Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:09:18 +0000 From: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Language Barrier [Was: Could FreeBSD be ...] Message-ID: <l03110701b0969a0c43c3@[172.16.99.31]> In-Reply-To: <19971118002231.VS01973@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117002710.5225A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Nov 17, 1997 01:26:22 -0800 <24684.879743950@jkh.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117002710.5225A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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At 12:22 am +0100 18/11/97, J Wunsch wrote: >since you Americans have borrowed quite a number or German >words, like "kaput" (although misspelled, we spell it with a >double-t), "fahrvergnugen" (also misspelled since you don't have >umlauts, nor could you speak them anyway ;), or the worst of the words >German exported into any language, "blitzkrieg". Oh, I think you underestimate this Jörge. How about "Hamburger" or "Frankfurter"? Even JFK described himself as "ein Berliner" which I understand is a kind of do'nut :). Now if he'd been "Berlinerisch" the cold war may have ended even sooner <grin> Regards Robin.
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