Re: WAY OT: Any German speakers?

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:01:40 +0100, Nils Tanner <ntanner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Blonks
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> got it all completely wrong and wrote:

From now on I suggest that we refer to doofuses on this groups as
'Nilpferds' - images from Reggie Perrin come to mind !

Or Nilpferde, to be grammatically correct. OTOH, they're doofuses, so
Nilfpferds is probably better. Oh the irony...

Pah - stoopid non-English languages! In fact English is not even my
first language, as I come from Yorkshire ;-)

Technically, I could argue that German isn't my first language either,
but Swiss German fills that spot....Although this may lead to heated
discussions with other people...

And then an invasion of Poland. Yes, we've heard it all before.

Cheers - Jaimie (who prefers the German-speaking side of
Switzerland to the French and Italian bits - Grindelwald FTW!)
--
"So overall I don't think either you or I got it right, which is
still doing better than average for a Usenet exchange"
-- J Nebus, rasfw
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