unheilig/ The German Oma's and old fashioned German Worter thread. m/

[stefan]

[Ash]

totally awesome.

[Oddly]

Uber!

[Ash]

Just a simple and great voice with no frills, gotta like it. Plus, Germans and piano is like milk and cheese.

[Oddly]

Its simple and soothing and just a little haunting; fabelhaft!
Don't get me wrong, I love me some frilly embellishments, but one of the reasons I got sick of the whole symphonic metal thing right after it started was how overpowering and overly complicated the music became.
It often seemed like the vocals and the metal bit and the symphonic bit were all in competion instead of melding and complimenting.

This dude is just sublime.

[Heavy Matthi]

fabelhaft!

THank you for reminding me of this word, I like it so much

[Oddly]

Mit Vergnugen! Ja, sie spricht Deutsch. ;D

[Heavy Matthi]

Phantastisch!

Fabelhaft is such a cool word... I should use it more frequent.

Mehr davon!

[Oddly]

Dein Avatar ist total uber affen geil!

Hopefully you've heard that one at some point and I did not disgust you with disturbing imagery ~ its happened before with hilarious results.

[Heavy Matthi]

Hopefully you've heard that one at some point and I did not disgust you with disturbing imagery ~ its happened before with hilarious results.

Really?

And yes, I know that expression.

Its so cool to be reminded of words which werent
used for quite some time.

[Oddly]

My friend's grandmother aus Osterreich...I don't remember what we were talking about, probably some ridiculous nonsense from the 80s, and she heard me say that and she looked at me rather horrified. We had to explain to her that it was phrase the young people used to say to express their appreciation, haha!

Perhaps it wasn't so common down there or with her generation...good times! ;D

[Ash]

Another American with a German grandmother. Cool. German grandmother's are the best.

[Oddly]

Technically, Austrian, but yes, she is a most lovely and feisty woman...the whole monkey lust thing aside, I think she likes me too! She did give me a wonderful potato salad recipe. Lecker!

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[Heavy Matthi]

Nice! Maybe we should transfer all the last posts here to a new
topic. It could be named "German speaking Omas" or "Old fashioned
german words"

[Ash]

Nice! Maybe we should transfer all the last posts here to a new
topic. It could be named "German speaking Omas" or "Old fashioned
german words"

alright, I did just that/. Prosttt...

[Ash]

Technically, Austrian, but yes, she is a most lovely and feisty woman...the whole monkey lust thing aside, I think she likes me too! She did give me a wonderful potato salad recipe. Lecker!

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btw, what do you mean by monkey lust?

that is hilarious sounding..

[Oddly]

Hee!
It was a misunderstanding between my friend's Oma and myself; when I was sarcastically saying some cheesy 80s flick was 'totally super monkey cool' , his grandmother thought I meant somethin' else...

I guess 'geil' was not a popular word in Austria back in her day...good times!

[Heavy Matthi]

Its not unlikely that it wasnt popular at that time

But I dont use the word "geil" today either.

[Ash]

Ich sehen oft "Geil" auf You Tube responses.

[Heavy Matthi]

I noticed that you use "Kindergarten" as a loanword in english. Are there more loanwords from the german language?

[Ash]

Oft for one. Oft was middle english for modern often.

There's so many ... Bruder- Brother, Father-fader, Friend-Freund, Wolf... and on and on...

But it makes sense because English was original a Germanic language.. back before the Norman invasion of england.. when it got mixed with alot of French.

[Heavy Matthi]

Yes, I know, but I mean Kindergarten is a "new" german word and isnt changed at all.

[Ash]

I think it's been in use in English forever though.. in it's German form, but I could be wrong.

[Oddly]

Ham burger, Waltz, Angst, Zeitgeist, glitz, kaput, Wanderlust...there's a lot. Can't think of more as it is 3:45 am.
Lousy insomnia fairy.

[Ash]

Sauerkraut! Welches Ich seeeehr viel liebe.

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