Frank Petrexa
Tribune
I never thought Germans made up long words per se. I just thought they had an aversion to using the space bar, and strung words together. It has the same effect, though.
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Frank Petrexa
Tribune
One other thing about this is important. There are a lot of counterfeit pills. Not only the dose but the content may be off. A high dose of this drug in particular is dangerous, since it affects blood pressure, and if something else (like a stimulant) is added that would be worse. So, just grit your teeth and buy it from a regulated manufacturer, either Pfizer itself or "generic" drug manufacturer who has to follow regulatory guidelines. Since it is off patent it should be cheap enough. There are other drugs in this class, also off-patent. Lilly (in which I also own stock) has one. I hope you are getting a prescription from a doctor who will "check all the boxes". Good experience to you.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Completely off topic, but very interesting (at least to me). From the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago--it's 18 minutes long.
Silent_Water
Tribune
Mhm, well, Germans and some Scandinavians have already made long words before "space bars" were invented. Sometimes, there were "words in poetic sounding combinations" which offered a new meaning which did not exist before this combination was made.
For example, I remember the really existing German word "Waldeinsamkeit".
"Wald" is "forest" and "Einsamkeit" is "loneliness", but the combination of both beautiful sounding words - at least for Germans like me - really means much, much, much more:
"The rather romantic experience of wandering alone in the forest and suddenly being overcome with the sense of a kind of wooden solitude and a deep melancholic feeling about the life, love, the universe and everything else." !
This is the highest form of our German romantic madness at its very best, I think.
And this is also the reason why I cannot get enough from German word combinations or famous German-speaking persons like the great Austrian actor Christoph Waltz explaining exactly this to persons like Jimmy Fallon:
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montycrusto
Guest
“Waldeinsamkeit” is indeed a beautiful word. And concept. I’m also a big fan of such James Joyce sesquipedalianisms as “scrotumtightening”Mhm, well, Germans and some Scandinavians have already made long words before "space bars" were invented. Sometimes, there were "words in poetic sounding combinations" which offered a new meaning which did not exist before this combination was made.
For example, I remember the really existing German word "Waldeinsamkeit".
"Wald" is "forest" and "Einsamkeit" is "loneliness", but the combination of both beautiful sounding words - at least for Germans like me - really means much, much, much more:
"The rather romantic experience of wandering alone in the forest and suddenly being overcome with the sense of a kind of wooden solitude and a deep melancholic feeling about the life, love, the universe and everything else." !
This is the highest form of our German romantic madness at its very best, I think.
And this is also the reason why I cannot get enough from German word combinations or famous German-speaking persons like the great Austrian actor Christoph Waltz explaining exactly this to persons like Jimmy Fallon:
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montycrusto
Guest
Talking of “Waldeinsamkeit” I was once living in Germany and reading any sci-fi I could get my hands on. There’s quite a fine novel by Ursula le Guin called “The Word for World is Forest”, a sort of eco-fable about the destruction of a densely forested planet and its indigenous inhabitants. The title was rendered into German (with marvellous alliteration) as “Das Wort für Welt ist Wald”
Silent_Water
Tribune
Yes, this title is almost a perfect Germanic "Stabreim" (=alliteration in form of a so-called "bar rhyme" = "Stab-Reim"). I remember also a funny German book by a professor for history with the title "War Karl der Kahle wirklich kahl?" (= Was Charles the Bald really bald?) in which he discusses in a very sarcastical kind if the additional names for historical persons were really founded on facts.
