Alisaura
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Ye gods, are you serious!?! Jimmy Barnes is in the curriculum???! *speechless*Axver said:
Oh, hi Screwtape
I keep meaning to read that book...
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Oh, hi Screwtape
I keep meaning to read that book...
hmmmm...sounds like beale street, but in town form. that whole street smells like a combination of piss and horse shitAxver said:
KhanadaRhodes said:
i used to do that too, just randomly insert english in a sentence when i didn't know how to say it in german.
My friend and I invented "Gerglish". Wir had gross funnen mit our Deutsch und Englisch.
that reminds me of a story in my first year of german. we were translating basic sentences, and someone had to translate "ich weiss." the guy was like "i'm....white?" everyone cracked up. and of course now there's the whole arrested development thing too, although that wasn't on yet
OH GOD THIS REMINDS ME OF DUMB AUSTRALIANS.
Ali probably knows what I'm talking about. There's some brand of chocolate or something advertised on TV here called Weiss. They call it "weese". I shit you not. I cringe every time.
Alisaura
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Re: i remember learning a song with those words in high school
Entschuldigung? (=sorry?)
(I always get these words confused)KhanadaRhodes said:bitte sprechen sie langsamer
Entschuldigung? (=sorry?)
coolian2
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Axver said:
That just reminded me of another story.
I took Japanese in my first year at high school. I no fucked idea what was going on, neither did my mate. I got about 5/100 in the final test and he got 3/100.
The teacher wanted us to treat the classroom as thought it were a plane and keep our bags out of the aisles.
That same friend of mine copied me in a social studies test and got a higher mark when i went back and changed an answer that i'd originally got right - that started my policy of NEVER changing answers in tests or exams
Alisaura
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Axver said:
Schriben? Or is it schreiben....
My German dictionary is at work. Long story..
hahaha!!! there's a grocery store up on the east coast called weiss, and i have no idea how it's actually pronounced (because i'm sure it's not pronounced right anyway) and i've heard it pronounced weese, whyss,Axver said:
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coolian2 said:
Did they show you the emergency exits too?
please speak slowlyAlisaura said:
Alisaura
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KhanadaRhodes said:
that reminds me of a story in my first year of german. we were translating basic sentences, and someone had to translate "ich weiss." the guy was like "i'm....white?" everyone cracked up. and of course now there's the whole arrested development thing too, although that wasn't on yet
My favourite German-fuckup anecdote:
Start of second year, the teacher asks us to say in German what we did on the holidays... I'd been to a dinosaur dig, so I tried to say something like "I was digging up bones" ... the word for "bone" is "Knocken"... I got confused and said "Knaben", which I believe is "small boy".
The look on the teacher's face was priceless.
coolian2 said:
One of the people in my class one day yelled out "HI WALRUS....oh shit, that's not his name!" and ran like hell.
In our first year the storage closet was considered his personal room because he got sent there so much.
We called all of our teachers by their nicknames to their face, but they were fairly stock-standard Aussie nicknames: Johnno, Robbo, Thommo, Queenie ...
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Screwtape2 said:
The front door down some dodgy looking steps or the back door which i think opened right out onto a thick garden of trees and a 5 foot drop
Axver said:
probably. all i know is when we got up to the traffic light before the light my work building is on and he went straight and i went right, i tore down that street. i know doing 60 in a 45 isn't good, and i saved myself like 10 seconds, but it made me feel better 
Alisaura
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I got what you said (although I learned it as "Sprechen Sie doch langsam, bitte")... I was trying to apologise for speaking too quickly.KhanadaRhodes said:please speak slowly
Alisaura said:
My favourite German-fuckup anecdote:
Start of second year, the teacher asks us to say in German what we did on the holidays... I'd been to a dinosaur dig, so I tried to say something like "I was digging up bones" ... the word for "bone" is "Knocken"... I got confused and said "Knaben", which I believe is "small boy".
The look on the teacher's face was priceless.
that's hilarious!
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Shrubberies? WHERE?!
Screwtape2 said:
I love all kinds of poetry so I would have loved it. Maybe there will be units on me some day seeing as I'm getting published. I'm kidding of course.
Or am I?
Somehow I suspect you and pub rock of the style of Cold Chisel wouldn't mix.
Actually, I don't mind Khe Sanh all that much, it's one of their more tolerable songs. And yes, Ali, I'm not shitting you. I couldn't believe it either. After a fortnight, with my exceptionally slow and difficult English class, it got very, very old.
Oh, and I was going to comment on your LJ post, but congrats on the upcoming publishing, Screwtape.
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Axver said:
We called all of our teachers by their nicknames to their face, but they were fairly stock-standard Aussie nicknames: Johnno, Robbo, Thommo, Queenie ...
Haha, the only one we ever got away with calling to his face was the same cool teacher who i'm meaning to catch up with....Mr G, usually said with a thick Pacific Island/NZ hip hop accent.
Others like Fothers, Walrus, The Chicken we weren't going to get away with.
oh, lol no you were fine, i was just saying one of the other sentences i could think of off the top of my head.Alisaura said:I got what you said (although I learned it as "Sprechen Sie doch langsam, bitte")... I was trying to apologise for speaking too quickly.
coolian2
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Alisaura said:
My favourite German-fuckup anecdote:
Start of second year, the teacher asks us to say in German what we did on the holidays... I'd been to a dinosaur dig, so I tried to say something like "I was digging up bones" ... the word for "bone" is "Knocken"... I got confused and said "Knaben", which I believe is "small boy".
The look on the teacher's face was priceless.
That's one hell of a holiday
Alisaura
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Weiss bars... they're like ice cream or something.Axver said:
Delicious, but mispronounced.
Mind you, I got told that we're all pronouncing "Subaru" wrong... apparently the emphasis should be on the middle syllable... suBAru.
Alisaura said:
Ye gods, are you serious!?! Jimmy Barnes is in the curriculum???! *speechless*
Oh, hi Screwtape
Remember, I went to high school in Queensland. Barnsey's probably the height of intellectual knowledge there. I think Copernicus and Galileo's discoveries haven't yet filtered through to the Gold Coast ...
k i'm off. be back soon peeps
coolian2 said:
You got owned.
I wasn't too bad at Japanese, but I frankly found it boring and was very happy to switch to German.
Ouch. Yeah, I never checked my answers. I figured they weren't going to change anyway. And hey, I topped four subjects. So there must be something in my method!
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Axver said:
We called all of our teachers by their nicknames to their face, but they were fairly stock-standard Aussie nicknames: Johnno, Robbo, Thommo, Queenie ...
Those are the worst nicknames I have ever heard. Who in their right mind calls their teacher Queenie?
Alisaura
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Ni! Ni!liamcool said:
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Yeah, sameKhanadaRhodes said:
We learned to sing that "Ich bin Auslander" song to the tune of.... I think it was "she'll be coming round the mountain"....
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