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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-25 10:03:00


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Entry tags:community: techsupport, defensiveness ahoy, dictionaries are for losers, get your ampersands here, grammar and spelling, language

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
A rocket scientist over in [info]techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.

Good times.



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[info]weaselistic
2008-11-25 10:17 pm UTC (link)
I think I've heard both. I also hate it when they mispronounce "Saarlouis", but that's just a personal thing. The S is silent, train people, goddammit.

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[info]bemysty
2008-11-25 10:22 pm UTC (link)
I've had people who can't pronounce Goettingen... or Hannover... or Marburg. In EITHER language. Let alone 'Munich' or 'Cologne', oh god oh god.

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[info]weaselistic
2008-11-25 10:33 pm UTC (link)
OK, that's kinda... dumb.

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[info]mydemand
2008-11-25 11:45 pm UTC (link)
How do you pronounce Koln? Cologne is self-explanatory, but I've tried the original German pronunciation and it sounds like i'm choking on a frog.

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[info]caoilte
2008-11-26 04:56 am UTC (link)
That's why we drove everywhere when in Germany. I don't think we could have coped with that... *sheepish smile*

(I've only been to Saarbrucken tho, so what do I know? Oh and some random place beginning with K that I need to find the name of cuz it's the nearest town with a train station in Germany that's close to the border of Luxembourg....argh Why did I offer to go pick up my friend from a place I can't even remember the name of??)

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