Subsim front page article that pissed me off - Page 15

Bilge_Rat · 11-27-13, 08:32 AM

I donitz see how we can keep this up....

11-27-13, 08:41 AM

Well Frick! Don't get yourself in a Funk over it!

Jimbuna · 11-27-13, 08:43 AM

You Myer try a bit harder.

11-27-13, 08:54 AM

It's not Wirth the effort.

Jimbuna · 11-27-13, 08:58 AM

Well, you know what they say..."If the cap Fritz"

AVGWarhawk · 11-27-13, 09:22 AM

That's easy for Ulz to say.

Penguin · 11-27-13, 09:58 AM

Don't want to open a Kanne of Worms again, just my 2 Pfennig here.

Late to the thread, I'm sure I say nothing which hasn't been said over the last 15 pages. I agree that a machine can't have an ideology, therefore I think in reporting "Nazi uboat" is just as awkward as "Commie AK" - "Soviet gun" is ok, as this was the name of the country. Everyday language is a whoile different pair of shoes. During my daily utterances, I usually add Nazi to everything I dislike crappy automobilist: nazi-driver, bad music: nazi-sound, etc.

However the whole proportion is way off. I am happy that the subsim staff fetches some news for us, glad they provide the work and glad they stick to legitimate sources and no fringe websites. The Huffington post is a mass media, a very mediocre one too, so it's somehow explainable they use mass language, it's not a historic journal.
Looks like the Huff Post is also capable to report in more neutral language: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1713401.html

k, this Hess been enough.

back to the (very enjoyable

) lingo wordplay - it's much harder for a native speaker to come up wirth a clever one than I thought.

A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany?

Jimbuna · 11-27-13, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany?

I would usually think you were referring to either.

STEED · 11-27-13, 10:13 AM

Same here.

Herr-Berbunch · 11-27-13, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penguin

A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany?

The two wars, I wouldn't call your 212As U-boats, even though they belong to the 1. Unterseebootgeschwader.

I'm off to McDonald's now for my other job Stauffenberg-ers into buns.

kranz · 11-27-13, 10:37 AM

NAZI fighters

a NAZI building

a NAZI guitar player with his NAZI guitar

NAZI Confederates

a NAZI vase

11-27-13, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penguin

A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany?

Most people I know would ask "What's a U-boat?"
One Diels with the uninformed though. I don't want to Hirt thier feelings.

August · 11-27-13, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by kranz

nazi...

Too bad those weren't actual nazi's in your pictures because then maybe they wouldn't only be known for the blood and horror they inflicted upon the world.

On second thought, nope. That's all they'll ever be known for.

Bilge_Rat · 11-27-13, 10:57 AM

I still Manstein that this thread is petering out.

11-27-13, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

I still Manstein that this thread is petering out.

Maybe we should take a Pohl?

11-27-13, 08:32 AM	#211
Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,856 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	I donitz see how we can keep this up.... __________________

11-27-13, 08:43 AM	#213
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,124 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You Myer try a bit harder. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-27-13, 08:58 AM	#215
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,124 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Well, you know what they say..."If the cap Fritz" __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-27-13, 09:22 AM	#216
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,297 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	That's easy for Ulz to say. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

11-27-13, 09:58 AM	#217
Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	Don't want to open a Kanne of Worms again, just my 2 Pfennig here. Late to the thread, I'm sure I say nothing which hasn't been said over the last 15 pages. I agree that a machine can't have an ideology, therefore I think in reporting "Nazi uboat" is just as awkward as "Commie AK" - "Soviet gun" is ok, as this was the name of the country. Everyday language is a whoile different pair of shoes. During my daily utterances, I usually add Nazi to everything I dislike crappy automobilist: nazi-driver, bad music: nazi-sound, etc. However the whole proportion is way off. I am happy that the subsim staff fetches some news for us, glad they provide the work and glad they stick to legitimate sources and no fringe websites. The Huffington post is a mass media, a very mediocre one too, so it's somehow explainable they use mass language, it's not a historic journal. Looks like the Huff Post is also capable to report in more neutral language: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1713401.html k, this Hess been enough. back to the (very enjoyable) lingo wordplay - it's much harder for a native speaker to come up wirth a clever one than I thought. A question to the English speakers: When I say "uboat", would the other person assume we talk about German WW1/2 subs or does the word usually refer to all submarines from Germany?

11-27-13, 08:41 AM	#212
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Well Frick! Don't get yourself in a Funk over it!

11-27-13, 08:54 AM	#214
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	It's not Wirth the effort.

11-27-13, 10:13 AM	#219
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Same here. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

11-27-13, 10:37 AM	#221
kranz The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Poland Posts: 1,430 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	NAZI fighters a NAZI building a NAZI guitar player with his NAZI guitar NAZI Confederates a NAZI vase

11-27-13, 10:57 AM	#224
Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,856 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	I still Manstein that this thread is petering out. __________________