Shadowrun and its ridiculous names, Didn't want to hijack the other thread Options

[Medicineman]

Ever heard an angy Italian?

You mean this angry Italian ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCFj9lf8IQE...feature=related

and for You US-Guys&Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqp64q7kHmw...feature=related
(and by-the-way the subtitles are grammatically even more correct than the original (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )

@Schweinehund
It's in reality not such a common Curse (it's much more common with "Movie-Nazies" )
maybe becouse its quite long (3 syllables)much more common is Arsch(Ass/Asshole; universal insult) or Scheiss/Scheisse(Shit; which is used like "Fuck" in America)
Yes...German insults are "Fecis-centered"

with a non-insulting Dance
Medicineman

[Sengir]

Eh, it's not German or Austrian, it's English distorted to vaguely look like German.

Yep, it's one of those things which only start to make sense if you try to pronounce it ^^

And why am I thinking of him now?

[Kagetenshi]

ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

SO RELAX AND WATCH THE BLINKING LIGHTS.

Apparently it's from the 1950s.

As your URL indicates, the proper translation is "blinkenlights", not "blinking lights".

This is very important.

~J

[KarmaInferno]

Yeah, but even "blinkenlights" is a corruption of "blinking lights".



-k

[MYST1C]

According to the 'New German Orthography' the word's spelled 'Schifffahrt' with triple 'f'. *cringe* Even a better word: 'Flussschifffahrt' (river traffic) *tryin' not to puke*

At least the New Orthography does allow the optional introduction of hyphens into compound nouns to help understanding. So "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" could alternatively be spelled e.g. "Donau-Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschafts-Kapitän" or "Donau-Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschafts-Kapitän"...

[Cochise]

Yeah, but even "blinkenlights" is a corruption of "blinking lights".

And of course a corruption of "Blinklichter" ... the correct german spelling.

Just as a side note: IT crowd does the same stuff in all languages. A very similar text in terms of intention and fun would be:

Achdung! Kombjuderraum!

D'r Raum is voll bis unner de Deck mit de dollschde elegtrische un vollelegdronische Ohlacha.
Stauna und gugga darf jeda ... awer rumworschdle und Knöbbflä drügga dürfa nur mir!

De Experda

In this particular case the humor is based around writing in one of the german dialects (or more in variant versions of said text) that normally do not have a written representation.

[Stahlseele]

When you go me on the nerven I will put you in a gulli and do the deckel druff, so you never come back to the Tageslicht

[Doc Byte]

Why a communist rebel movement would call themselves Herbstgeister (autumn spirits) is beyond me, but those groups sometimes DO have freaky names.

I knew that rang a bell. Finally I've made the connection: Deutscher Herbst (German Autumn) of course! There's a pretty clear RAF connection.

[sabs]

I've been paying attention to company names near me.

Happy Harry Discount Drugs
Horizon Services

I'm perfectly happy with a company calling itself Happy Corporation (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Sengir]

I knew that rang a bell. Finally I've made the connection: Deutscher Herbst (German Autumn) of course! There's a pretty clear RAF connection.

Erstaaaaaa (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Doc Byte]

Erstaaaaaa (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

?

[Ascalaphus]

He means he got there first.

[Ascalaphus]

He means he got there first.

[Doc Byte]

He means he got there first.

Okay, found the two little words after several times of re-reading the post in question.

[Dreadlord]

I worked across the street from the most hilarious company name ever: Flim-Flam Auto Sales. I asked around and apparently that was truth in advertising, the guy ran a very crooked used car business. It went under not long after.

[Doc Byte]

I worked across the street from the most hilarious company name ever: Flim-Flam Auto Sales.

Maybe a TDE player? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Machiavelli]

When Wal-Mart entered the German market they tried to establish their US-style of making the employees be ultra-friendly, greeting the customers, offering help, presenting the daily/weekly special offers...
They failed miserably. German customers are not used to this kind of behavior and don't want it. Basically, we expect store employees to be invisible and inaudible until we ask them for (specific) help. Some total stranger who greets you like a friend and starts blaring special offers, follows you around with a wide (and obviously fake) smile doesn't make us feel welcomed but hassled and watched.

THAT!!! But the disadvantage of this kind of behaviour is, that you never find an employee if you really need one to actually help you. (Yeah OBI-hardware-store, i am talking about YOU)^^

[Adarael]

That's not just Germans, I assure you. As an american, that's what *I* want, too.

[CanRay]

I have a way of handling those people: "Hello, can I help you?" "Are you a licensed psychotherapist with experience dealing with clinical depression and anxiety disorder?" "Um..." "Then, no, you can't help me."

[Whipstitch]

Super friendly staff is in large part intended as a flimsy cover for the fact that constantly supervising people helps cut down on petty shoplifting.

[CanRay]

Oh, right, the "Treat everyone as a criminal" thing.

Stores back home found out that banning large purses and students school bags soon ended with them not having those people as customers. Especially the students, due to them having their entire lives in their bags.

[KarmaInferno]

Yeah, the US has discovered that people will tolerate a lot more crap if it's disguised.

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)





-k

[Whipstitch]

Oh, right, the "Treat everyone as a criminal" thing.

Stores back home found out that banning large purses and students school bags soon ended with them not having those people as customers. Especially the students, due to them having their entire lives in their bags.

Oh, some people got mad about that stuff here too. Thing is, if virtually every store does that policy your options are basically you either stop buying things or to leave the bag in your car and suck it up. And ultimately, a lot of just don't really mind the idea that employees are expected to keep an eye out for shoplifting.

[CanRay]

Car?

Car?

HA!

Students in Northern Ontario are lucky to have a car. And, if they do, they're likely living in it due to tuition.

[Whipstitch]

College towns tend to make allowances for that sort of thing. Honestly though, I didn't really know anyone who practically had a bag grafted to their hip when I was in college. Plus, if I was a store owner, I'd say starving college students would be number 2 after high school students on the list of customers I wouldn't mind alienating. Beyond that, there's a difference between having signs and store policies and actually enforcing them. Most stores don't want you lugging around a bag big enough to stow hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise in, but that doesn't mean every one who works there is willing to raise a fuss over a messenger bag.

That, and where I went everyone either had a full ride scholarship or parents who didn't mind buying you a car. I don't really know anybody who ever had a problem with the situation, except for a black guy I knew, and that wasn't really about the bag but rather about the old dude behind the counter being a dick.

This post has been edited by Whipstitch: Jan 13 2011, 09:44 PM