So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[2jakes]

ROTZGÖRE!!

Bestimmt!

 

[BlueTrain]

Since English is a Germanic language, one would think that it would be easier to learn than other languages. Some of the words are the same, word order is the same and so on. But I just can get past the fact that "auf" means "on."

 

[ChrisB]

The main obstacle to English speakers is German grammar, which is modeled on Latin. With four cases, three genders and plural, something as simple as "the" becomes quite complicated. Pronunciation, on the other hand, is simple compared to the idiosyncrasies of English.

 

[Harp]

The main obstacle to English speakers is German grammar, which is modeled on Latin....

Naturlich, in a moment of insanity, I once registered for an 08:30 AM German class then had to grapple with grammar at night.

 

[ChrisB]

Naturlich, in a moment of insanity, I once registered for an 08:30 AM German class then had to grapple with grammar at night.

When I studied German in high school, I never thought about it, I just did it, it came easily to me. When I try to read German now, I am always trying to understand the grammar, and end up getting nowhere.

 

[Trenchfriend]

SONDERANGEBOT !!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Sehnsucht


Dies wird die letzte Trän’ nicht sein,
Die glühend Herz-auf quillet,
Das mit unsäglich-neuer Pein
Sich schmerzvermhrend stillet.

O laß doch immer hier und dort
Mich ewig Liebe fühlen,
Und möcht’ der Schmerz auch also fort
Durch Nerv und Adern wühlen.

Könnt’ ich doch ausgefüllt einmal
Von dir, o Ew’ger, werden !
Ach, diese lange tiefe Qual,
Wie dauert sie auf Erden !

 

[ChrisB]

SONDERANGEBOT !!

Gesundheit!

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you like to research something on the internet, open a new tab and forget promptly, what you liked to research!

 

[St. Louis]

Mine süsse bleiche

Schwammigweiche

Wasserleiche

I don't know who wrote that little poem, but it's quite a memorable image.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Aaah, AOR-music is still so good, when Grace Slick is in it!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Old ladies who douse themselves in an an acrid "woodsy" perfume that smells like a cross between undiluted Pine Sol and that stagnant water in the Christmas tree stand. I don't know what the stuff is, but it's very popular, and it absolutely reeks. Maybe they're just sweating out the gin.

 

[GHT]

I don't know what the stuff is, but it's very popular, and it absolutely reeks.

Camphor.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Old-fashioned rheumatism camphor-salve.

 

[Stearmen]

I was thinking today, how often people do small kind acts for me, and I to them! Acts such as, letting me onto the street in front of them, holding the door, or letting me walk in front of their car. I would say, on a given day, for every jerk, there are at least five nice people.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I was thinking today, how often people do small kind acts for me, and I to them! Acts such as, letting me onto the street in front of them, holding the door, or letting me walk in front of their car. I would say, on a given day, for every jerk, there are at least five nice people.

I'm born in 1984. I can't remember when or from whom, but anyhow, I learned the old virtue "not to let the door clap before someones nose!"

And "You should NOT hinder travellers!".

 

[Trenchfriend]

Oh man, I'm honest!
I finally drove to this one supermarket and grabbed further three doublepacks of these wonderful Slazenger-licensed boxerbriefs! The seemingly last three M-size packages, they got.

Man, they are so so good! They are fitted absolutely correct and of course, they are sport-boxerbriefs and so, they are definitely "well conceived". It feels great, when you are walking. And the thinner, more breathy cotton is of course fine, too.

That's the reason, why Slazenger was so famous in the older days of sports!!
That's the difference between a simple massmarket-boxerbrief and special, well conceived sports-underwear!

And I tell you, they are even more perfect as the original Calvin Klein-boxerbriefs!

And now, I got eight pieces of them. Life's good.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Since English is a Germanic language, one would think that it would be easier to learn than other languages. Some of the words are the same, word order is the same and so on. But I just can get past the fact that "auf" means "on."

You think that's bad, the Bahasa word for water is "air".

 

[BlueTrain]

I had French in high school, so I didn't have to take any language in college (except, ironically, more English). But the only advice I ever received about going to college was to get all my classes first thing in the morning. Worst advice I've ever received.

 

[Stearmen]

Well, I see Photo Bucket is trying to shake down a lot of us, for the right to post photos to this sight!