Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

Quoting Muke Tever <alrivera@...>:

> From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
> >Quoting Muke Tever <alrivera@...>:
> >
> >> "schön" as in "danke schön" is always /ei/.
> >
> >Well, it is in certain mid-20th century popsongs, yes.
> >Outside of that, it would sound weird to me, since as
> >a phrase it's not the kind of thing that you usually
> >nativize.
>
> I've never heard it in any songs... only in speech.
Every seen _Ferris Buehler's Day Off_?  In the middle of
his trip to downtown Chicago, Ferris gets up on a float in a
parade for people celebrating their German heritage, and
starts lip-synching to an old song from the 50s or 60s
that goes "Danke [Sein], Darlin', Danke [Sein]..."

> I just now asked my sister (who is not a German speaker)
> what German for "thank you" was, and she said /dank@/..
> /dank@ Sein/.
I suspect that most people's knowledge of the phrase comes
from the song.

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