Russian Cossack

[loulac]

I won’t be as finicky as Simone on your personal way of spelling one or two French words but I’ll take the liberty of suggesting you replace” une jeune fille” by “une dame” when you want to book a hotel room. If you don’t, the receptionist will look around to find a teenager or a 20-25 year old woman. Those days belong to the past, you are a lady now!

If one day you decide to come to France I’m not at all worried : you won’t have to sleep under bridges, you won’t starve to death since you can order a menu and wash the food down with one of the best drinks you can find in the country.

[Simone]

Whooo

I am not finicky, I am choatic
And I just wanted to help... because when a prejudice fits then: most German has less sense of humor.
But in my case neither fits

Simone

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Simone

Whooo

I am not finicky, I am choatic
And I just wanted to help... because when a prejudice fits then: most German has less sense of humor.
But in my case neither fits

Simone

It was my error in typing etvas instead of etwas, and that's b'c I was speaking it as I typed and it's pronounced etvas. A silly mistake on my part.

And I also forgot that langsamer had but one m.

I took German in my Junior year in college so that would be 1960, a long time ago. I can get by speaking it, sometimes, but have not read it in many years. The reason I took it is b'c my maternal grandfather's ancestors were from Germany, Darmstadt to be specific, which I visited when in Germany. Family name Wigand/Wigandt/Wygant, take your choice but grandfather went by Wigand.

I also took 3 years of Latin in high school and just for fun would sometimes type something like:

Caesar geht trans flumen mit frumentum.

Carolyn