Der, die, or das?
Feb. 7th, 2006 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
“Test: Der, die, or das? Choose the correct article.”
*runs screaming into the night* Gah!
Also, is it OK that I tend to giggle when I see words like die Lebensmittellieferung? A “sesquipedalian” word is a long one, a foot-and-a-half long, to take the meaning literally. I guess in German one-and-a-half feet long is just getting started.
*runs screaming into the night* Gah!
Also, is it OK that I tend to giggle when I see words like die Lebensmittellieferung? A “sesquipedalian” word is a long one, a foot-and-a-half long, to take the meaning literally. I guess in German one-and-a-half feet long is just getting started.
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Date: 2006-02-07 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-07 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-08 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-08 12:15 am (UTC)And the long words... I think, we love them. German Authors like Thomas Mann liked to use long words to form even longer sentences.
*thinks of a long word*
"Rotationsviskosimeter"... that was the thing in my lab that sends the samples flying around! :)
BTW, #Filkhaven was fun yesterday night!
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Date: 2006-02-08 07:02 am (UTC)(Huh, is it really "ein?" Gah!)
#filkhaven was fun, yes.
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Date: 2006-02-08 08:45 am (UTC):)
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Date: 2006-02-08 12:38 am (UTC)It's kind of interesting that when faced with a need to explain a new concept, French strings together a long phrase with all the little connecting words to make it totally grammatical, English strings together a short phrase by making nouns function as adjectives and such, and German runs all the needed words together into one blob.
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Date: 2006-02-08 06:29 am (UTC)Tee-hee, from LEO:
to break a speed limit: eine Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung überschreiten
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Date: 2006-02-08 12:23 pm (UTC)There's a nice song (from the TV-Show "Sesamstraße" - I think that one's nicked from US tv) which starts:
"Der, die, das,
wer, wie, was,
wieso, weshalb, warum?
Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm!"
I always think of it when articles are mentioned...
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Date: 2006-02-08 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-11 05:41 am (UTC)Yes, it is. :)
And we get a lot from you (if not the actual shows than at least the concepts). The best thing we ever got was "Remmington Steel", I guess... *swoons*
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Date: 2006-02-12 10:56 am (UTC)