Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Seeing the funny side of the German language | DW English" video.

  1. It's just a cultural difference, to joke with friends, not with strangers. Somewhere else in the world you might start conversation with being funny.
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  2. And the bad thing for Germans: The word is the same as for "Excuse me". Now they don't know when to use sorry, and when Excuse me.
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  3.  @donuts564  'you're welcome' has more the meaning of "gern geschehen" and only in reply to "Danke". A dialog like "Bitte - Danke - Bitte" would be silly. The Bitte in front of Danke has more the meaning of "here you are" or "There you go".
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  4. it actually means, tearing down a tree.hitting is more anfahren.
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  5. You got the idea of construction. But you miss the idea of skipping all the "of" and "for" and "the". But you do the same in English, just most often with two words only. like frontdoor, backstage, ghostwriter, stakeholder. That's quiet common actually.
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  6. Karre = Car, it's fully germanic. Automobile is Latin.
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  7. Maybe, but's it's rather regional, maybe also generation dependent.
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  8. But Titanic started in Southampton.
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  9. OMG, stop watching before you die.
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  10. A laser is hardly used as a lamp or for illumination. Trooper, Spotlight, Searchlight .. you never use a laser for that.
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  11. That's all totally serious !
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  12. it's a tool, and a flower, shaped like the tool ;-)
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  13. One is the french import, the other one the english import.
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  14. Howabout Tom gave a TomTom to Tom.
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  15. That could come out sarcastic or cynic, if you tell this a German.
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  16.  @T-Bone99  In Austria it's OK. They are aware they don't speak german. But germans are not. For them, at least you have to say Hochdeutsch, to mean the same.
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