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Re: What's Your Favorite German Word?!
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Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:37:27 GMT
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"Todd Thuma" <thumat@gactr.uga.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I was listening to National Public Radio All Things Considered when a • segment
was aired that had me laughing outloud.

Apparently, in Germany they are holding a contest for the German's • Language Most
Pleasing Word.

Here the story at:

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1953191

So what is your favorite German word?


Mine is "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft"    ;-)

Because it's one of the german words, many german speaking people cannot
pronounce !

It's a company which drives ships along the danube-river in europe.

In the past this word became whery famous because of it's hardness to shout
out - even for me it's still funny when a fall over it ;-)

Michael



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(...) What about "Streichholzschachtel" (sorry if I got the spelling wrong...) which, according to my sources, means "matchbox" -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 20-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)

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I was listening to National Public Radio All Things Considered when a segment was aired that had me laughing outloud. Apparently, in Germany they are holding a contest for the German's Language Most Pleasing Word. Here the story at: (URL) what is (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)

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