Comments by "Henning Bartels" (@henningbartels6245) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1. I was once asked: what language do people speak in Germany? Actually it is probably a legitimate question, but at this moment I thought: what question? - it is so obvious: Germany = German. So (because it was at a party) I wanted to be funny and answered: "we speak Austrian". What now followed seemed dump because nobody laughted and they took it as a serious answer.
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  2. There is another difference with using the silverware. When Americans are just using the fork there is a tendency to rest the other hand in the lap underneath the table. That would raise eyebrows in Germany, because they are taught (no matter what) both hands have to be always visible on the table.
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  3.  @StephenRosenbach  for me as a native German spoken Yiddish is sometimes easier to catch than to read phrases - I believe the transliteration often follows English pronucation and spelling rules which makes it confusing for me. So "Zog Nit Kayn Mol" uses an English "z" and "ay" which you have to realize...
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  4.  @StephenRosenbach  thanks for the detailed information. "zog" is just confusing for me at first glance, because it is a cognate to "sag" in Standard German and I would have transliterated it with "sog". While "zog" also exist in Standard German, but is the past of "ziehen" (to pull).
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  5.  @StephenRosenbach  so according to the chart vowels are written in Yiddish. This is unlike in Hebrew, isn't it?! Btw, we would spell it "meschugge" and I would rather used it like: Das mach mich total meschugge. = (this and that) drives me mad. On a funny side note: I enjoyed when Mike Myers played Linda Richman on SNL and threw some Yiddish words in his sentences - though I don't know how accurate this type of parody was.
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  6.  @ZER0ZER0SE7EN  there are so many stories and hoax about Pres. Obama, if you are lucky half of it is true.
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  7.  @76arga  what Polish? Don't get it.
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  8. * feetjo
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  9. My grandma made hot chocolate soup for me as well when I was a kid - but usually for lunch. She was from North-East-Germany. Maybe its a regional thing? It's more a thinner, warm chocolate pudding. It is made with additional eggs: while the yolks are mixed amoung the soup, the egg whites are beaten and formed to a sort of dumplings and are added to the soup in the last minute. Through the remaining heat these dumpling get stiff. It sounds that Sarah Chalkes grandma did a simular effect with the whipped cream on top.
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  10.  @rudelverni  , I totally agree with you and made simular experiences with English or American friends: you can have a whole conversation over the weather and they still don't get your version of "wind" because it sounds a bit like "VindT" as Felicia has described it.
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  11. Just in case somebody thinks about it, I already own all rights for Spray Mett and Spray Zwiebeln for the US market. ;-)
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  12. The Austrian "Eierschwammerl" would be "Pfifferlinge" in Northern Germany or chanterelle in English. Though the usual Golden chanterelle seems to be only native to Europe, there are many more similar varieties from the same mushroom family, with a few varieties also native to the US. There are canned chanterelles here in Europe, but they don't taste the same - they are preserved in some acid water. The fresh mushrooms are much better.
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  13. Roland, I would say, Yiddish is rather based on old Southwestern German. When a Yiddish speaker uses "tell" then it is most likely borrowed from English than from the North German "vertellen".
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  14.  @bramjoziasse , is this the influence of former Dutch colonies like Indonesia?
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  15. it is rather unusual in public toilets in Germany, even to find such a sign. Normally, public toilets have also urinals - so the question whether to sit down to pee becomes obsolete. I would guess, you would find such sign maybe in a small cafe which has only one unisex restroom.
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  16. none of both invented anything.
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  17. Germany as a nation state came about in 1871. So details at the entry to the United States could be confusing - depending on which time the came. Immigrants from the Alsace region could be registered as German in on decade and as French in the next. Austrians or Swiss could be registered seperately or as German as well... and so on. Simular to the dna results: it is very hard for those commercial tests to tell Germans, Austrians, South Tyrolian, Swiss, Nothern French, Belgian, Luxembourgian or Dutch apart if not impossible by those genetic traces. Often they are just grouped together.
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  18. Gary, her first name was Melitta , which is still a popular coffee filter brand in Germany.
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  19.  @Serenity_Dee  *Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch. the is an ad promoting the Southwestern region, which is often high tech but has a thick accent.
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  20.  @Vertifuge  have you been exposed to various British and Irish regions yet? I think, you will change your judgement.
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  21. *German's
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  22. to give you a perspective from inside Germany: The German language is the key criteria of German identy. That is how the state came about, when 150 (or 200) years ago efforts were made to UNIT all GERMAN-SPEAKING people. Historically the territory was all kinds of seperate kingdoms etc. Therefore it feel dubious for someone from Germany, if they meet people who say they are German or partly German and don't speak the language.
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  23.  @StephenRosenbach  did you know that Germans wish for happy new year: guten Rutsch! = (have a) good slide! - which is a bit odd. So some believe that the odd "Rutsch" came via Yiddish from Rosch ha-Schana, which linguist debate. Some Polish speakers use Kurwa all the time, but more in a sense of the f-word or 'dammit'.
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  24. it is rather unusual in public toilets in Germany, even to find such a sign. Normally, public toilets have also urinals - so the question whether to sit down to pee becomes obsolete. I would guess, you would find such sign maybe in a small cafe which has only one unisex restroom.
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  25.  @jamescook7796  you might be right ... I can imagine they come from this American paper bag culture to cover up your alcohol ... they are just nicer than paper bags.
