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Re: Any good modern sticktones?
paigan0 wrote:
Since Das Troll got Das Boot (which is horrible German--"the boat"?--but sounds cool in English),
Der Troll hat das Boot. Would be correct. But sorry Steve, this makes no sense in german But probably an interesting title for your mandelbulber project
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Re: Any good modern sticktones?
Gerald wrote:
paigan0 wrote:
Since Das Troll got Das Boot (which is horrible German--"the boat"?--but sounds cool in English),
Der Troll hat das Boot. Would be correct. But sorry Steve, this makes no sense in german But probably an interesting title for your mandelbulber project
Ha! I swear, I was gonna make a joke about not knowing the sex of the TapperTrollFlash, and thus not knowing whether to use Der, Die, or Das with the Troll! But I thought that grammar jokes were a stretch far enough, and German grammar jokes would be even further.
"Der Troll hat Das Boot Geborkin" sounds almost German. Geborkin of course being the verb "to receive a boot for being a racist Git," but it's low German, or middle-to-the-left Deutsche.
And then you threw in Mandelbulber. I always need good fractal titles, and German sounds very fractally as a language, with the Mandelbrots and all. But most of the dev team is German or Polish and speaks German (and/or Polish), so I can't use made-up German titles like:
"Deine Mutter hat meine fleishe gegessen," which does NOT mean "Your mother has eaten my meat," or it does, but not in the way that GI's stationed in Germany who learned it from locals think it does.
--Frau Blucher was my German teacher, Steve
Adds: My first composition for official recital in music school was titled in fake German to sound like a Bach chorale: "White cows drink milk slowly," and I'm embarrassed to say I've forgotten the fake German. I was also a 3rd-year (of 4!) German student at the time.
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Re: Any good modern sticktones?
paigan0 wrote:
Adds: My first composition for official recital in music school was titled in fake German to sound like a Bach chorale: "White cows drink milk slowly," and I'm embarrassed to say I've forgotten the fake German. I was also a 3rd-year (of 4!) German student at the time.
Your story reminds me of this now-famous stand-up story...
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