Couldn't I just stand in a corner and hand out complimentary hugs with a womanly touch? They wouldn't even have to pay me. Indeed, I would pay them for that job! :)
LOLOLOL I think that's the only phrase I speak fluently. :)
BUT LOOK AT THIS! I just looked it up and this is what I found...
Many of us are descended from these Germanic peoples, who settled here (Pennsylvania) in the late 1600s. "Dutch" is a misnomer, as the Anabaptist sects came primarily from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland. (The word may come form the word Deutsch, which is German for German!) The dialect spoken is a German dialect; many of the words and phrases would be recognizable to tourists from Germany.
So see? We practically speak the same language! :D
Yeah I (being a language nerd) looked it up on youtube some time ago. I can understand bits of it, but it sounds like a southern german dialect to me, maybe from Sami Khedira's region or thereabouts.
So maybe you and Sami do speak the same language, hehehe :-) :-)
How fun! I bet there are other turns of phrase you use without realizing their origin. Listening to German comms makes me realize how much I really, really do not know German, lol.
I'm "racking my brain" trying to think of more unique idioms my family uses...
Hey, maybe that's another?
I'm learning German one word at a time thanks to Mesut and my love of German football. So far I've got "natürlich", "überragend", and "happy mensch". Oh, and "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOR"! :D
Wish more people did more research like you. I think I start wearing a shirt with that quote on it the next time I visit the US. Can't tell you the amount of times Americans have asked me on my holiday, "Oh, you're from Holland? So, are you related to the Pennsylvania Dutch?" GAH! Pennsylvania Dutch are GERMAN. We call Germans "Duitsers" and Germany is "Duitsland", and then along came the English language and threw that for a loop XD XD
LOL No need. It's an honest mistake. Again, the language is more to "blame" than the people. As a child I DID think they were actually Dutch until my dad explained it to me. Can't blame people for thinking otherwise when the name (albeit incorrectly) clearly states Pennsylvania DUTCH. The best one I can recall hearing back when I was about twenty, while visiting friends in Baltimore, went something like: "It must be so strange for you, coming from such a progressive, liberal place like Holland, to find how conservative 'our' Dutch people (aka the Amish) are!" I must admit, sometimes I exaggerate just how liberal we are over here, just to see how much people are willing to believe. Hope none of them ever come to Holland genuinely expecting complimentary 5 ounce packs of ganja at Amsterdam Central Station. They're bound to be disappointed XD XD
I remember how confused I was when I learned the Englsh word "Dutch" in like 6th grade because it sounds so much like "Deutsch" (German). We call Dutch "Holländisch", or (more PC I think?) "Niederländisch". Maybe the Pennsylvania Dutch were calling themselves "Deutsch" which got turned into "Dutch" or something...
I just had to write it, because I can't restrain myself from writing to this community every single day. Someone, call the doctor I'm from Ukraine. Привет землякам!:) (ну, или почти землякам:) Откуда ты?
I once watched a documentary on Ricky Martin (don't judge) and when he came off stage, sweaty and shirtless, there was a woman stood there with a towel who's sole purpose was to wipe sweat off him.
Oh, but the BEAUTY is that it's YOUR JOB to be sure that Sergio's abs and ass are PERFECTLY DRY. And if that means going the extra mile, I can do that.
I'm so happy this picture came out. Thankfully someone (was it Arbeloa?) had the presence of mind to take it and share it immediately. I feel Mesut's withholding pics from us lately. Silly boy... He just said in the interview he knows how much we like them!
Clearly!!! He knows that now when he posts a picture we female detectives can figure out who he's with, why, where they are, when, and what he had for breakfast. :)
And I only just now remembered that he DID post that driving in Madrid pic not that long ago. (We deduced who, where, when, what and why... except for the breakfast part but that explains why he went to the grocery store...)
OMG I forgot we made such fun of his mustache. Now I feel terrible!
After all the fuss about the team performance in the league, it's so nice to see them all able to get these 3 important wins & celebrated this moment for a bit. Absolutely exceeded my expectation to get these straight wins. Looking forward to the drawing, should be on next week.
