Is There Some Job That Would Require Me To Be In Real Madrid's Dressing Room After Matches ... ?

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

(Getting pretty friendly there, Diego ... Go, Diego, go! ^_^)

Because I want THAT job! And this pic would have been even 50% better if those three on the right had adhered to the no-dress code

Dodgy red card, and more heart attacks than I cared to count, but whooooo!! We're through AND we survived Hell Week with three straight wins!! :D

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[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

I am best qualified to do the laundry. So for me, kit manager.

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. :)

[ellapropella.livejournal.com]

pennsylvania dutch??? that is SO much cooler than any other language! :-)

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

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

[ellapropella.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahha :-)

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 :-) :-)

[hermionemalfoy.livejournal.com]

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.

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

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

[ellapropella.livejournal.com]

hahahha, I love your litte list. though "happy mensch" is not exactly German, it's of Mesutish origin, as you know ;-)

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!

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

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

[suzanne410.livejournal.com]

SMH. On behalf of America, I apologize! :)

[ladya-sama.livejournal.com]

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

[ellapropella.livejournal.com]

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...