Robert Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Evening All, Strange. I never had a problem. Just look for the pointy bits on the front.... Can't say I ever had a problem finding the girls. As Gordon says there are some distinctive features that I for one have always found tend to attract my gaze. Of course having found one there can then be serious challenges in progressing further... Which is of course, what I meant! Physically identifying them presents few problems - When it comes to progressing further, "serious challenges" has to be the understatement of the century :icon_lol: Had a reasonable day off today - went to the communication museum in Frankfurt, had lunch in Sachsenhausen and then called in at the Christmas Market on the way back to the station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SouthernRegionSteam Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2009 Very wise move :icon_thumbsup2: :icon_lol: Re 2010 challenge, I know I'm being 'got at' by 009Matt and Claude_Dreyfus on this, but you never know what might happen! Bag's firmly tied to keep the cats in at the moment! I'm sure having seen your imaginative skills (Re Lynnbottom) you can think up something. [TIC] I expect you'll either put in an entry, end up helping 009Matt, or both! Sounds like the cats are the aforementioned two people! [/TIC!] *Already out the door!* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2009 Dominik - I did a module during my French degree course on The Chivalric Romance and World of Arthur - including the Lais of Marie de France, and Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances. Always an area I found really interesting. I wasn't aware of German versions of the Arthur stories as well, but given they started in England and France in the 13th century (I seem to remember the name Geoffrey of Monmouth as well...), I shouldn't be surprised that there are German ones as well... Yes, Hartmann's "Iwein" is basically an adaptation of Chr?©tien's "Yvain ou Le chevalier au lion." We actually compared both works in one seminar as there are quite a few differences. Likewise, Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival" is an expanded version of Chr?©tien's never completed "Perceval" with about 2.5 times the number of verses. If you still have an interest in literature from this period, reading Hartmann's and Wolfram's works may be something for you . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2009 I wish I could enter a literary discussion but as my wife (very gently) points out I mainly read novels with exploding spaceships or submarines on the cover illustration. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Don't worry, Tony, the majority of my reading since uni has been Terry Pratchett, Hamish Macbeth, Doctor Who, Ian Rankin, Reginald Hill... I have to admit I've rarely read any "high" literature since! Dominik, think I'd have to read that in an English translation, my German isn't up to it. And even less so my medieval German! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2009 I find The Beano isn't what it used to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I find The Beano isn't what it used to be. (I'm not knocking the previous discussion - that comment just made me laugh!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 25, 2009 Dominik, think I'd have to read that in an English translation, my German isn't up to it. And even less so my medieval German! Not a problem - English translations are available, if I am not mistaken. But I wonder whether these editions also include the Middle High German original - should be interesting to compare this to modern English! It certainly is quite impressive to see the difference to modern German - especially considering terms and expressions which have completely fallen into disuse or undergone a significant shift in meaning. On another note, I do think it might be interesting to brush up my Latin. However, far as I know there has been a change in attitude as to its actual pronunciation. The teachers I had back then still adhered mainly to the Germanized pronunciation as it had long been taught during the 20th century, but more recent research appears to indicate there were actually many differences. One example I remember would be pronouncing "poena" like "poy-nah". In fact, I could well imagine colloquial Latin to have sounded a lot more lively and fluid than one might believe when looking at Roman literature and philosophical writings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I preferred The Dandy if I'm honest..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Beano here... Think the Dandy had really gone downhill by the time I was a nipper... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 25, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 25, 2009 I used to like Hotspur, Film Fun and The Eagle. I suspect I reached my intellectual peak very early and deteriorated thereafter. Swapping comics with friends must have been the 1950s version of file-sharing. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 "Bag's firmly tied to keep the cats in at the moment" That'll be the Old Kitty Bag in which to pack up your troubles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDMJ Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 "Bag's firmly tied to keep the cats in at the moment" That'll be the Old Kitty Bag in which to pack up your troubles. A purrfect, defurred repost, DD! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Good morning everyone. Good to see you back, Jam. I missed your daily cycling reports! Herewith todays wordless weather report; Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Morning All, Wow Don! What a view - certainly beats the view out of my office window which looks straight at the multi-storey car park! Not in the office again today, but feeling a bit on the miserable side this morning. I'll probably go for a ride once I've dropped the little guy at Kindergarten. Have a good day everyone :icon_wave: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted November 26, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2009 Morning ... One more day to go then! I typed up the first half of my notes for tomorrow's outline yesterday and will do the same for the second half later today. Should be a good way to re-reflect on them as well. Curiously, I'm not feeling as tense about the exam right now as I did earlier this week - so much the better, as I am sometimes worried about the range of different emotions I often go through before exams . On Monday, after I was done, I did have a very strong craving for silence and peace - unsurprisingly, considering I had been talking about complex subjects for one hour. Of course, that sort of silence is hard to get in a busy city, which made me rather agitated when I was more or less forced to overhear the conversations of others on the street and on the train, which I really had no interest for at all . You know that feeling? Also, as the exam was in English I was so deep inside this language that when my professor switched back to German at the end I did utter an English word in reply . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted November 26, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2009 Morning all a chilly start to the day. They do say exercise lifts your mood so I think you have sorted yourself out Robert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 I certainly find that a decent bike ride or a run lifts my spirits no end Robert, especially at this time of year. I must be endorphine dependent! ;-). Don, marvellous view and I'm sure I can see a couple od dassies cavorting on that mountain top! :-) Morning everyone! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted November 26, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 26, 2009 Hello all. The sky is turning from grey to blue now. I'm planning an outing to the recycling tip today. Apparently I may have a sore arm following last evenings swine flu jab but it seems OK at the moment. I've got to go back in three weeks for another one. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixoh8sixoh Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Morning all! About 3 oktas here, not too bad looking today - better than the last couple, at any rate!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 "I'm sure I can see a couple od dassies cavorting on that mountain top!" I wonder how many went to look (besides me) ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium eldavo Posted November 26, 2009 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 26, 2009 Morning All, A scattering of oktas but an expanse of blue sky in evidence. I seem to remember regularly getting a comic called something like Century 21. I think that puts me in Tony's camp with the exploding spaceships and stuff. It was a spin-off from the Gerry Anderson TV programmes if I recall. Lots of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Stingray and Thunderbirds. I suspect it sticks in my mind as I won a prize in a competition, not the first prize which would have been some fantastic plastic something but a runner-up prize of a jigsaw puzzle! Cheers Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonBradley Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 "I'm sure I can see a couple od dassies cavorting on that mountain top!" I wonder how many went to look (besides me) ? Do you mean this one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Better than nowt Dave. I can remember that comic myself, I think it was called 'TV21', later to give its name to a late '70s band if I remember right! And Don, that's him, he was behind that big boulder on the left of tne ridge. You wouldn't think his big cousin was an elephant, would you? Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Feeling quite a bit better now. I dropped the little guy off and headed straight off on my bike, just as the silvery fingers of dawn were touching the Eastern sky. I returned 35km later with blue sky and sunshine and feeling a little less miserable. My, those Dassies are odd looking things! I did go back to look, and thought I saw one. However, it turned out to be a speck of dirt on my monitor :icon_lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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