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Sgt. Howard wrote:Of course he did- most German Verbs ARE nouns

And half of the nouns are practically sentences.

Actually, he said he just strung a few words together to make a new compound word...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:Actually, he said he just strung a few words together to make a new compound word...

To the uninitiated; the German word for glove is 'Handschuh'-('Hand- Shoe')- this is one of the simpler ones....

DOG: Das Barkenpantensniffer

DOGCATCHER: Das Barkenpantensniffersnatcher

According to Heinreich Schnibble.

years ago, we had 'basic german for pilots'..

trieungtagetbachondergrndmitautkraching = emergency landing

According to a friend of mine who was a UA pilot for many years-
At Munich airport, a German pilot was having a miserable time getting his instructions understood as his English was a bit shaky (English being the international language of air travel)- finally he blurts out, "I AM A GERMAN PILOT FLYING FOR A GERMAN AIRLINE LANDING IN A GERMAN AIRPORT!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH?!?"

A British dialect came over the airwaves calmly stating "Because you lost the silly war, you twit..."

Sgt. Howard wrote:According to a friend of mine who was a UA pilot for many years-
At Munich airport, a German pilot was having a miserable time getting his instructions understood as his English was a bit shaky (English being the international language of air travel)- finally he blurts out, "I AM A GERMAN PILOT FLYING FOR A GERMAN AIRLINE LANDING IN A GERMAN AIRPORT!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH?!?"

A British dialect came over the airwaves calmly stating "Because you lost the silly war, you twit..."

Great story.

However, i suspect, apocryphal, since i don't think anyone whose English was that shaky would be flying in international service.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:According to a friend of mine who was a UA pilot for many years-
At Munich airport, a German pilot was having a miserable time getting his instructions understood as his English was a bit shaky (English being the international language of air travel)- finally he blurts out, "I AM A GERMAN PILOT FLYING FOR A GERMAN AIRLINE LANDING IN A GERMAN AIRPORT!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH?!?"

A British dialect came over the airwaves calmly stating "Because you lost the silly war, you twit..."

Great story.

However, i suspect, apocryphal, since i don't think anyone whose English was that shaky would be flying in international service.

It does happen . . . people can pass the standardized test and then have trouble in the real world.

It's a bit unlikely that a german would fall into that, and even less likely that he would successfully cheat to pass, but a student pilot, OTOH . . .

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:According to a friend of mine who was a UA pilot for many years-
At Munich airport, a German pilot was having a miserable time getting his instructions understood as his English was a bit shaky (English being the international language of air travel)- finally he blurts out, "I AM A GERMAN PILOT FLYING FOR A GERMAN AIRLINE LANDING IN A GERMAN AIRPORT!!! WHY DO I HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH?!?"

A British dialect came over the airwaves calmly stating "Because you lost the silly war, you twit..."

Great story.

However, i suspect, apocryphal, since i don't think anyone whose English was that shaky would be flying in international service.

It does happen . . . people can pass the standardized test and then have trouble in the real world.

It's a bit unlikely that a german would fall into that, and even less likely that he would successfully cheat to pass, but a student pilot, OTOH . . .

--FreeFlier

But we're told he's flying for an airline, so he ain't one'a them.

True.

Reminds me of the one about a pilot landing at Hamburg, where the ground controllers are notorious for motormouth and expecting a perfect reception with no repeats no matter how complex and convoluted the instructions . . . the pilot requested two repeats, causing the ground controller to conclude an even faster instruction with "-haven't you ever been to Hamburg before, captain?!"

A very british voice snapped back "Yes. . . Thirty bloody years ago! It was dark and I didn't land!" (Thirty years prior would have been circa 1944, and some versions specify 1944.)

--FreeFlier

AnotherFairportfan wrote:DOG: Das Barkenpantensniffer

DOGCATCHER: Das Barkenpantensniffersnatcher

According to Heinreich Schnibble.

Likely from the same source-
Virgin: Gutentight
Vasoline: Weinerschlider

Sgt. Howard wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:DOG: Das Barkenpantensniffer

DOGCATCHER: Das Barkenpantensniffersnatcher

According to Heinreich Schnibble.

Likely from the same source-
Virgin: Gutentight
Vasoline: Weinerschlider

Nope. Mine was a couple of lines from "Mein Grosfadder's Wurtenbook" in a book from the Forties or so - probably Cinderella Hassenpfeffer and Other Tales Mein Grossfader Told Me. {"Probably" because there was more than one, but that's the only title i can recall.}

I keep hearing Jägers...

GlytchMeister wrote:I keep hearing Jägers...

ALWAYS. EXPECT. JAGERS.

Just Old Al wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I keep hearing Jägers...

ALWAYS. EXPECT. JAGERS.

The word 'Jager' is German for 'Hunter'- the portrayal of their dialect (to me) is Saxon or Hessian. Their attitude is Viking beserker.

"Vat?!? Chu chust t'ought ve kome outta tin air?!? 'Ob Sturm, oder sneidt, ob die Sonne uns lagt... der Tag glühen heiss, oder eiskalt die Nacht...' "
"Dimo, that's enough- "
"Vat chu mean, dot's enuff? Hy vas chust varming oop..."
"Your voice is like nails on a blackboard and you are tone deaf! Shut up already!"
"Hy never gets to haff any fun...."

Just Old Al wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I keep hearing Jägers...

ALWAYS. EXPECT. JAGERS.

AND the Spanish Inquisition!

--FreeFlier

And yet everyone gets that one wrong, apparently.

Alkarii wrote:And yet everyone gets that one wrong, apparently.

Well, you'd only hear about the ones that didn't expect it . . .

--FreeFlier

Yes, but NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

Although, if you did, you wouldn't be there when they arrived, so they wouldn't catch you... And may not know you were expecting them.

Ad expecting Ninjas...

Folks, I must take this moment to call for a self administered reigning in of our natural, yeasty like, Thread Drift and have us, each to ourselves, reign oin the Drift of Thread that both befalls us and is so much self indulgent fun...

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