Michael Palin for President! Page 5

Quote: PhQnix @ September 10 2008, 8:30 PM BST

Ha! I avoided that trap! I've met you now Aaron, you're too nice to be racist.

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Wanna bet?

Anyway, everyone's a little bit racist.

Quote: Curt @ September 10 2008, 8:35 PM BST

I found out this summer that my grandmother's mother was German. Shocked I was! But not that it matters, the Dutch and German are the one in the same...right?

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Er, yeah, I wouldn't go shouting that in Holland.

Quote: Curt @ September 10 2008, 8:35 PM BST

You're right, he has got a lot nicer since his Spelling and Grammer Nazi days.

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Oh man, you must have done that on purpose?

Quote: PhQnix @ September 10 2008, 8:50 PM BST

You don't speak Hebrew as well do you?!

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No, I just like etymology.

Quote: PhQnix @ September 10 2008, 8:50 PM BST

Logically it was flawed. They wouldn't have invented an entire name for her. I still like my theory though.

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It is a good theory.

Quote: Finck @ September 10 2008, 8:52 PM BST

No, I just like etymology.

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Aah well. Did you study at university or are you just that clever?

What's the German word for etymology?

Quote: PhQnix @ September 10 2008, 8:56 PM BST

Aah well. Did you study at university or are you just that clever?

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I didn't study languages at uni. But I'm not that clever either. Must be magic.

Quote: Aaron @ September 10 2008, 8:49 PM BST

I do a good Russian! I really need to force myself to get on with learning it.

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Yes, you do!!

I didn't bring any of my books with me! Bugger. Oh well, I'm going home this weekend.

I also aim to learn Old English.

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 8:57 PM BST

What's the German word for etymology?

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Either 'Wissenschaft von der Wortherkunft' or 'Wortherkunft'. But we'd most likely just say 'Etymologie'.

Ooh! I like Wortherkunft!!

Well mainly just Kunft.

Quote: Aaron @ September 10 2008, 9:00 PM BST

I also aim to learn Old English.

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As in Chaucer?

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 9:03 PM BST

Ooh! I like Wortherkunft!!
Well mainly just Kunft.

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Alas, Kunft isn't a word. Herkunft is. It means origin.

Oh bums.

But herkunft will do nicely.

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 9:05 PM BST

Oh bums.

But herkunft will do nicely.

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There is some comedy to be engendered here, but not, I fancy, in the style of PG Wodehouse - and so I will leave it to other, more gifted, members to provide.

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 9:05 PM BST

But herkunft will do nicely.

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*snigger*

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 9:03 PM BST

As in Chaucer?

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I dunnooooo! Possibly. I've never read any. Like from the Middle Ages and that.

Quote: zooo @ September 10 2008, 9:05 PM BST

But herkunft will do nicely.

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How did I not do that on purpose?

The f isn't silent, you know.

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