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Cactuar Zone => Random lnsanity => Topic started by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 06:51:44 pm

Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 06:51:44 pm
How art thou upon such a fine good day?

Anyway, I'm bored so...

Any of you like Rammstein? If so...

..

Hmph. For once, I'm out of ideas.

Anyone here like Terranigma?
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Moth on May 29, 2007, 06:52:39 pm
Hey, Kite. ^_^

I'm peachy on this beautiful Spring day. =D

And yes, I do like Rammstein. <3
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 06:53:45 pm
Rammstein = Win.

What shall I listen to?

Sonne, Rosenrot, Engel, Keine Lust, or Mein Teil?
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Moth on May 29, 2007, 06:58:39 pm
OOMPH! - Gott ist ein tonicstar

If you like Rammstein, you'll like their primary influence. ;>.>
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 29, 2007, 07:03:57 pm
<3 Rammstein both for the fact that the music is good and the lyrics are generally hilarious (in a somewhat twisted way). Wollt ihr das Bett in Flamen Sehen = Best title ever.
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 07:09:17 pm
Wollt ihr das Bett in Flamen Sehen? What does that mean?
*Listens to Keine Lust*

>_>;
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 29, 2007, 07:12:03 pm
"Do you all want to see the bed in flames?"

Possibly my favorite band, which has only been reinforced by the fact that I now understand what they're actually saying XD
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 07:19:58 pm
o_O Awkward title. <_<;
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 29, 2007, 07:26:12 pm
The one thing that really annoys me on the occasions that I actually look up the lyrics rather than translating them myself is the fact that there are so many truly poor translations. The one that gets me the most is the translation of "Du Hast" as "You Hate" because that doesn't even make sense in the context of the rest of the song. >_>
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 07:30:59 pm
I always thought that "Du Hast" meaning "You Hate" and "You Have" Was supposed to be the whole point of the song, since the song itself was a play on wedding vows..
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 29, 2007, 07:34:29 pm
It is. But the pun only works in German. Translating it to English, you can't use "hate" or it winds up saying "You hate me asked" instead of "You asked me" >_>
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: The Unnamed Soldier on May 29, 2007, 07:41:34 pm
I thought the pun was that it was

You

You Have (Hate)

You Have Me (Hate Me)

Meh
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 29, 2007, 07:46:30 pm
From memory, the lines are-

Du hast
Du hast mich
Du hast mich gefragt
Und ich hab' nichts gesagt

Because German sentence structure is weird, "Du hast mich gefragt" Means "You asked me" and the following line ("Und ich hab' nichts gesagt") means "And I said nothing"

The pun arises when you consider that "Du hast mich" is pronounced like "Du hasst mich" which means "You hate me"
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Mr_Cynic on May 30, 2007, 07:42:14 pm
Am I the only one here who has no idea why that one s makes so much of a difference?
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 30, 2007, 07:45:16 pm
Do you understand the difference between the words "his" and "hiss"? Because that's how much of a difference it makes.
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Mr_Cynic on May 30, 2007, 08:10:22 pm
So in the one with one s, the s sounds like a z almost?  I'm seriously curious, German is 2nd on my list of languages I eventually want to learn in my spare time.  Gaelic is first.  Yes, I know Gaelic is useless.
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: Delta1212 on May 31, 2007, 01:32:35 pm
Both are pronounced exactly the same way, but mean completely different things. Sort of like bare and bear.
Title: Well, Howdy guys! <_<
Post by: zblewski on May 31, 2007, 01:37:03 pm
Quote from: Mr_Cynic
So in the one with one s, the s sounds like a z almost?  I'm seriously curious, German is 2nd on my list of languages I eventually want to learn in my spare time.  Gaelic is first.  Yes, I know Gaelic is useless.

Try Kaszub. only 50,000 speakers, about 100-500 are in my great-grandparent's area. NO one in the country can read the language, written form was invented after the mass-immigration.