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Re: CHAT: Unconventional pronoun systemsshow us yours!

From:Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Date:Friday, September 3, 2004, 20:47
 --- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
schrieb:
> If I should really going > to study > Linguistics or should better learn _Verlagskaufmann_ > (what's that in English?!) I don't know yet.
/Verlagskaufmann/ comes out as 'publisher or bookseller' in my dictionary. Sounds like an interesting line of work; right now, I'm wanting to go into genetic research, but since I'm a lowly first-year in college, I have the option of changing my mind.
> And yes, I'm also using "der", "die" and "das" with > names > occassionally.
Ehh... Just _how_ does one use /das/ with a personal name? Do I even want to know :-o?
> E.g. like in "Der Markus hat aber > gesagt, > dass ..." ("The Markus has said that ...") Maybe > this is > due to my mother coming from the south. She grew up > in > Lörrach, which is not very far from Basel, though on > the > German side of the border.
I learned a lot of my German slang from 'Lola Rennt' :). I assume knowing how to say "hurry up before the cops come" will come in handy some day... Regards, ——(der) Steven ===== "Alle Idole müssen sterben." "All idols must die." --Einstürzende Neubauten, "Seele Brennt" (Soul is on Fire) "Where am I? What is this thing called 'the world'? Who is it who has lured me into the thing, and now leaves me here? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?" --Søren Kierkegaard "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." --Franz Kafka, Journals ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 100MB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de