[Lexicog] social change in lexicon

[Margaret Marks]

On 8/25/05, Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> wrote:


> Maybe you made a pun. What was it? 

I thought Bill meant "conversational", but I referred to "conservational".

> By the way, what do you think of German/Franconian humor, as you live in
> Fürth? 
> The Brits always say "The Germans have no sense of humor."

Do you know there's a German stand-up comic doing very well in Britain
now? I think he makes fun of the German stereotype.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/artikel/993/54939/

People say there's no High German humour, so the fact that the
dialects have humour is overlooked.
When I spent a year in German in the 1960s, at Berlin University
followed by Erlangen, I got on much better in Berlin than Erlangen.
Now I've been in Franconia for 22 years and I have reached the point
where Franconians will laugh at my jokes, at least....
 
> Get to know this local Franconian matador Emil or Eugen, a great humorist, 
> and let me know what you think about his sense of humor. You can ususally 
> listen to him on the radio Bayern 3 on Fridays between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. 

It seems to be Erwin Pelzig. I think I have seen him on TV but not
really watched. Thanks for the tip. He seems very amusing. I just
listened to a clip about PISA:

http://www.br-online.de/bayern3/comedy/erwin-pelzig/artikel/index/index.xml

If anyone else here has an opinion on German humour, there are a
number of clips there you can listen to. And here's his own website:

http://www.pelzig.de/

Margaret


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