What is awesome in German?

I interpreted the question as how face-to-face dialogue is represented in the literature, which has little if anything to do with how people actually speak. Presentations and slides have a different purpose than to represent actual dialogue.

The presentation I make are given in English, which is the professional language around here. I can't remember the last time I gave a presentation to a Norwegian-only audience.

Rune

I once met a guy (I'm not sure where he was from) whose name was spelled "Kjell", and pronounced, "Shell."

Cheers! Rich

Isaac Asimov once said that if the telephone had been invented in Germany, it'd be a "Fernsprecher."

I once saw that on the TV show "Batman"

Cheers! Rich

That -is- the German word for it, though the Germans I knew said "Telefon".

The story is that when the Kaiser was told about the new invention he asked, "But what is it called in German?"

jsw

On the short-lived TV reincarnation of "Mission Impossible" a female killer was tracked by her perfume, "Camion".

It sounds nice, but in French it's a big diesel truck.

Den tings can totally go ta heck, eh?

Voice examples of the dramatic change in the various language when combined under pressure and 30 feet of snow.

Your welcome, eh?

Gunner

"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" Unknown Usnet Poster

Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls. Keyton

Would they have less trouble talking if they kept more of their teeth?

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Gosh, so understated, so stark. You have devalued yourself.

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"judbelt".

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Getting close. My high school German is too decayed to directly help, but my American is damn decent. But what is left of my Deutsche saw the pun.

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Much closer. Still missed the pun indicated by the glasses.

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Thanks, that helps with the pun.

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A treasure trove. Sounds like many museum grade items.

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Literally, "Wir konnen alles" comes out as "we know it all". Perhaps "we understand it all", "except high German". The mountain / plains dichotomy.

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Oh Damn. I seem to have mislaid much of the differences between konnen and vissen.

And 'kennen'.

jsw

Getting close. My high school German is too decayed to directly help, but my American is damn decent. But what is left of my Deutsche saw the pun.

Hello Joseph,

There is a rhyme in the sentences.

(gem)acht (l)acht

(K)ammer (j)ammer

Best regards, Helmut

Combinations of letters to make new sounds are common im many languages. Modern Greeks call the letter we call " delta" "thelta" as in "then". Theta makes the sound in "thin". Representing the initial sound in "double" is done with a diglyph that I forget. The sound 'b' as in beer is rendered with mu/pi/

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Jerry

A flintlock uses flint to make a spark. A matchlock uses a smoldering match (slow fuse) to set off the powder. A cap lock uses percussion caps. The lock consists of the moving parts of any muzzle loader. The skills needed to make one are those of any locksmith.

Jerry