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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch
If only some kind German subsimmer would promise to make you a literal translation of the original language!
But not in .docx format!  |
I'm pretty sure when der Alte says the line about them spotting the 'scope, the first phrase is "kaum zu glauben" which does translate to "hard to believe" or "[it's] barely believable" or perhaps in more graceful English, "It's almost unbelievable that they spotted our 'scope in this weather" (or "these seas," whichever it is, I can't remember).
And, yes, this is how I'm learning German. By listening far too closely to little bits of dialogue in
Das Boot, using my knowledge of German phonetics to figure out how what they're saying is most likely spelled, and then looking for the words I think I'm hearing in my German-English dictionary until I stumble across a phrase that matches what I'm hearing and fits the context of what the characters are talking about.
At this rate I should be fluent in German in about, oh, 300 years or so.
