Re: THEORY: Subject: THEORY: Word Order In Phrases

HCLE wrote:
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>* Incidentially, this festival's called "München Hoben". After consulting
>some mystified German exchange students, we THINK this is meant to mean
>"Munich, We Drank". Any Germanophone on the list with an opinion on the
>matter?
>
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>"München Hoben" ... doesn't make much sense, but you're actually right.
>"hoben" means "lifted" ("einen heben" -> "to lift a beer" -> "to drink").
>I have to add that "München Hoben" isn't actually a full sentence ... I
>suppose there's another reason why it's got this name ... but funny anyway
>:-)
We've got two theories why it got a such strange name; the inventors were
very drunk, or their German was very bad. Obviously, both might be true.

                                              Andreas

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