"stark nachgeschnitten" - anyone speak German?

"When shall we 3 meet again..."

 

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...talking 'bout witches :-D

 

Lieben Sie eine Hexe ?

 

Guys, we're slightly off-topic lol

 

We are always going off topic, it is an "ancients" thing.

Stick around, we might drag you over to the Dark Side.

 

Should I post a stamp now?

 

Does it have an ancient coin on it?

 

"stark nachgeschnitten" - anyone speak German?

Gesundheit?

 

Does this one qualify?

 

Looks like the auction house dont want to sell that medal/coin with such a description. I think its a beautifull medal, certainly not heavy tooled imho.

Got some stamps left from my stampcollecting period:

 

Great, now I want to get those stamps...

jk. actually...

maybe.

 

Ich habe keine antike Briefmarke.

 

Ich auch

 

Ich verstehe kein Deutsch

 

That's too bad. It's a fun language. On certain occasions one can add three or four verbs to the end of a sentence or one can words together to make a "new" word. I always have fun when I get a chance to speak German.

 

Only the lyrics to my favorite hymn—Großer Gott wir loben dich.

 

I really do want to learn it. A few months ago I started one of those free online courses but I gave up because I don't know if I'd just be wasting my time. Who knows how accurate it is. Eh maybe I'll give it another go, I've always wanted to be bilingual.

 

As for those verbs ... not really. We may well have a combination of a main verb and some auxiliary verb at the end of a subordinate clause. In the main clause the verb would be at a different position. What is kind of fun though - in German you can easily merge several nouns into one. In legalese and administrative lingo you may then come across monsters such as the famous Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - an actual law (until mid-2013) in the state of Mecklenburg West Pomerania. That one became well known even beyond Germany because of its 63 characters. In everyday language we do use blanks and hyphens though.

Christian

 

I grew up using German phrases since Grandparents/other relatives from several sides of my family were German; then learned Spanish (horrible) for business in the Americas; then moved to the UK and learned a little WELSH as it was compulsory for my kids schooling and my Factory was mainly welsh folks; and, of course, learned various pleasantries in about 12 languages due to my travels. LOL, don't ask me to try to remember it all...

I have a big swath of Finnish in my blood that I recently discovered. Did a LOT of business in Finland, so I need to learn some! Same with Irish... Love that ancient language. Perhaps I need to get a Google Translator chip implanted in my head!

 

Overhere in the Netherlands we learn at least 2 other languages beside Dutch in school.
Standard German and English and if you have a feel for it, French and Spanish are added.
Often wonder why they dont teach kids in other countries at least (good) English.
well perhaps they do, but in France, Spain, Germany , they usually only speak their own language , and if they try to speak English, I cant make head nor tail of it.
We have an open economy and a long history of international trade , so we need to speak and write several languages.