Stavesacre21

Don't we got literate forums for this?



Kann nicht sagen, dass ich Klingon spreche. Wo ist es des Ursprungs?


Trauen Sie sich ich frage, was ein knuppel ist?

saturn

Why is everyone speaking German? Isn't the original poster posting in French?

andone

spricht hier eigentlich überhaupt jemand deutsch?

Socr8tes

Nein!

saturn

Than specifically what does the German word "Bonjour" mean in English?

Socr8tes

The word "forums" also appears. So I guess the OP was posting in English, huh?

Red Devil

Yep, German is a Germanic based language, as is English and Dutch, etc...

French, is a Romance (Latin) based language, like Italian and Spanish, etc...

boffam

iTrader: (1)

That's Latin...

nu2rx8

That's what I was getting at. The original post is a German/ French 'collabo'.

Bonjour miteinander. Wollte mich vorstellen, nettes Forum habe gefunden indem ich nach "Forums" gesucht habe.. Und finds ganz interessant hier.. Salut, Jara

...Four french words in there:
Bonjour
interressant
hier
Salut

NoTears316

So... what nationality was Potsy Weber on 'Happy Days'? Was he Italian? Was Potsy just a nick name?

Socr8tes

"Interessant" and "hier" are German as well...

Stavesacre21

Wahrscheinlich nicht



saturn...

The reason why it's so funny to begin with would be because a small part of the original post is in french, the rest in german. I'm not really sure if this person knows exactly what they're talking about or not.

Your guess is as good as mine

saturn

Well, it's certainly not German if you're using French to say "hello" on a forum almost entirely framed in English.

I guess I was more making a comment about the quality of responses. I was hoping there'd be less "ooh, ooh, I know <insert language here> -- here's my chance to look cool" and more people poking fun at the hodge podge nature or at least anything quasi-original. At least some people had the common courtesy to reference David Hasselhoff in their replies.

Winfree

Bonjour is a French or Latin based word - Bon is good ; jour is day - to walk for a day would be a journey.


In old German history, the area of the Alsace-Lorraine was claimed by both the Germans and the French - thus both languages were spoken there, thus there is sometimes a state of confusion...



To help translate bad puns in three languages

A Knuppel is also, in German: a Verein, or a Klub

The mixed pun would be translated into the Japanese expression "oni-ni-kanabō",
Which means an invincible person, a very determined person, 'strong beyond strong', or sometimes, a Troll with a Club!

andone

so to clear things up:

interessant = german
intéressant = french
hier = german for here
hier = french for yesterday
Knuppel = no german word, at least its not used anymore, it might have been long time ago...

saturn

This thread fails. I'm going to go eat some Freedom Toast and punch the environment.

Winfree

Lost your Berlitz German English dictionary (Worterbuch)?

The German Knuppel was a ‘head banger’, a cudgel, bat, or club, often reinforced with metal. It was a weapon during the middle ages, and peasant soldiers, who were not noble enough to be allowed swords and knives, and sharp pointy things, were permitted to run around with Knuppels. The term appears in German folktales such as: "Tischchendeckdich, Goldesel, und Knuppel aus dem Sack". The term was also applied to a satirical German magazine, that was published back in the 1920s. It is the surname for a number of Grman families and it is the name of a current German music group.

It is a German word closest word to the Japnese: Kanabo

Kanabō (also called a tetsubo when translated into English in Japanese cartoons), is a staff or club reinforced with iron or steel once used in feudal Japan as a weapon. It was constructed out of heavy oak wood, and covered with some form of metal from the end to the middle, with metal studs along the metal-shod end. It was used to break the legs of horses and smash people on the head .Because of its sheer weight, only a few soldiers dared to carry it. Japanses mounted knights and calvery valued their horses and did not want to risk valuable live stock in facing one. It was more of a mythical weapon, often used in tales by the great Japanese demons, trolls, or "oni, (or uni)”

Bringing this all back to 8s, Mazda has been discribed by some other Japanese car manufacturers as a "Demon with a Club", meaning it seemed to be unstopable.

nu2rx8

Ahhh, now me thinks it makes sense... Thanks!

Stavesacre21

and on these notes, i bid this thread farewell.

Krankor

au revoir!

Krankor

Aw damn, I hate it when it decides to break the page right when you're responding to the immediately preceeding post....

andone

No I didn't

Knuppel = not a german word, if you would talk to a german guy, he wouldn't understand.

Knüppel = german word, I agree, but the ü is very important in this word, otherwise it doesn't make sense...

Winfree

Glad you were able to find translation

Sorry, I using old computer version of Word and it lacks a lot of things - like ".. "

It's sort of like that really bad joke "Why were Nancy and Ronald Reagan like an old IBM typewriter?

No period, no colon, no memory....

However, as I check the Berlitz dictionary I find that Knuppel (accent marks over the u)
is tucked in between Knuffen (no accent marks) -meaning to punch
and
knusprig (no accent marks) meaning crispness or ease in breaking

You might have been able to find it, in a written search rather, than by asking about it with a bad accent.... (which could lead to problems as it could sound rather naughty)!


Actually I thought the stumper would be the German word for sea urchin converting into the Japanese word for troll because there is a double meaning, just as in English, where an urchin can be a little prickly sea animal, or a tough little street child.....

I will admit it is hard to play with puns in four languages, not counting Klingon.

"May the farce be with you!"

andone

well i guess we cleared this up - and by the way, i dont need a dictionary, i do speak german