Saturday, January 12, 2008
English and German
What does that make? Genglish? Engman? Never mind. In the middle of a conversation yesterday we decided to switch to German so that I could practise a bit. It was funny to see Swiss girl all of a sudden starting to make large lip moves and articulating very clearly, like I all of a sudden had become hearing-impaired or a little bit dumber just because we spoke another language. Why?
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some say because of all the various meanings of a words, especially small words in the language, plus the etymology
my friend is www.dictionary.com...
NF
Yes I know you're a big fan of manuals :)...
English and German
funny that ikea puts only symbols and drawing in the manuals, what is pretty international.
imagine a newspaper with only drawings and symbols. LOL.
And yet IKEA is so popular!
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