Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

 --- "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> schrieb:
> Are you kidding?
>
> I live in *Texas*. You know, the place where Chuck
> Norris is always right
> behind you, ready to pounce if you get caught doing
> anything Untexan.
> "Y'ain't f'm 'round here, are ya."
I get a much clearer image of George Bush (the
unelected one) doing the same; I'm too young to be
familiar with Chuck Norris.

And I spent most of my earlier childhood in Texas (the
Austin area)! Oh, the shame!

> (My speech is Midland, not South Midland: more like
> Kansas than like the
> rest of Oklahoma where I grew up.)
>
> Of course, it was no better when I was living in
> Bavaria. The locals saw
> me as a Preiss, if not a Saupreiss. They generally
> didn't know I wasn't
> German, otherwise I'd've probably been a 'Saupreiss,
> ameriganischer'.
Ha!

In a conversation with a German friend of mine, she
made the remark that I sounded very Bavarian. For
background purposes, my native accent is standard
(i.e., 'Midwestern') American, leaning a bit towards
Southern, thanks to all but five months of my life
being spent in the South.

Anyways, she made that remark after laughing at my
saying something like "Draussen ist sehr heiß ,
nicht?" ("It's very hot out, isn't it?"). I'm pretty
sure she was laughing at me using 'nicht' to mark tag
questions. Tell me, are tag questions particularly
Bavarian?

Then again, she seemed to have something against
Bavarians (she was from Hamburg). The only other
German in the school, besides another exchange student
from Hamburg (whom she also disliked), was an American
born and, for the most part, raised in Bavaria.

He used articles with proper names, which I find
awesomely cool, if a bit comical. I'd use them myself,
if I felt brave enough.

Grüß,
——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


	

	
		
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