MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi Jung, maybe I’ll miss the topic now, but if I change the headline a little bit, let’s say instead of “Paul McCartney: Favorite Beatles song” in “John Lennon: Favorite Beatles Song”, then it should fit again (and I can answer my own question: which song was John’s favorite?) 🙂
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Hi Jung, I hope you had a nice New Year’s Eve. The sale of New Year’s Eve rockets and firecrackers was prohibited in our country this year (for the second year in a row). That’s why I posted the video (that was my contribution to this year’s New Year’s Eve fireworks). I have no idea if fireworks shows were broadcast on TV. Friends visited us and we focused on popping champagne corks. That was very entertaining, too. 🙂
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For you space cowboys Jung, David, Tom and Bill I’m launching a whole special New Year’s Eve rocket. All the best for the future. May the force be with you !
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
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Hi Tom,
I just watched on youtube concert excerpts from 2018 in Philadelphia. It seems they still got it. The rock’n roll in their veins is still boiling. -
Learning is good, listening to music is almost even better. The following song has been presented here some times before, but it just fits the topic too well.
I will join Jung: Play it again Sam!
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A very nice idea Tom (even though I would have liked to sign the privacy policy beforehand).
Since you only live about 11 hours and 35 minutes away from me by plane, I won’t enter the whole address just to be on the safe side 🙂
Country: Germany / State: North Rhine-Westphalia (“Nordrhein-Westfalen”, that’s where most of us live, not in Bavaria as often wrongly assumed). That’s where I was born, that’s where I live and that’s probably where I’ll hand over the spoon („den Löffel abgeben“ / end my life).
Cheers and also to you Tom, all the best wishes for the new year !
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Yes, it is interesting what particles with such a small mass can do if they are only really accelerated once. Unimaginable when larger chunks are on a collision course. Does anyone of you know how high the probability is that a flying object traveling in space will hit small to medium-sized meteorites (even if the rest of space is pretty debris-free, as David mentioned)? Will LUCY and the James Webb Space Telescope have no more problems with this once they leave Earth orbit? Are collisions between spaceships and celestial bodies just an invention of science fiction literature or a real danger for space travelers?
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I didn’t mean to confuse you David. The suffix (die Nachsilbe) -le is not used in High German. As far as I know, it is a regional peculiarity (Swabian dialect: „Fischle“). The name Franzl is also not a derivation of the name Franz, but an independent name. Just like Franz, Franzl is a very old-fashioned name and is used in Bavaria and Austria (ask Mona & Lisa – maybe they have a Franzl in their circle of acquaintances). Interestingly, such old names are once again very popular with young parents. They call their children Paula and Emma or Hans and Paul again. That always irritates me a lot, because my grandparents were called Paul and Emma ( Paul, by the way, can be nicely changed into Paulchen. Paulchen McCartney) 🙂
It’s just like in the fashion industry: old trends are coming back.
By the way, I find it very interesting how the German and English first names are related, or what common origin they have. Even the surnames often tell their own story. I sometimes wonder if many US contemporaries actually know how their surnames were originally spelled or pronounced ?
I’m always sorry that I can’t be very helpful to you with grammatical questions, but I’ve always hated grammar lessons and successfully suppressed most of it. The luxury of having a good command of a language is that you no longer need language analysis. Something I can’t say about my English, unfortunately.
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Well observed David. There is a german peculiarity that consists of putting words into a cute form. For example: Tisch = Tischlein. What is actually meant is that this is a very small Tisch. A „Fischlein“ is a small or young fish. More examples: Haus = Häuslein, Kind = Kindlein (plural Kinderlein) and so on.
Especially in the corner of Germany where I was born (Ruhr Area), everything is put into a cute form. This is done by ending words with „chen“. E.g. Haus = Häuschen, Hase = Häschen, Baum = Bäumchen, Socke = Söckchen, Tisch = Tischchen, Glas = Gläschen, Blume = Blümchen. It works with a surprising number of nouns and I do it all the time (but only in my private sphere). Terrible. And yet: I like it.
And every dialect in German does this in its own way. If you hear someone saying that he lives in a „Häusle“ (Haus) and that his „Häusle“ has a „Dächle“ (Dach), or that he lives in a „Häusle mit einem Dächle an einem Bächle (Bach)“ you can be sure you’re dealing with a Swabian (a part of the federal state of Baden Württemberg, that is where the cars with the star are built).
Fun Fact: When a Swabian says “Adele” to you, he doesn’t mean the singer, but “Auf wiedersehen”. And when he says „Ha Noi“, then he does not mean the capital of Vietnam but it means something like “Oh, no!“ -
Cool David. I like it very much. Ernie was my favourite character in Sesame Street. That was also because of the German dubbing voice.
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A brilliant idea Jung: Tom comes over with drinks and some snacks („Pulle Bier und Schnittchen“ as we say) 🙂
PS: Do you really say “Kindergarten” ? How do you pronounce it ?