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  26. Well there is two things to consider: After the war there were a lot to refugees from the former German East. In some regions every second or third person was a refugee. That let to an development that people spoke less local dialect to understand each other. And after the war mass media like radio and tv were more consumed which also let to a certain type of standardize German.
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  27.  @cameronduff884  lantern walks do exist both in Catholic and Protestant areas in Germany. Therefore I doubt it is related to Martin Luther.
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  28.  @cameronduff884  beer was made by people in the middle East already 10,000 years ago. the blitzkrieg strategy was developed in the end of ww1, when young Adolf was just a simple soldier.
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  29.    I find it weird when US Americans get confused about the terms "Hispanics" and "Spaniards".
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  30.  @PaulMcElligott  also the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire is related to deportations, death marshes and concentration camps.
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  31.  @MS-io6kl  I#m not so sure when you actually would use "between a rock and a hard place"?! So it seems more like "zwischen den Stühlen sitzen" (lit. sit beetween the chairs) or "zwischen Baum und Bork" (lit. being between trunk and bark) when you can't deside for either side or don't want to take sides. Devil and Beelzebub I only know from the idiom „den Teufel durch Beelzebub austreiben" if you try to overcome one evil by creation a worse situation. For plague and cholera it is the term "die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera haben" to choose between plague and cholera - meaning you you have to choose one evil or either decision will be bad and I think the English equivalent is: to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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  32. Part of the story of von Steuben is also that his further career in the Prussian military was critical due to allegation of homosexual actions. Starting in America could have been a welcome opportunity.
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  33. did you know that the Swedish chef is a Danish cook in the German version?
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  34.  @BanjoSick  I don't get the connection between one of my comments and a metal song?!
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  35. Recently, I came across a recording someone made secretly when Hitler spoke in private with the Finnish president. I found it intresting, because he sounded rather normal with a slight Austrian accent - and not like the screeming lunatic from his public speaches.
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  36.  @andreasrehn7454 , would that be the hand you would use on the loo?
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  37.  @geoffpriestley7001  interesting... so what you do with your hands at the dinner table?
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  38.  @sadee1287  It never came to my mind to tell other cultures what to do. Those social standards are a well balanced system in their culture and table manners are a way to show respect to the others on the dinner table or to the host. Those standards might be different in your environment. In the States there were various immigrants from all parts of the world, so you had to agree on different standards. One just has to know or be aware of these differences, because they lead to misunderstandings. For a German or other European resting the hand in the lab while dinning would leave a dubious impression.
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  39. Traditionally, the southern part of Eastern Germany and the truely western part of West Germany were heavily industrialized. In the 40 years of division the southern part of West Germany experienced a boom, while East Germany had to dismantle industrial infrastructure and send it to Russia as a war reparation. After the unification a privatization process of the formerly state owned factories was installed in East Germany. This process unfortunatly was more focused on the revenues than maintaining factories or jobs. It got out of hand and let to a nearly complete de-industrialization of East Germany in the 1990's with mass unemployment and so on. When the politics realized the consequences it was already too late and it took a lot of effort and tax subsidies to stop this process and slowly establish new industries in the East.
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  40.  @franzi3215  a "9" and "g" are generally not written the same by Germans. The "tail" of the g is not open, but rather cross the downward line.
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  41.  @solaccursio  Do you know, what this about? I've seen it on other youtube channels as well: Comments with the same name or profile picture pop up and want you to call. Usually, those accounts have hardly any subcriber and were recently created. What happens when call ... I mean, then eventually you will find out: it is not Feli.
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  42. The world needed this video to get rid of antiquated misconceptions!! Bravo!
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  43. * die Nase reinstecken ("einstecken" has slightly other meanings) Usually a phrase would be: * die Nase in etwas stecken, das ihn/sie nichts angeht
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  44.  @FreezyAbitKT7A  so when every sausage is alreday spray made, then there's still one thing every American household is lacking: a Wurst Fountain!!! Order now and receive it in time to surprise your loved ones for Christmas.
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  45. Erika is not such a bad song, but was misused by marching routines especially in the nazi era.
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  46.  @hellkitty1442  I'm from an area north of Thuringia. Dumpling as a side are not very common here, rather potatoes in various forms. People used their creativity to come up with recipes for leftover potatoes - like fried potatoes, potatoes salad or pancakes from leftover potatoe mash. Though, from old bread they made "Arme Ritter" - a sort of french toast, or "Klump" - oval shaped dumplings for soups.
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  47. Living south of the border in Kiel you can recieve two Danish channels from my cable provider. It is so difficult to listen to a movie or talk show. If it is writen on the screen e.g. like the questions in a quiz show it helps and understanding gets better.
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  48. Grützwurst gibt es in vielen deutschen Regionen mit unterschiedlicher Rezeptur und Namen. In meiner Region heißt sie "Lose Wurst" und wie der Name schon sagt, ähnelt dem, was Feli auf dem Teller hat: ein angebratener brockiger Brei ( und kein Fleischklops, Boulette oder Bairisches Fleischpflanzerl)
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  49. Nowadays, in contempary German it sounds disrespectful to use "Fraeulein".
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  50. @Micheal, adding apple and some spices like cloves, laurel and allspice is a pretty standard procedure to make Rotkohl. Though this might already If you really want to give it a secret twist you can add some sour cherries or some red current jam.
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