[lit-ideas] Re: Hubris - or prognostication?
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 00:54:44 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Response from German submarine: "Vee hear you loud und
> klar. Vat are you sinking
> > about??"
> In his hubris, her Majesty's submarine commander seems to
> have become confused about how British submarines were
> named/identified, or perhaps he thought the Germans might
> believe that one of their own U-boats was sinking?
Indeed this is warum the worte sehr funny is hier and also making it hilarious
the grammar that by the Germans are mistaking, when ask they not "In which of
the abouts is the sinking happening?" but "Vat are you sinking about?"
D
Also offering this to phatic for his Festschrift
Quiz Master: What was Hitler's first name?
Contestant: ...Heil?
Not mentioning the war
London
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