Castle Aching

[Regularity]

Dankesehr.

(Autocorrect managed to delete a verb!)

Pfälzsch is probably closest to my German accent anyway!

[Northroader]

Thank you, gentlemen, what a tangled web we weave. Did anyone follow Miles Kington’s books on the use of Franglais, which I found an absolute hoot. I’ve never come across any equivalent German mis use.

Edited June 26, 2019 by Northroader

[Andy Hayter]

Pfaelzisch - pronounced locally as Pelzisch - is a godsend to people like me where all of the declantions:

Der, die , das, die

den, die, das, die   etc

 

becomes

de, de, de, de  etc

 

About 2 years after moving to Germany (Pfalz) our company formed a joint venture with a Hessisch company.  At the following Christmas party 2 senior managers were required to read the same Christmas story, but in the others dialect.  Frankly I hardly understood a word.

[Andy Hayter]

24 minutes ago, Northroader said:

Thank you, gentlemen, what a tangled web we weave. Did anyone follow Miles Kington’s books on the use of Franglais, which I found an absolute hoot. I’ve never come across any equivalent German mis use.

We already have had good examples - Gefingerpoken for example.

 

[St Enodoc]

3 hours ago, Dana Ashdown said:

Could you say that in German mein herr?

Vorsprung durch Technik.

[St Enodoc]

1 hour ago, Andy Hayter said:

Pfaelzisch - pronounced locally as Pelzisch - is a godsend to people like me where all of the declantions:

Der, die , das, die

den, die, das, die   etc

 

becomes

de, de, de, de  etc

 

About 2 years after moving to Germany (Pfalz) our company formed a joint venture with a Hessisch company.  At the following Christmas party 2 senior managers were required to read the same Christmas story, but in the others dialect.  Frankly I hardly understood a word.

My German has a strong Hessisch accent, due to spending two months in Frankfurt on a school exchange. Several years later I convinced a chap in a bar in Zurich that I was born and bred in Offenbach-am-Main. We were both quite well-oiled...

Edited June 26, 2019 by St Enodoc
speling

[Compound2632]

26 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Offenbach-am-Main. 

 

I was once much delayed on a journey from Paris to Legnica by the failure of the overhead catenary at Offenbach-am-Main.

[Edwardian]

I have a dog that would be better named Offenbach.

[Compound2632]

1 minute ago, Edwardian said:

I have a dog that would be better named Offenbach.

 

Can he do the canine can-can?

[Edwardian]

She. 

 

She mainly does shake, shake, shake your booty 

 

 

[RedGemAlchemist]

2 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Can he do the canine can-can?

Probably better than my cats can.

[Nearholmer]

Useful Small Talk For Ambassadorial Receptions

 

 Item 214. The Offenbach-am-Main Opener

 

 I was once much delayed on a journey from Paris to Legnica by the failure of the overhead catenary at Offenbach-am-Main.

 

Note: If Transport Ministers or Senior Railway Officials are present, great caution should be exercised regarding the use of this Opener.

 

 

Edited June 26, 2019 by Nearholmer

[teaky]

8 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

My German has a strong Hessisch accent, due to spending two months in Frankfurt on a school exchange. Several years later I convinced a chap in a bar in Zurich that I was born and bred in Offenbach-am-Main. We were both quite well-oiled...

My French has a German accent.  I was once talking to a Frenchman in Switzerland who thought I was from Luxembourg.

[corneliuslundie]

Not to worry. My Welsh has a strong Albanian input - I don't suppose many people can claim that! My wife and i know when we have inserted an Albanian word in a Welsh sentence by the expression on the face of our Welsh teacher.

Jonathan

 

[Edwardian]

Indeed, and sadly my magyar is rendered almost incomprehensible by the strong East Belfast accent that I don't have ...

[teaky]

I am told that Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish are sufficiently similar that if you speak one of them it is easy to learn the others.  So you could be almost incomprehensible across a large area of eastern europe.

[ianathompson]

Hungarian, Finnish and Basque are supposedly related, despite, almost, covering the extremes of the continental mainland.

 

I have made extensive use of these in "developing" Marrongacan, the language of Marrongaco province on the AFK.

I do possess a Finnish dictionary as I have railway books in the language but it is easier to use Google translate.

 

A post graduate friend married a Finnish girl and has spent his working life at Helsinki University.

I occasionally get a Christmas and New Year card in the language!

 

When asked about learning Finnish he informed me that it is just a matter of rote learning but at least the language is phonetic.

As usual, many Finnish people speak fluent English, although he claims that his two sons are part of a very small Finnish Norwich City fans club.

 

Ian T

 

 

[RedGemAlchemist]

I sometimes have a twinge of a Cork accent, but that's understandable as I do actually have some Irish blood in me (my grandad on my mum's side is from Blarney.) 

I do turn Scottish whenever I try and do Russian though. 

Edited June 27, 2019 by RedGemAlchemist

[corneliuslundie]

Helsinki has, or at least had, commentary on the open-top tour buses in Latin. I am not sure how much demand there is.

Beware, though. Finnish has the delight of vowel harmony - one vowel in a word can change to suit another. and multiple endings piled one on top of another.

The only word I remember is Kitos - spelling? = thank you.

Jonathan

[wagonman]

4 hours ago, teaky said:

My French has a German accent.  I was once talking to a Frenchman in Switzerland who thought I was from Luxembourg.

 

Oddly enough my (German) in-laws tell me my German has a French accent. On the rare occasions I dare use it...

[corneliuslundie]

I assume that everyone in this parish has read the latest LB&SCR Modellers' Digest. If not, it is well worth it. Another excellent issue. See the thread in this section of RMWeb.

Jonathan

[Edwardian]

17 minutes ago, corneliuslundie said:

I assume that everyone in this parish has read the latest LB&SCR Modellers' Digest. If not, it is well worth it. Another excellent issue. See the thread in this section of RMWeb.

Jonathan

 

Downloaded waiting to be read over lunch today.

[St Enodoc]

5 hours ago, teaky said:

I am told that Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish are sufficiently similar that if you speak one of them it is easy to learn the others.  So you could be almost incomprehensible across a large area of eastern europe.

...and absolutely everywhere else in the world.

Edited June 27, 2019 by St Enodoc

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

Helsinki has, or at least had, commentary on the open-top tour buses in Latin. I am not sure how much demand there is.

Beware, though. Finnish has the delight of vowel harmony - one vowel in a word can change to suit another. and multiple endings piled one on top of another.

The only word I remember is Kitos - spelling? = thank you.

Jonathan

The only words/phrases you need in any foreign language are:

 

1. Where are the toilets?

2. My friend is paying.

[webbcompound]

1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:

The only words/phrases you need in any foreign language are:

 

1. Where are the toilets?

2. My friend is paying.

 

And of course you might then need to understand the answer:

poshtë rrugës, të majtën e parë, të shkoni nën urë dhe ata janë në të djathtën tuaj