Petike the Taffer on 2/5/2009 at 11:31

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Found it by accident on YouTube.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaugYown6GA&NR=1)

Probably done for an older German TV programme about gaming.

jtr7 on 2/5/2009 at 11:56

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Yeah, it ticked me off that I never knew about for years.:tsktsk:


Glad someone else found it!:cool:

Blue Sky on 2/5/2009 at 19:23

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I've never seen it, so thanks! Really enjoyed that. Especially the five minute sequence of the circus guy.

Are there no proper German words for any kind of computer related technology? Took me a couple of minutes to realise that the narrator wasn't actually speaking English. And then I felt really cool that I could suddenly understand another language. But I can't. And I'm not. :(

Beleg Cúthalion on 2/5/2009 at 20:24

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He mentions a lot of names at the beginning and since we do not adapt them to our own language like the French use to do they remain in English (plus, it has become common that English titles remain untranslated because everybody understands them, it's less work and there's the attitude of considering English names cooler than German ones... in fact the use of English names for German products has brought forth strange fruit on occasion). However, by now this video would probably contain even more English words like "game", which is used as a synonym replacement for the German word "Spiel" by now. :weird:

Not that anyone over here would thank me for nit-picking.

Petike the Taffer on 3/5/2009 at 19:38

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If you're really curious, have a look at this :

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlisch)

Beleg summed it up nicely in his previous post. :cheeky: German is becoming more and more anglicinized every year... :p