Been trying to explain to people for years that the Germans, like everybody else, are not just one lump and have different ideas.
Actually, they have them even more. They may think they’re one cohesive group, but they can get loud when they aren’t.
Been trying to explain to people for years that the Germans, like everybody else, are not just one lump and have different ideas.
Actually, they have them even more. They may think they’re one cohesive group, but they can get loud when they aren’t.
I always thought “warmer bruder” had the most tender, loving sound to it. Probably not what people are going for when they use it as an insult!
Michael, I’ve always wondered why it was used. Except it may just be an extension of the “I am” temperature conditions in German. As in “hot” = horny, and “cold” = frigid. You know — you say, “It’s cold to me,” because if you say, “I’m cold,” all the Germans around you will choke to death trying not to laugh. We could have stopped World War Two by dropping enough beer into the German divisions and having our troops line up yelling the German ‘I’m hot!’ “I’m cold!”
Oh hell, just dropping the beer would have been enough! Get a German drunk, get them to sing along to “Lily Marlene” and watch them get those sentimental tears in their eyes. They’ll be surrendering and showing you photos of their loved ones before you can say “Gemütlichkeit.”
Michael; Tell me about it. My most ferocious German teachers, when joining us at the “teas” (the German department teas included beer), would put an arm around your shoulder and giggle. The German department parties were legendary. Held in a boat-house, they looked like a Putsch. the Chinese department closed down theirs and joined OURS. The Russian party that became legendary in its department was a piddly weekend moment in comparison. Of course, this WAS Ohio State.