Am besten fahern Sie mit dem Zug.

 

Gehen = too go on foot

Fahren = to go or travel by alternative means.

 

 

Edit:  Due to extreme brain fade  I have written fahren where I should have written reisen.  Put it down to senility and now 8 years since having to speak German in anger.

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Русский медведь, как обычно, хотел бы поставить свою лапу на все это.

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On 16/07/2020 at 19:26, Annie said:

Ich bin jetzt sehr verwirrt........

Das kann ich gut verstehen.

 

Annie said she was confused and I can understand that.  I rather oversimplified the situation - by a wide margin.

 

Gehen can mean to go in a more general sense than I indicated.  Ich gehe nach London im Urlaub - I am going to London on holiday - does not indicate that you intend to walk. 

 

However asking how to get to the railway station and then using gehen instead of fahren does suggest walking.  

 

As for bl***y Russian:  I could never get my mind round completed and continuous travel and the use of the correct verb.  Especially when incomplete movement can be in the past.  

 

Edit:  again fahren should read reisen.

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1 hour ago, rocor said:

Русский медведь, как обычно, хотел бы поставить свою лапу на все это.

I thought that as soon as I saw Nearholmer's photo, but I was too polite to raise it.

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1 hour ago, rocor said:

Русский медведь, как обычно, хотел бы поставить свою лапу на все это.

 

But did they have snow on their boots?

 

To be polyglot...

 

Rwy'n credu y gallech chi fynd heibio Caerdydd a Wrecsam a Crewe, oddi yno i Benbedw a gofyn am gyfarwyddiadau pellach yn Bidston.

 

(I'm just trying to delay their arrival...)

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Notice that, quite correctly, the starboard leeboard has been deployed to ensure that the dinghy proceeds in more or less a straight line...

 

Naturally, a firm hand on the tiller is required.  :O

 

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Am I to understand that my German marine stands accused of being Russian, as well as of intending to walk the length of the WNR?

 

(never again shall I have a wager with myself about how long I can keep that picture of JA in a dinghy from appearing)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Compound2632 said:

Well, as nobody's risen to it, I suppose it falls to me

Thank you, Stephen.

I bet a few things have risen as a consequence...

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3 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

(never again shall I have a wager with myself about how long I can keep that picture of JA in a dinghy from appearing)

As I am new to this, err, "parish", might I ask of the significance of a apparently 1940s woman, who goes by JA, sailing in a dinghy? 

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24 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

As I am new to this, err, "parish", might I ask of the significance of a apparently 1940s woman, who goes by JA, sailing in a dinghy? 

Just wait until someone brings up Australian waterholes!

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37 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

As I am new to this, err, "parish", might I ask of the significance of a apparently 1940s woman, who goes by JA, sailing in a dinghy? 

Oh  my welcome there are many pages of history in this thread (do you like a long read ?) which  will may explain all 

 

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1 hour ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

As I am new to this, err, "parish", might I ask of the significance of a apparently 1940s woman, who goes by JA, sailing in a dinghy? 

Filmography:

 

The Railway Children

Walkabout

Logan's Run

Equus

 

etc.

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