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Re: Language fun (was Re: High Speed...)
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Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:29:13 GMT
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Hi Andreas, Hi James (and all other readers as well!!)
> > Read you later,
>
> Is that what you call "Auf Wiederlesen"?
Well yes in a way! "Auf Wiedersehen!" is just used in spoken language. In
formal letters it will be "Mit freundlichen Gruessen" which means something
like "Yours sincerely" Or "Kind regards"...
What my idea was is to write Read you as word-turning from see you as an
informal english ending at the end of a letter/osting. Because in fact I can't
SEE the autor of the former posting (ok, I might see his/her posting). But I
can READ the posting later... You get this??
I remember reading a humorous book that translated everything
> literally from German to English. I believe it was called "English for
> Runaways" - Englisch für Fortgeschrittene.
Ah that one!! It's so great. But I think Germans will have the most fun with
it, because our language is very influenced by english/american words (e.g. all
the MC Donald stuff). If you bring it on top, you might say a wole german
sentence just using english words!! And it becomes more strange: Germans use
words which sounds english but the english language doesn't know the word in
the same meaning as the german meaning. E.G. "Handy" - the german word for
mobile phone!! It's "english" because of "hand" and the uncommon "y"!! Sounds
good, but non native english speaker will get it? Isn't "handy" an adjective
discribing something which is "easy" to handle or to do??
Once I have been in England for an exchange programm with the school. I spoke
english for runaways with some german friends and some english friends heard
our funny way of speaking. But, they couldn't get the sense out of it... So
english for runaways is quite difficult for english native speakers, if the
have no idea of the german language!
No lets make an very informal end:
Tschuess! (Bye, See you!)
Holger ...from Germany
P.S.
I'm surprised over myself, how many english words come back, after haven't used
them for a while... Thanks internet! (But I hope my english isn't too bad an
you get what I mean?)
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