|
| Headline | Born for the 2nd place... |
|
Page:
[1] |
| Author | Comment |
Bodo
Jan-21-2009, 17:58 GMT
Austria
 | Hey, I just have seen that Simpsons episode with the Art Garfunkel reference. Funny.
On stage : Garfunkel...and 2 other musicians. Topic: Born for the 2nd place (or ´as the 2nd best´)
:-)
Well, a german newspaper understood it wrong and wrote: "At a Simpsons episode Art Garfunkel is mentioned as the 2nd best musician ever"
http://www.welt.de/kultur/article752133/Art_Garfun
kel_und_die_Kunst_des_Wanderns.html
ouch...
|
| | |
Cher
Nov-05-2010, 19:01 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | I noticed a great difference in the
German spoken in Germany and in Austria. I only learned phrases and got
along fine. But the funniest translation was the cover of their TV
listings. The top movie was "Was Cowboy, Now Nun! |
| | |
Bodo
Nov-06-2010, 12:32 GMT
Austria
| ??
You are right Cher, some translations are very strange - best example is One Trick Pony.
But I have no clue what movie that should be ´Was Cowboy, Now nun´ - thats a mix of english and german.
I think it is really sad that especially young people are so happy on giving up their own language in Germany/Austria. It is so cool for them to watch all movies and TV-series in English now (german translations is always available). Allthough if I ask them, they even have to agree that they do not understand everything. They just do it because it sounds so cool (they say), and some jokes are not lost in the translation. Well, makes no sense to me, if you do not understand parts of it, then you also might not understand all jokes and references to US-stars/people...
Anyway: Germans (Austrians too) are not proud of their language anymore. That is really sad. The amount of anglicisms is growing - in the advertisements they even use words most people do not understand. Worst thing I ever have read:
"Hallo, wir sind die neuen Smoothies. Wir sind so soft und innocent."
3 anglicism in those 2 short sentences.
I am pretty sure that the mass of people do(or did) not know the word ´innocent´. They just used it because it is cool to use english words. I hate it absolutely. I hate it even more than the word smoothie, it sounds like a ton of sugar to me.
|
| | |
Cher
Mar-05-2012, 15:43 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Reading German translations in Austria can sometimes be
very funny. I can remember a tv Guide headline movie was
called. "Once cowboy, now nun. |
| | |
Klausi
Mar-06-2012, 09:25 GMT
Germany
 | For all interested in German language I recommend the book "Woher kommt das schwarze Schaf?" by Wolfgang Seidel.
You will realize, how many words in our languages come from the Egypt, Greece, Romans and the arabic cultures and from cultures not existing anymore.
One should also consider that our languages have about three or four times more words than 150 years ago, when no computers, trucks or steel or oil or or or...existed or were of relevance.
If you would read an original German story from the time before around 1800 you would be surprised because of bad quality. French was the favorite language in Europe. Even some stories by Goethe or Schiller in the original version are hard to understand.
Good to know that all doctors or biologists etc. in the world use Latin as common language... |
| | |
Jochen
Mar-06-2012, 12:17 GMT
Germany
| You´re right, Klausi. 10000 years ago, German and English once were the same language. You recognize it when you compare words like the English "town" and the German word "Zaun". They sound similar and they once were the same word. It´s the same with e.g. English "timber" and German "Zimmer" (from "zimber"), English "horse" and German "Ross" a.s.o.
You see, language is like a cool, cool river... |
| | |
Klausi
Mar-06-2012, 14:36 GMT
Germany
| Yes Jochen, and music (f.e. from Paul Simon) is the universal language... |
| | |
Carol
Mar-06-2012, 15:25 GMT
Unknown
 | I believe that German is the most beautiful of languages, although I do not speak or write it well. My grandmother spoke it as a child, but it is not spoken much here any more, although some of our Amish neighbors speak a German dialect. Years ago as a young single person, I moved to a big city and was befriended by an elderly German refugee, who took in stray young people and taught them German language and culture. I still have some of her books! |
| | |
Bodo
Mar-06-2012, 16:05 GMT
Austria
| Hm, I do not think so :-)
German has a better sound than most eastern languages and I do not like the sound of asian languages (chinese, japanese...)
But I definately think all romanic languages like italian, spanish, french, portugese sound much better.
A real problem about the upper-german language is that you can not sing it very well. It only sounds good if you change to strange accents, sing like they did in the 1920´s or talk in a rap style and pronounce some words in a different way..
Oh and btw: I´ve found a internet radio station playing strictly Old jazz, and sometimes a speaker starts a long monologue in a unknown language to me. It sounds great. I´s like a meditation. It´s the person who speaks I guess who has the most influence on it. Sounds like scandinavian to me but I could be completely wrong, all I know is that I never understand any word, not even names of musicians... |
| | |
Carol
Mar-07-2012, 14:49 GMT
Unknown
| I have heard jazz is a U.S. art form but you hear a lot of jazz from European countries and have for many years. |
| | |
Mike
Mar-08-2012, 02:23 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| This is true, Europeans have taken jazz and made it something very unique. Take French influenced jazz for example, it´s a very mellow sounding genre and well worth listening to. |
| | |
io
Mar-08-2012, 23:58 GMT
Italy
 | For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd
ed&v=5qVq1qpEfGA
:) |
| | |
Klausi
Mar-12-2012, 10:57 GMT
Germany
| By the way, Toots Thielemans, Belgian, getting 90 on April 29 this year, is still on tour. |
| | |
|
Page:
[1]
|