Hive: Musings about Crothian

[Darkness]

It does?

You don't mean the monkeys, do you?

Gah, that's old skool Hive. Better to let sleeping monkeys lie, as it were.

 

[Crothian]

It does?

You don't mean the monkeys, do you?

no, but there is only a one in a thousand chance per visit to the boards that you will actually see it or something like that. Granted with as many people that come here per day lots will see it.......

 

[Knight Otu]

In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum?

I struggled hard not to include that in my post...

 

[Darkness]

I struggled hard not to include that in my post...

I suspected as much so I figured I'd ask.

 

[Terath Ninir]

In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum?

Tranlation of the joke? Or would that just make Baby Jesus cry by killing teh funney?

 

[Jdvn1]

And the german dialects are worse then the english dialects. the german ones are basically new languages unlike the english ones.

Have you ever seen My Cousin Vinny? English dialects are basically other languages.

http://yourdictionary.com/library/drlang009.html

 

[Crothian]

Have you ever seen My Cousin Vinny? English dialects are basically other languages.

Not really. There are a few exagerated examples. I've friends from Boston and they have the accent and it is not that tough. My grandparents lived in the deep south and again the accents were easy to understand.

But I've seen not just native Germans, but people who are language majors who have studied the language run up aginst dialects that befuddled them.

 

[Jdvn1]

Well, that article is written by a doctor of Linguistics. There are all sorts of weird things out there.

 

[Crothian]

Ya, but personal experience trumps a gerneal article written on the net in my book....

 

[Jdvn1]

Heh. I've heard lots of English accents I couldn't understand, in my experience. Since experience conflicts, I think the phD trumps.