How to catch a German spy

Homicidal_Squirrel

Adventurer

• Jun 12, 2014

• #1

Make them say squirrel.

 

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Kramodlog

Naked and living in a barrel

• Jun 12, 2014

• #2

Lulz.

 

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Zombie_Babies

First Post

• Jun 12, 2014

• #3

I bet sober people would have done a li'l better.

 

Homicidal_Squirrel

Adventurer

• Jun 12, 2014

• #4

Zombie_Babies said:

I bet sober people would have done a li'l better.

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When have tout ever met a sober German?

 

Scott DeWar

Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure

• Jun 14, 2014

• #5

In WW 2 the Hollanders used the greeting Guten tag, where the Dutch use a soft g and the Germans a hard g. The Germans were never able to pronounce the soft g so were instantly identified. This was to foil the SS inquisition against Jews.

 

MarkB

Legend

• Jun 14, 2014

• #6

I'll take those pronunciations over the single-syllable "skwerl" I've heard in American movies any day.