Re: Countdown to Release [2] SPOILER THREAD

[Eldorion]

This shouldn't be a surprise after the track listing came out but Mikael Persbrandt's agent has confirmed that his Beorn will NOT be in "An Unexpected Journey", appear in film two (and presumably three as well).

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article15780260.ab

[Pettytyrant101]

I should hope not if film 1 ends at the eagles!

[Norc]

you read swedish now?

[Eldorion]

No, but Google Chrome automatically translates foreign languages for me (albeit not that well, but good enough for the job).

[Norc]

cool, I don't need that did you know albeit is german?

[Eldorion]

Does it mean the same thing as it does in English?

[Norc]

yes

[Eldorion]

The things I've forgotten since I studied German.

[halfwise]

Just read Mark Twain's piece on the Awful German Language and it will all come flooding back.

http://german.about.com/library/blmtwain01.htm

[Eldorion]

Thanks a lot, I'm having flashbacks now.

{{{I lolled, though. }}}

[halfwise]

Or from other sources - Twain seems to have more distemper for the German language than just about anything else he wrote about.

A dog is "der Hund"; a woman is "die Frau"; a horse is "das Pferd"; now you put that dog in the genitive case, and is he the same dog he was before? No, sir; he is "des Hundes"; put him in the dative case and what is he? Why, he is "dem Hund." Now you snatch him into the accusative case and how is it with him? Why, he is "den Hunden." But suppose he happens to be twins and you have to pluralize him- what then? Why, they'll swat that twin dog around through the 4 cases until he'll think he's an entire international dog-show all in is own person. I don't like dogs, but I wouldn't treat a dog like that- I wouldn't even treat a borrowed dog that way. Well, it's just the same with a cat. They start her in at the nominative singular in good health and fair to look upon, and they sweat her through all the 4 cases and the 16 the's and when she limps out through the accusative plural you wouldn't recognize her for the same being. Yes, sir, once the German language gets hold of a cat, it's goodbye cat. That's about the amount of it.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
- Mark Twain's Speeches, "Disappearance of Literature"

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.
- Taming the Bicycle

[Eldorion]

Those are great. Twain is perhaps the most readable 19th century author I've ever come across (unlike the Germans!).

[CC12 35]

didn't he really hate jane austen

[Eldorion]

Yet another reason to like him!

Spoiler:

[halfwise]

they make Fyordlandian kids read Jane Austen?! What's the use of being a non-English speaker if they still make you read Jane Austen?

I guess it sort of makes sense because nothing ever happens so there's nothing to confuse a non-English reader.

[halfwise]

Oops, thought the Jane Austen note was from Norc. Guess there's no way to retract an entire post. Not that I didn't try.

[Norc]

hehe..

that german text is so accurate it hurts. I'm in the middle of all that right now.. S: but it makes sort of sense and we have a norwegian teacher now, so he knows how it is to learn german. Last year we had a german teacher, not that she wasn't good, she was, sweet and all, but she didn't know how frustration it was for us, growing up with next to nothing as genitive, dative etc. etc to suddenly be faced with 39 different ways of doing it, PLUS! irregular fucknuggets.. but I think I'm getting the hang of this

[Pettytyrant101]

Ah irregular fucknuggets- that takes me right back to German class!

[Norc]

auf Wiedersehen!

[Elthir]

A dog is "der Hund"; a woman is "die Frau"; a horse is "das Pferd"; now you put that dog in the genitive case, and is he the same dog he was before? No, sir; he is "des Hundes"; put him in the dative case and what is he? Why, he is "dem Hund." Now you snatch him into the accusative case and how is it with him? Why, he is "den Hunden."

And put him in the Brockenbores and he is dachshund.

Sorry.

[halfwise]

[Eldorion]

I have to say, I'm liking your sense of humor more and more, Elthir.

[azriel]

Mein Name ist Azriel, gott weiB ich will kein Engel sein :

[CC12 35]

Oops, thought the Jane Austen note was from Norc. Guess there's no way to retract an entire post. Not that I didn't try.

Truly loving someone means excepting them for who they are & not feeling as though you need to change them

[Eldorion]

Mein Name ist Azriel, gott weiB ich will kein Engel sein :

I sort of know what that means ... because my German class introduced me to Rammstein.



So I guess there was some good that came out of it.