A Little Game

[Teenr0cker]

No, idiot. You must not know that War is not here. That is for him.
I translated that all by myself =)

Ich kann nicht findet (finden?) meine Hosen. Wo isst meine Hosen?
Probly messed up the genders. oh well.

Deine hosen bist am du. Und du musst spricht mit eine "e" wann du hast eine erste-personne verb. (Ie: Ich habe. Ich glaube.)


I most of the endings for most verbs now. It gets easier.

[Rorschach]

Thanks for the pointers. Stopped taking German after freshman year, b/c they quit offering it. So I'm quite rusty.
Ich habe vergessen meine Deutsch.

[Teenr0cker]

I like saying this one:

Shutzengrabenvernichtungsautomobile.


(Hint: Break it into 3 smaller words first)

[Fredric]

Vad är det här för sätt?

Shutzengrabenvernichtungsautomobile

In swedish I think that would be "förstörelsegrävmaskin" (vad nu det är) but I have no idea how to translate it to english.

[Teenr0cker]

Let me break it down for you: Firstoff, its obvious that automobile is a cognate, a word that means and sounds the same thing in another language. That leaves "Schutzengrabenvernichtungs". I made a mistake in saying there were three parts since I mistook schutzengraben as one word when there were really four. "Schutzen" means to shield or protect. "Graben" means Ditch or trench. And "Vernichtungs" means annihilation or destruction. Protective Ditch Destruction Automobile.

If any of you are familiar with the first world war, then the purpose of such a tank would become instantly clear. For those of you who don't know, WWI was all about trench warfare: Go from your trench to an enemies trench and try to take them out. This required going over "no mans land" which was where you had to be crazy to stand around in for long. What made NML so bad to hang around in were the mortar rounds going off, the land mines, the mustard gas raids, and, obviously, the hail of bullets from the newly developed mounted machine gun. To gain an upper hand, Germans develped a tank specifically made to be able to fire rounds that could penetrate the earth a short distance before going off. When fired at an enemy trench or bunker...well, we all know what happens there...

[Glenn47]

raro = strange

Rare and strange are essentially the same thing in Spanish.

[Greatchickenman]

raro = strange

Rare and strange are essentially the same thing in Spanish.

Meh. I never tried very hard in Spanish.

I thought that sounded really weird. . .

[Sage Of The Wise]

I don't try hard in Spanish either, but I;m still stuck taking it because of my mom. She doesn't understand how much I hate it.

[Greatchickenman]

When it comes to Spanish i'm pretty indifferent. But if I take it up to my last year in high school I get college credits, so I guess i'm pretty content with that.