Why Germans Don't Play Scrabble
Feb 1, 2016 17:48:04 #
Feb 1, 2016 20:30:44 #
SteveR wrote:
Can you imagine the German Scrabble dictionary?
So true. Learned this while learning German in the Army language school and while living there. Sometimes it can be a paragraph.
:lol: :lol:
Feb 2, 2016 10:57:33 #
Schwabo
Loc: Florida
From the Donau "Ursprung" Beginning.
William J Renard wrote:
Are you a Schwab from Germany or a Donauschwab? :) :D
Feb 2, 2016 13:34:59 #
My family name comes from Triebswetter in the Banat. Now called Tomnatic. The whole town was imigrated from Lorraine,
at the time of Maria Theresa, we left Rommania in1947, my mother
came from Austria in Burgenland
at the time of Maria Theresa, we left Rommania in1947, my mother
came from Austria in Burgenland
Feb 2, 2016 14:49:23 #
William J Renard wrote:
My family name comes from Triebswetter in the Banat. Now called Tomnatic. The whole town was imigrated from Lorraine,
at the time of Maria Theresa, we left Rommania in1947, my mother
came from Austria in Burgenland
at the time of Maria Theresa, we left Rommania in1947, my mother
came from Austria in Burgenland
My parents, who were of German descent as opposed to Romanian, left Transylvania in 1942, moved to Austria where I was born (Salzburg), and then to Canada in 1951. So my heritage is Transylvanian Saxon. My wife and I can still speak Saxon, as can our older son (the younger gave up at an early age). There are not many in the world today who still speak the language, and it has many subtle variations depending on what village you came from. I am still a member of the Transylvania Club in Kitchener. Herman Oberth, the father of space travel and mentor to Werner von Braun, was a Transylvanian Saxon.
Small world, eh?
Feb 2, 2016 14:54:23 #
JohnFrim wrote:
My parents, who were of German descent as opposed ... (show quote)
My wife's uncle taught at Transylvania University here in the states. I take it there is some connection to the European Transylvanians.
Feb 2, 2016 15:01:16 #
SteveR wrote:
My wife's uncle taught at Transylvania University here in the states. I take it there is some connection to the European Transylvanians.
Could be. My son is now the expert on our heritage, so I would have to check with him.
Feb 2, 2016 16:14:24 #
You go under the heading of Donau Schwab, the area was under Austro-Hungarian rule till the end of World War 1, when it was
ceeded to Rommania, our culture religion etc., is different from
Rommania. After the war we where persecuted thrown out of our houses and some of us sent to Gulags. We got out in 1947, and had to leave grandad there, they murdered him by beating him and throwing him into the woodshed, where the old man died.
ceeded to Rommania, our culture religion etc., is different from
Rommania. After the war we where persecuted thrown out of our houses and some of us sent to Gulags. We got out in 1947, and had to leave grandad there, they murdered him by beating him and throwing him into the woodshed, where the old man died.
Feb 4, 2016 22:28:05 #
Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. ???
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France (Surprise!) Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.??
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. ???
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France (Surprise!) Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.??
Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
Apr 15, 2016 13:28:56 #
DAVE FISHING wrote:
Reasons why the English language is so hard to lea... (show quote)
You'll find that all your examples given, apply to any other language as well. In other parts of the world, the English language is known as the easiest of all languages to learn!
Apr 15, 2016 13:58:53 #
Schwabo
Loc: Florida
Negative William, I come from the area where the Donau starts.
William J Renard wrote:
You go under the heading of Donau Schwab, the area was under Austro-Hungarian rule till the end of World War 1, when it was
ceeded to Rommania, our culture religion etc., is different from
Rommania. After the war we where persecuted thrown out of our houses and some of us sent to Gulags. We got out in 1947, and had to leave grandad there, they murdered him by beating him and throwing him into the woodshed, where the old man died.
ceeded to Rommania, our culture religion etc., is different from
Rommania. After the war we where persecuted thrown out of our houses and some of us sent to Gulags. We got out in 1947, and had to leave grandad there, they murdered him by beating him and throwing him into the woodshed, where the old man died.
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