Comments on: My sister in law just got Abwrackpraemie https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/ Mon, 26 Sep 2016 04:43:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dewabioskop21 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540325 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 04:43:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540325 thx for sharing 😀

]]> By: NJ https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540324 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:21:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540324

My sister in law just got Abwrackpraemie

Wasn’t that a Marty Wilde song?

Wait….never mind.

]]> By: H Kaiser https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540323 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:20:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540323 Peak performers in this discipline are german bureaucrats.
The government in Mecklenburg Vorpomjmern enacted a law called

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (RkRe�A�G M-V)
http://mv.juris.de/mv/RkReUeAUeG_MV_rahmen.htm

]]> By: Barn Owl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540322 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:54:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540322 When I was a postdoc, we once received a new incubator from a German company, with assembly instructions available only in German. My boss held up one of the many, many pieces and asked “What do you think this is for?”

“That?” I replied, “Oh, that’s the Wasserdraussenlassenstopfen.”

The real name of the piece in the assembly instructions wasn’t far off. We English-speakers would call it a stopper.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540321 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:49:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540321 I took German 1201 (a 3-hour credit) in first year university. I also took a 3-hour credit in French to fulfill my “6 hrs in non-English” core requirement. Fast forward five years, I’m told I don’t qualify to graduate, as the courses have to be in the same language.

I also sucked at German. And this is probably at least partly why. The fact that you don’t combine separate words to new phrases, you actually create new words out of the constituent words, just bugs the hell out of me. Never did get all those other people that go “oh, it’s so much like English, it’s easy!” Those people are wrong and dumb and smelly.

]]> By: Tony P https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540320 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:13:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/22/my-sister-in-law-just-got-abwr/#comment-540320 When I was in high school I had the option to take either Spanish, Italian, French or German. I chose Spanish but I heard German was hellish because of the fact that they string words together to form new ones.

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