Thursday, July 03, 2008

Ich Sprechen Kein Deutsch

I took two years of college German. Why? Because the University of Minnesota needed a way to employ all these people who major in a foreign language but don't have jobs, that's why.

Seriously, unless you're going to become a translator, then there's no reason to require TWO YEARS of a foreign language at any university. Heck, we shouldn't even be teaching languages in high schools. Seriously, how much time did you waste learning a pathetic amount of Spanish or German or French and imagine how much better you would have been served had you instead been forced to student personal financial planning, 401k management and so forth?

In any case, my German is now relegated to phrases from the video games I play, like;

Runt fur ihre leiben, die Amerikan hatte ein panzerfaust

Vehrzingung, aber sie hat ihre grenate vergessen.

Gutten tag, fraulein, schones. Ich bin der Kaptain auf Kapitalismus.

And other such handy phrases.

And I'm sure they're not even spelled right.

Regardless, it was nice to see a jim dandy chart located in one of our German brother's websites;


I can't read the darn article, but this is why charts are so beautiful. You don't need to speak a language to know what they're saying. They're kind of like dogs or "hunds."

Danke.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:40 AM

    Isn't the article written in English, or do you mean an other article?

    BTW, your German is nicht schlecht. However, there's no way to translate the true meaning of the name Captain Capitalism, which would literally be translated with "Hauptmann Kapitalismus". That is because Germany does not have any heroes. Don't ask me why, but we really don't have any heroes! History is full of darkness and shame, and our comic books are imported from the US.

    And YOU are complaining about Dying America. Germany has always been "dead" ;-)

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  2. Hi Cap! did you read the news about the rescue mission in Colombia? how the colombian army deceived the guerrilla and freed Ingrid Betancourt?

    "Once on board the helicopters, the two guerrilla escorts were overpowered and the army agents, dressed in Che Guevara T-shirts, broke the news to the hostages that they were flying to an army base and freedom. “We couldn’t believe it. The helicopter nearly fell because we jumped for joy,” said Ms Betancourt.

    Ohhh so sweet how they used Che...

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  3. Hi Cap! did you read the news about the rescue mission in Colombia? how the colombian army deceived the guerrilla and freed Ingrid Betancourt?

    "Once on board the helicopters, the two guerrilla escorts were overpowered and the army agents, dressed in Che Guevara T-shirts, broke the news to the hostages that they were flying to an army base and freedom. “We couldn’t believe it. The helicopter nearly fell because we jumped for joy,” said Ms Betancourt.

    Ohhh so sweet how they used Che...

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  4. Hey Carlito,

    Yeah, I saw it, it's a sad day for Hugo Chavez and leftists everywhere.

    If there's somebody I loathe, it's those FARC bastards.

    "Socialism or else"

    Idiots pissing away their lives refusing the join the rest of society because society isn't just going to give them a free ride.

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  5. Dtrum,

    Thanks! No, I just saw the whole web site and most of his site is in German.

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  6. Anonymous12:29 PM

    My brother took high school German, except he was quite good at it (though he had an advantage as our mother is from Austria). He sang operas and read novels in German.

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  7. Anonymous8:45 AM

    You realize that entire graph makes a conclusion from one data point.

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