Nein! I admit nozink!
And, I know it's mainly a Britishism, but spelt is a past tense of spell. Unless you mean that I misspelt something else?
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German help, please
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And, I know it's mainly a Britishism, but spelt is a past tense of spell. Unless you mean that I misspelt something else?
Oh, sorry, I realized right after I hit "post" that you were showing the Google Translate screenshot ironically. Pardon my lack of humor.
Wait, what?
Spelt is a type of wheat. Spelled is past tense of spell.
What is happening?
Spelt is a grain and a substitute for wheat, in some cases. It is also a chiefly British spelling and pronunciation of spelled. And although I am not British, my motto - a paean to laziness, actually - has always been, why use more letters than required?
FYI, Invalid Link Removed is an online translation dictionary that's WAY better than Google translate for... much of anything. I don't think you can plug whole paragraphs into it the same way, so it still requires some knowledge of the language, but it will give you a full sampling of different idioms and usages for a given word or short phrase.
I blame Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for this insanity.
Ah, stinking, rotten, dirty, filthy grammar and linguistics: my world.
I agree with the idea that für alle Stände refers to social classes (for all social classes).
Funny thing, the word Illustrirtes is either spelt incorrectly (it would be wrong according to today's standards) or it just was spelt that way in the mid 19th century. My guess would be the latter.
Btw, did a quick google search and found copies of that book and others like it for around 250 € over here.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 1)
No, you didn't. Schnitzelbank is a noun and in German all nouns have a capital letter, so it's better to use a capital "S".
Schnitzelbank is female (German nouns are either male, female, or neutral), so the indefinite article should have been eine instead of ein.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 2)
Recht = justice or privileg.
However, du hast recht is absolutey perfect in spoken and written German and works fine in the given context.
English uses a form of to be: You are right.
German uses a form of to have (haben): Du hast recht (or: Du hast Recht).
*Du hast richtig or *Du hast korrekt don't work.
Du liegst richtig would be fine for example.
Enough smart ass for this week.
I agree with the idea that für alle Stände refers to social classes (for all social classes).
Funny thing, the word Illustrirtes is either spelt incorrectly (it would be wrong according to today's standards) or it just was spelt that way in the mid 19th century. My guess would be the latter.
Btw, did a quick google search and found copies of that book and others like it for around 250 € over here.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 1)
No, you didn't. Schnitzelbank is a noun and in German all nouns have a capital letter, so it's better to use a capital "S".
Schnitzelbank is female (German nouns are either male, female, or neutral), so the indefinite article should have been eine instead of ein.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 2)
Recht = justice or privileg.
However, du hast recht is absolutey perfect in spoken and written German and works fine in the given context.
English uses a form of to be: You are right.
German uses a form of to have (haben): Du hast recht (or: Du hast Recht).
*Du hast richtig or *Du hast korrekt don't work.
Du liegst richtig would be fine for example.
Enough smart ass for this week.
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Btw, I have read numerous times that "spelled" and "spelt" are both fine as past tense / past participles in English.
MeasseAh, stinking, rotten, dirty, filthy grammar and linguistics: my world.
I agree with the idea that für alle Stände refers to social classes (for all social classes).
Funny thing, the word Illustrirtes is either spelt incorrectly (it would be wrong according to today's standards) or it just was spelt that way in the mid 19th century. My guess would be the latter.
Btw, did a quick google search and found copies of that book and others like it for around 250 € over here.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 1)
No, you didn't. Schnitzelbank is a noun and in German all nouns have a capital letter, so it's better to use a capital "S".
Schnitzelbank is female (German nouns are either male, female, or neutral), so the indefinite article should have been eine instead of ein.
(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 2)
Recht = justice or privileg.
However, du hast recht is absolutey perfect in spoken and written German and works fine in the context that SunnBass used.
English uses a form of to be: You are right.
German uses a form of to have (haben): Du hast recht (or: Du hast Recht).
*Du hast richtig or *Du hast korrekt don't work.
Du liegst richtig would be fine for example.
Enough smart ass for this week.
It's "thank you" in the Bavarian "slang" I was taught while living in Freising.
Bavaria is a magical place.Wow, never heard that before.
After having my German "corrected" over the course of several months by my friends and classmates at the Dom Gynasium, we went on a 2 day trip to Berlin. I had so much trouble being understood there. The Bavarian dialect is so strange, it almost seems Austrian at times.
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This is probably perfectly intelligible to you then...
or this (momentary NSFW bits...)
When I was about 13 I spent a summer with a German family, decided to get a tape (it was tapes back then) of German music to listen to, so I got one by BAP. My host brother was very upset, and explained to his mother what the problem was... "Mutti, das ist kein Deutsch! Es is KOELSCH!"
I am lucky to have gotten any of it right, not knowing the grammar and fighting spell check the entire time.(Humorless German in smart ass mode part 1)
I knew "recht" didn't sound right, but couldn't quite remember "richtig". I have to get one of those language courses in German and relearn it. Just have fragments left.
Cool! Apparently a French loanword from "merci".
Funny thing is, Hochdeutsch actually has, beside the colloquial meaning of "Standard, proper German", the more technical one of "Southern-type variety", to which Bavarian very much belongs - "high" in this sense denoting neither Northern-ness nor prestige but altitude, like in Egypt. (The colloquial usage does have prestige connotations, and on the other side "Plattdeutsch" does seem to contain both senses - "Lowland" and "lowly" - in the mind of many users of the word.)
Or so I'm written. I just love linguistic fun-facts. Couldn't order a sandwich in German to save my life...
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Thanks everyone for all the info.
