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11-22-2004, 06:36 AM
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Deadnight Chanter
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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
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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
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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
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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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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, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Chicago. Home of our queen Oprah.
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11-23-2004, 10:33 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The land of Beer*smile* Germany
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Do people in America(or England or whereever) really think all germans are beerdrinkers? I'd love to her some other prejudices about us Germans, that's really interesting I think.... so please tell me your view of germany 
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11-23-2004, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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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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Join Date: Mar 2004
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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
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Deep calling to the deep - or the fact that Sindarin is related to Welsh?
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11-23-2004, 01:55 PM
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Shadow of Starlight
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Goats, ferries and...tweed.
*shrugs* Half of Boston is made up of the Irish who emigrated in the early 20th century. It seems like a somehow glorified nationality - it draws people. Various people in my school claim to be Irish and it's like "yes, because your great grandmother once took the ferry over from Stranraer to Belfast, that obviously makes you Irish..." (Stranraer being a very strange little village on the Scottish coast that always seems dead and has a whiff of goats and the sort of relationships found in Jacobean tragedies).
Psh, the English newspapers are just ruffled because the Germans get up at four in the morning to steal the sunbeds *STEREOTYPE ALERT* Lol, there are plenty about us though, I'm sure - the English seem to come across as complete prudes who are interested only in cricket and the weather; a nation that wears a disturbing and suspicious propensity (is that even the right word?) of tweed...Quote:
I name-grabbed - you should feel priveleged that you were the first name to come to mind.
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But how could you forget all the other German-born composers such as Brahms, Wagner, and Beethoven? "Musicality of the Germans"... no kidding. That must be where I get it from. So, I guess we should assume that you are not Bavarian, Durfuiniel. What Bundesland do you come from? Mein Großvater war von Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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