About Ozil on this match, he didn't score nor assist, but he added his decisive backheel scene collections with that one for Higuain leading to the winning goal. Others I could remember from him was one against Ajax, Villareal, & Sweden (this would be much more appreciated if Muller scored that, it's 1v1 ffs).
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Date: 2013-03-06 08:36 am (UTC)Physiotherapist?
Coach?
Fellow player?
I am in the wrong career!
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Date: 2013-03-06 01:05 pm (UTC)Also, I'm very good at "reading up" (pronounced red- ing) an old Pennsylvania Dutch term we use to mean "tidying up" messy rooms.
Considering I'm one of the few that speaks only one language fluently around here, I figured I'd throw that in. :)
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Date: 2013-03-06 01:35 pm (UTC)BUT LOOK AT THIS! I just looked it up and this is what I found...
Many of us are descended from these Germanic peoples, who settled here (Pennsylvania) in the late 1600s. "Dutch" is a misnomer, as the Anabaptist sects came primarily from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland. (The word may come form the word Deutsch, which is German for German!) The dialect spoken is a German dialect; many of the words and phrases would be recognizable to tourists from Germany.
So see? We practically speak the same language! :D
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Date: 2013-03-06 01:39 pm (UTC)Yeah I (being a language nerd) looked it up on youtube some time ago. I can understand bits of it, but it sounds like a southern german dialect to me, maybe from Sami Khedira's region or thereabouts.
So maybe you and Sami do speak the same language, hehehe :-) :-)
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Date: 2013-03-06 02:29 pm (UTC)Hey, maybe that's another?
I'm learning German one word at a time thanks to Mesut and my love of German football. So far I've got "natürlich", "überragend", and "happy mensch". Oh, and "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOR"! :D
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Date: 2013-03-09 05:52 am (UTC)TOOOOOOOOR is all you really need to know. ;-)
I am still learning new bits of "Football-English" every day from listening to the commentators. It's fun!
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Date: 2013-03-06 03:31 pm (UTC)"It must be so strange for you, coming from such a progressive, liberal place like Holland, to find how conservative 'our' Dutch people (aka the Amish) are!"
I must admit, sometimes I exaggerate just how liberal we are over here, just to see how much people are willing to believe. Hope none of them ever come to Holland genuinely expecting complimentary 5 ounce packs of ganja at Amsterdam Central Station. They're bound to be disappointed XD XD
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Date: 2013-03-06 09:32 am (UTC)In italy we say "pagamento in natura" which means (more or less) "payment in kind"...
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Date: 2013-03-06 02:50 pm (UTC)Which I believe means the same!<3
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Date: 2013-03-07 02:15 am (UTC)Are you from Russia or did you study Russian?
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Date: 2013-03-07 07:25 pm (UTC)Someone, call the doctorI'm from Ukraine. Привет землякам!:) (ну, или почти землякам:) Откуда ты?
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Date: 2013-03-06 12:38 pm (UTC)I could do this job for Real
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Date: 2013-03-06 05:59 pm (UTC)And I only just now remembered that he DID post that driving in Madrid pic not that long ago. (We deduced who, where, when, what and why... except for the breakfast part but that explains why he went to the grocery store...)
OMG I forgot we made such fun of his mustache. Now I feel terrible!
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Date: 2013-03-06 03:35 pm (UTC)(I'm pretty damn sure I was never THIS pervy until joining this community ... )
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Date: 2013-03-06 03:43 pm (UTC)"Like" x 1000000
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Date: 2013-03-09 01:16 am (UTC)(I'm pretty damn sure I was never THIS pervy until joining this community ... )
- Makes two of us, haha.
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Date: 2013-03-07 01:03 pm (UTC)About Ozil on this match, he didn't score nor assist, but he added his decisive backheel scene collections with that one for Higuain leading to the winning goal. Others I could remember from him was one against Ajax, Villareal, & Sweden (this would be much more appreciated if Muller scored that, it's 1v1 ffs).
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Date: 2013-03-07 09:10 pm (UTC)Chelsea's doctor (physiotherapist?) is a woman. Makes me think I chose the wrong major in college.
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Date: 2013-03-07 10:26 pm (UTC)I hope you can see the picture, it's the first time I try to post one ... :-S