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11-21-2004, 09:26 PM
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Bittersweet Symphony
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
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Well, Estelyn Telcontar is German... she's the only one I know of, though.
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11-22-2004, 02:46 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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I do indeed live in Germany, though I'm not actually a German citizen; another member, one of the administrators, is German - Sharkû. There have been others who have popped in occasionally, but of the regulars, that's all I know of. Welcome to the Downs, Durfuiniel!
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11-22-2004, 06:36 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
Join Date: Sep 2000
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I always thought you were German, Esty. Now I find you to be like my sister, who lives in Germany and is Georgian citizen. Perchance you are my sister?
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11-22-2004, 01:13 PM
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Shadow of Starlight
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: dancing among the ledgerlines...
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Yes...well. Ahem. Indeed. No...germans here. *pause* If you'll excuse me...
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11-22-2004, 04:03 PM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Oh dear, I hate to disappoint you, HI and Aman, but I'm nothing that interesting at all! I'm only bilingual, and since those two languages, neither of them Georgian, are English and German, I'm obviously not HI's sister. I am a U.S. citizen by birth, German by descent, and have been living in Germany for many years. 'Nuff information?!
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11-22-2004, 11:52 PM
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Beloved Shadow
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Stadium
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Not quite- we just need your SSN and address and then we'll be all done.
I'm also of German descent, but I've never been to Deutschland. I'd like to go though, mainly to see all those große alte Schlösser, or however you say it. But there's all that water between here and there. Very deep water. I'm scared of oceans... they're just not natural (oder natürlich, for you German sprechers out there). And Esty, are you going to be coming to my city any time soon? I'm still depressed about not getting to meet you last time you were here. Anyway- getränkbier und essen Sie bratwursts!!
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11-23-2004, 07:53 AM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: perpetual uncertainty
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Perhaps not... I was never good at simple messages... overthink them and all. My descent is of the Western European Mutt variety. Some English, Welsh, Irish... But as my family is generally unaware of where my mother's side of the family came from, you could conceivably throw in any nationality and I might have a blood-relative from there. But mostly... English and Irish. No German... Fea
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11-23-2004, 12:24 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
Posts: 9,463
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My disappearance?  I guess that profiting from logistical problems to cut down the time I spend on line is not coming a moment too soon if missing the occasional day counts as disappearance....BTW We spell it "baroque" (like the french) and the Brits say it more or less the same way as the Germans but the Americans make the "O" a long vowel... I am mainly English by blood but I have an Irish surname (My Great grandfather was an Irish cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells to Irish parents from Cork who emigrated after the potato famine), and my grandmother's family were Welsh. There is allegedly a drop of French blood somewhere, but nothing more exotic than that...
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11-23-2004, 12:58 PM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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I have no prejudice about Germans - well, not about anyone, in fact! Something which does irritate me about English newspapers is that they do perpetuate it. We are close cousins linguistically and culturally, and so this attitude just makes no sense to me. What's great about Germany? Their cars, the beers, Goethe...
Is the German for Annihilation really Vernichtung? Someone asked me this today, thinking I'd know... What am I? My father's family are all from the same area into the far distant past, an area which was settled by Vikings at one time. Half my mother's family originated in Kinsale, the other half from North Wales; her great grandfather was a Welsh hellfire preacher who steadfastly refused to learn English. I'm a bit diverted by how many 'Downers seem to have Celtic connections - is it some kind of genetic resonance which makes us Tolkienians? 
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11-23-2004, 01:26 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Deep calling to the deep - or the fact that Sindarin is related to Welsh?
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