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Practicing my German #16 (permalink) Sat Dec 08, 2007 0:55 am   Practicing my German		  
no, the boss doesn't speak a lick of Deutsch.

(man I am full of questions)

How was the name "Deutschland" chosen for your country's name?

When you consider the old (alt?) tribes -- Saxons, Lombards, Burgundians, Franks (some were in Germany, right?) -- was there a tribe called the Deutsch?

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Practicing my German #17 (permalink) Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:43 am   Practicing my German		  
prezbucky wrote:
also, if you guys don't mind -- i've never taken a german class, so this will be news to me -- could one of you show me the conjugations (at least present tense) of the verb "to be"?

I think I know two of them:

Ich bin
Du bist


Hier geht's weiter, Tom:
http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_sein.htm


I was especially tickled that they went the extra mile to point out that "ihr seid" means "you (guys) are". Very Happy Laughing
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Practicing my German #18 (permalink) Sun Dec 09, 2007 21:35 pm   Practicing my German		  
Sank you, Amy!

Long time no read!

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Practicing my German #19 (permalink) Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:07 am   Practicing my German		  
Torsten wrote:
Hi Ralf,

This sounds like a quotation from a famous poet or even philosopher. Do you have any examples that prove the veracity of this statement?

Thanks,
Torsten

Hi Torsten,

I had no proverbial quote in mind, just meant to pass on some words of general wisdom Wink

In Germany, many people say "Wenn Du zum Weibe gehst, vergiss die Peitsche nicht!" Weib is an antiquated word for woman, so this sentence means as much as "Don't spare the whip when dealing with women!" This is a perfect example of how our societies are designed by men, particularly on a language level. It was Nietzsche who wrote "Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!" The literal translation is "You're going to (visit) women? Don't forget the whip!"

In Nietzsche's Zarathustra it was a wise old woman who told Zarathustra (the super human) to take along a whip in case he feels like visiting women. She gave him this piece of advice because it was obvious that he (pretty much like Nietzsche himself) had no idea about women, so that only a whip could make up for his lack of understanding. If you're interested, you can read the chapter on young and old women online. Unfortunately, the translation seems more archaic than the original text. And if you're really interested in Nietzsche, you should read Robert C. Holub's great essay
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