And he also mentions in a chapter about Vikings and their kings the fondness of Germanic and Scandinavic tribes for "Stabreim" (= "bar rhyme")-poetry, in which allegedly Vikings were celebrating their "heroic attacks" on other tribes and nations in a special "Germanic alliteration form of poetry". This professor quotes or invents in this book "Vikings' examples" which sounded so silly for me that I must laugh even today when I remember them:
"Wilde Wikinger windeten westwärts!" (= "Wild Vikings winched westward!" -> Ouch! )
And then:
"Spitze Speere schlitzten schlafende Schotten!" (= "Pointed spears slit sleeping Scotsmen!" -> Even more OUCH! )
And he also mentions in a chapter about Vikings and their kings the fondness of Germanic and Scandinavic tribes for "Stabreim" (= "bar rhyme")-poetry, in which allegedly Vikings were celebrating their "heroic attacks" on other tribes and nations in a special "Germanic alliteration form of poetry". This professor quotes or invents in this book "Vikings' examples" which sounded so silly for me that I must laugh even today when I remember them:
"Wilde Wikinger windeten westwärts!" (= "Wild Vikings winched westward!" -> Ouch! )
And then:
"Spitze Speere schlitzten schlafende Schotten!" (= "Pointed spears slit sleeping Scotsmen!" -> Even more OUCH! )
Migoz2
Senator
This is perfect!For example, I remember the really existing German word "Waldeinsamkeit".
"Wald" is "forest" and "Einsamkeit" is "loneliness", but the combination of both beautiful sounding words - at least for Germans like me - really means much, much, much more:
"The rather romantic experience of wandering alone in the forest and suddenly being overcome with the sense of a kind of wooden solitude and a deep melancholic feeling about the life, love, the universe and everything else." !
This is the highest form of our German romantic madness at its very best, I think.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
In my first course in German, the instructor reminisced about her first experiences as well. She recalls thinking a particular word sounded particularly beautiful: "Misthaufen" ("dung heap"). I'll never forget that word.
malins
Stumbling Seeker
The rare case where a straightforward literal translation massively improves a phrase! Though talented, creative translators will sometimes find less obvious ways to exploit the opportunities offered by different languages.
I remember that story, way back in my teenage years I got into into LeGuin after a series of science fiction classics was launched by the Heyne publishing house, that mad the genre a bit more accessible for someone like me
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montycrusto
Guest
Bloody hell.. those were the days, weren’t they… before you-know-what
That period already seems like a mythical golden age…
Silent_Water
Tribune
German can be a wonderful language and I know two former students (a Polish and a French girl) from my university who once told me that they really loved to learn German because it is a rather slow spoken - almost philosophical language - and you often can think and search an easier word while speaking without being remarked at once as a foreigner.
(For example: When you are a native English-speaker and you do not want to be recognized immediately in Germany, do never say "Dankeschön!", because we Germans usually recognize the foreigner at once when he speaks the "ö" or by the length of the spoken "schön", but you can say "Vielen Dank!" and then, we do not hear a special German sound.)
But there is also a German sentence with combined German words which are also easily transformed into a word game when you separate them again.
This sentence is probably the truth in perfect purity and I have never heard a similar "philosophical-sophisticated" sentence in another language (-> Please prove me wrong, if you can! ) :
"Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft."
(=> "Jealousy is a passion, that seeks with eagerness, what creates suffering." )
(For example: When you are a native English-speaker and you do not want to be recognized immediately in Germany, do never say "Dankeschön!", because we Germans usually recognize the foreigner at once when he speaks the "ö" or by the length of the spoken "schön", but you can say "Vielen Dank!" and then, we do not hear a special German sound.)
But there is also a German sentence with combined German words which are also easily transformed into a word game when you separate them again.
This sentence is probably the truth in perfect purity and I have never heard a similar "philosophical-sophisticated" sentence in another language (-> Please prove me wrong, if you can!
) :"Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft."
(=> "Jealousy is a passion, that seeks with eagerness, what creates suffering." )
Silent_Water
Tribune
Before I forget it again: In the German sentence before you can also see why we Germans use the capitalization of nouns.
In German, it is sometimes difficult to see the difference between verbs and nouns, because we can easily "substantivate verbs to nouns" or in other words: We are making nouns out of verbs - and even out of adjectives - probably much easier than other nations in their languages.
