[HUG ] Re: SV: Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips

Eagle = Adler auf Deutsch
Adler = dork in English
Therefore...

Tom, you made me do it!

;-)

Jim


On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Tom Just Olsen wrote:
No. I looked up my 2000 word German/Norwegian 'tourist phrase book' (haben sie unterhosen hier? - type of a thing), but found nothing on 'dork'. My old 15.000 word German/Norwegian dictionary is somewhere in the house, - I'll look it up. We had compulsory 5 years with German in my time at school. I am not that good at it, but can find my way around Germany and handle simple phrases with a German telephone switchboard operators and so on, in my business. I speak German 'fluently' when I am drunk, they say. Just give me a schnaps and I'll be as good an orator as...well, forget it. 

Adlerhorst means eagle's nest, by the way.
I liked learning languages and regret that I did not take it more seriously. We had a few years of French too, but I make total fool of myself whenever I go with my wife to a Paris restaurant and try my skills, - my wife say. Her French is excellent. 

Tom of Oslo



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