Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "AN AMERICAN'S FIRST TIME AT OKTOBERFEST! | Feli from Germany" video.

  1. As Feli explained in an other video, the word "Stein" is not German, and nobody knows where Americans got this term from. It just means "stone" and is sometimes used for the ceramic, as "artificial stone". Never for a glass. Correct term would be "Krug" which means jar. But Glas is OK also.
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  2.  @lisamirako1073  Right, and both don't know about it and think it's from an other language.
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  3.  @thatguy8869  i don't get the link to feel joy on beeing scared. Grimm brothers is ferry tales, it happens in your head, you don't see it. And scariest things is burning a witch and consider it positive. There is nothing bloody involved, nothing with ghosts or skeletons.also nothing with vampires or mummies. A poisened Apple.. and the victim survives.
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  4.  @V100-e5q  "the underground", as in London, does reflect the "U" in the name very good. To find something to reflect the "S" symbol for the Americans, suburban is a good reminder. And S-Bahn is a commuter train, nothing else. They all end in nowhere-land. Places where people sleep. They bringt people to downtown of one city. All other trains are for "travelling" city to city. In opposite to commuting. For Munich: Trains go to Augsburg, S-Bahn goes to Petershausen and Tutzing.
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  5. Compared to other places in Germany, it's 20-30% more expensive (8€ per liter is restaurant price). But you have to remember, they build a tent, they heat it, they have no cover charge or entrance fees, you don' pay anything for the music. It all reflects in the beer price.
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  6.  @danielfrei3109  That's what I said, but nobody ever used the term Bierstein in Germany, or did they ?
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  7. They "joy" of cut of arms and other bloody things is really not a thing in Germany. It's more Monsters/mummies/Trolls maybe a giant or a spider or a giant spider. And there is absolutly no habit of doing this at home at halloween.
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  8. Was there this year also first time, and I really liked the atmosphere. Party Music at night (some ACDC cover songs were I was), traditional music in the afternoon, also little internationalized playing "Auld lang syne" and so on. But you cannot do much more than eat and drink, and after 2 beer (it's over half of a gallon, for the Americans) I was done.
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  9.  @FelifromGermany  Jetzt sure, It's good for one hour. I mean it's 10€/5min, you've seen it all after a while. Of course with huge company you get into talking and stay longer, wait until somebody else does a ride etc.
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  10.  @V100-e5q  I don't think there are established translations, how to refer from one term in one language to another term in another language. There is the term "light rail" and some people consider this a tram, others commuter trains. There are so many approaches you can categorize transport. Something like "local trains" I could not translate to German, there is no meaning for it. A train is made to go somewhere else, how can they be local ? Traditionally they are divided by speed in slow and fast. So S-Bahn is what comes closest to local or commuter trains. The daily ride to the workplace. It means "inner-city-transport", you discuss if it includes suburbs or not. Geographs don't care for administrative city borders. They talk about a metropolitain area, which includes suburbs. Therefore, as in many other cities in Europe, the transport is called Metro, not caring for over or underground. The Term "Schnellbahn" was actually derived from the electric engines in Berlin. They didn't go faster, they just had better acceleration for start/stop than steam engines. So that's what was needed in cities. Due to early electrification, Berlin still uses an electric rail system, S-Bahn trains cannot leave S-Bahn tracks there. Everywhere else in germany S-Bahn is just an organisational term, nothing technical. As mentioned, for psychological reasons, people need to memorize the meaning of "S" and "U" symbol inside cities. So the translation should reflect this. Nobody talked about subways, cause exactly this would confuse people. It starts with "S" but stands for the german "U". So when speaking about german U-Bahn with Americans, better use the term underground. They will understand it and have no further question what the "U" stands for.
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  11.  @V100-e5q  Correct, as I said, it's city-centric and you just made fun if it would include suburbs or not. But railway itself is divided in "Long distance" and "regional" (not local). While in English, you rather call it "high speed" and "Long Distance". Each country does have it's own categories. I train like Bremen-Hannover with 30 stops, 90min, would not exist in USA. It's long distance, but slow, it's not commuting, so it's called regional. Involving more than one metropolitain area. And it's evolving and emerging over time. Long distance trains got fixed frequency, as only urban transport had before. Regional trains run on or as S-Bahn. It's development in process, so also the language, all the wording, is fluid.
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  12. Now, we would need a guy as old as you, to compare ;-) Music and rides changed for sure, the menu not that much, maybe more international tourists.
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