Problematic examples:
Der Gefangene floh. (= The prisoner fled.)
Der gefangene Floh. (= The caught flea.)
Der Junge sieht dir ungeheuer ähnlich. (The boy looks "tremendously" similar to you. )
Der Junge sieht dir Ungeheuer ähnlich. (The boy looks like you monster / ogre are looking.)
Wir helfen kranken Vögeln. (We are helping sick birds.)
Wir helfen Kranken vögeln. ( We are helping ... hrm ... the sick to bang ... mhm ... or something similar ... )
So, you see, German can also be very difficult, especially for foreigners in Germany. An American soldier in Germany was said to have mixed the following words in a German pharmacy during the 1980's which made him famous for all Germans near the Air Base of Ramstein:
Instead of ...
"Kann ich hier eine Waage kaufen? Ich möchte etwas Kleines wiegen. (= Can I buy here a libra? I would like to weigh something small. )
... he said in fact:
"Kann ich hier eine Wiege kaufen? Ich möchte etwas Kleines wagen." (= Can I buy here a cradle? I would dare something small! )
In German, it is sometimes difficult to see the difference between verbs and nouns, because we can easily "substantivate verbs to nouns" or in other words: We are making nouns out of verbs - and even out of adjectives - probably much easier than other nations in their languages.
Problematic examples:
Der Gefangene floh. (= The prisoner fled.)
Der gefangene Floh. (= The caught flea.)
Der Junge sieht dir ungeheuer ähnlich. (The boy looks "tremendously" similar to you. )
Der Junge sieht dir Ungeheuer ähnlich. (The boy looks like you monster / ogre are looking.)
Wir helfen kranken Vögeln. (We are helping sick birds.)
Wir helfen Kranken vögeln. ( We are helping ... hrm ... the sick to bang ... mhm ... or something similar ... )
So, you see, German can also be very difficult, especially for foreigners in Germany. An American soldier in Germany was said to have mixed the following words in a German pharmacy during the 1980's which made him famous for all Germans near the Air Base of Ramstein:
Instead of ...
"Kann ich hier eine Waage kaufen? Ich möchte etwas Kleines wiegen. (= Can I buy here a libra? I would like to weigh something small. )
... he said in fact:
"Kann ich hier eine Wiege kaufen? Ich möchte etwas Kleines wagen." (= Can I buy here a cradle? I would dare something small! )
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Yes, our German language is sometimes difficult to understand for non-native speakers. And when I think of our dialects, which not even Germans from other areas can understand, I think that completely strangers can hardly understand it.
An example from my homeland:Hase (Rabbit) ist Hose
Hose (Trousers) ist Huse
Baum (Tree) ist Boom in manchen Dörfern aber auch Baom oder Baam
You can also tell where someone comes from, but even outside of the Thuringian wood country (Thüringer Holzland) no German will understand that, and then how should a complete stranger cope with it.
An example from my homeland:Hase (Rabbit) ist Hose
Hose (Trousers) ist Huse
Baum (Tree) ist Boom in manchen Dörfern aber auch Baom oder Baam
You can also tell where someone comes from, but even outside of the Thuringian wood country (Thüringer Holzland) no German will understand that, and then how should a complete stranger cope with it.
Well, at least they weren't calling about your sexual
Kathy
Terra Nova Tramp
Who me?, LOL
Perhaps Tree meant they're worried you aren't active enough?
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
By the way,this is in a Candy store,in Minnesota... Does @Barbaria1 know anything about it ??
(For God's sake,don't let her anywhere near it !!)
(For God's sake,don't let her anywhere near it !!)
She's over there behind the fruit counter, just collecting a little shopping - must get a new passport photo done - ah, there's a cubicle over here, must be the place ... just get inside, sit in front of the screen ... this must be the button ...By the way,this is in a Candy store,in Minnesota... Does @Barbaria1 know anything about it ??
(For God's sake,don't let her anywhere near it !!)
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