Friday foolishness: foreign words

[Chase, Jeffrey]

Not necessarily all that suspect.  I knew a LOT of GIs in Germany who
thought the kaserne was located on Einbahnstrasse.  For the first couple
days, anyway...

When they got brave enough to venture off-post for the first time to get a
sausage or some fries at an imbiss (a small snack stand), we would ask them
to pick us up a strassenbahn.  Invariably, they returned muttering that "the
lady kept pointing at the streetcar".

An initiation of sorts.

Jeff
Jeffrey E. Chase
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis R. Preston [SMTP:preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:06 PM
> To:   ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Friday foolishness: foreign words
>
> Suspect indeed. My favorite (or one of them) is about the old Polish
> villagers who go to Berlin for the first time. They speak no German. They
> park their Warszawa and carefully write down the name of the street so
> that
> they can at least show it to German-speakers and get back to it. After a
> day's fun in the big city, the show the sign to numerous passers-by, but
> all of them shake their heads and walk away. Their paper noted that they
> were parked on "Einbahnstrasse."
>
> dInIs
>
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