Comments by "charles stuart" (@charlesstuart7290) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1.  @emteemac  I was just pissed off with my high school German teacher who wouldn't admit that Kennedy made a goof just after we had the lesson that talked about omitting articles for national or civic identification.
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  2. The most popular youth participation sport in the US is soccer/football.
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  3. It's funny that Herman the German says he has never heard that name - since among English speaking historians they call Arminius - the victor of the German forces at the Teutonberg Forrest over the Romans - handing them the greatest defeat in the Empire's history, "Herman the German".
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  4. Home office has traditionally meant in English the office where your company's central office where the officers of the company would be domiciled along with the company's main administrative structure and personnel.
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  5. Also the term "sturm und drang" which is a common word in academia that   most people are familiar with.
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  6. Like Homer Simpson?
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  7. also weltanschauung commonly used in US
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  8. There are a few Yiddishisms  that are used in Britain but not widely in the US like "Gazump  a swindle often referring to real estate.
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  9. Alles Gluck der Welt!!
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  10. I'm from Boston -so we don't have Skyline, but I loved it when I visited many years ago, including conies (hotdogs) in steam buns with Skyline add ons.
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  11. I would also bring up Sophie Scholl and the White Rose with you.
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  12. Wasn't there a movie where a kid's Mother wakes up after being in a coma while in the old East Germany - and he tries to make her think the GDR is still around after she comes out of it after unification.
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  13.  @andreamuller9009  While Poland was still in the Warsaw Pact and starting to act independent of the Soviet Union the Polish government informed the Russians that any invasion by GDR troops would be met with force.
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  14.  @gordonschultz4788  Don't remember the use of red dog - it was always "blitz' in Boston and New England and I go back to the 50's.. the "Hail Mary" pass was called the "Alley Oop" after the caveman cartoon though.
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  15. Does the landscape of Cincinnati remind you a little bit of the Rhineland?
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  16. Schmutz is dirty in Yiddish. More like a piece of tissue or a piece of food on a piece of clothing. "You need to brush that schmutz off that shirt."
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  17. You might hear Hebrew though.
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  18. The reason Americans know the word "wunderbar" was because it was a hit song in a hit American musical comedy and film "Kiss Me Kate" that tried to mimic a German drinking song like in Romberg's "The Student Prince".
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  19.  @afasico9669  No its not a legend - You don't use the article when you describe a nationality or city resident in German.. If I am saying I am an American in German it would be Ich bin Amerikaner. The German bit was written by his speech writer Ted Sorenson who was not a German speaker. A Berliner was a popular German pastry so when he used the article "ein" that's what he said.
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  20.  @afasico9669  So you are familiar with what pastries were called in 1960? why did you pick that particular pastry. It's German 101 that you don't add the article.in that context. - Sorenson wrote it out for him - he knew no German . Of course everyone knew what he meant - but it was still a gaffe that people like you are trying to alibi.
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  21.  @afasico9669 So there was a pastry called a Berliner - whatever it was called or not called in Berlin at the time - this business with the Kennedy gaffe was widely publicized in the US years ago - I didn't come up with it. It's obviously a linguistic gaffe - by using the article he referred to the Berliner or the Pfannkuchen or whatever. This is a very old story..
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  22. I am old enough to remember the 70's, when there were some criticisms that concerns actions against extremism was a curtailment of free speech and was targeting left groups. The was actually a German word to describe this that I can't recall now. I asked the then present Chancellor Willi Brandt a question regarding this at a speech he gave at MIT in Cambridge MA.
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  23. It sort of like when I complained all the various grammatical cases in German to a German native speaker - and it was we just know it naturally.
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  24. Monty Python had the German joke that would end the War for both the Germans and the Allies.
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  25. If you lived in Massachusetts where there are strong gun laws and one of the lowest homicide by firearms rates in the country your concerns my be different than in Cincinnati.
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  26. Wanted to give you insight into the English word used in Germany "Smoker". From 1850 through about 1950 there was type of men's lounge jacket that had some popularity, originally associated with men leisurely smoking called "a smoking jacket" that seems to us now like a very fancy tailored bath robe that could even be worn outside. It was tailored for comfort unlike a lot of men - and women's- apparel at the time. Possible origin of the German "Smoker" association with formal wear tuxedo?
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  27. How about the term Alte Kaka?
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  28. You have to be Zaftig in a particular part of the feminine anatomy. It is not a synonym for chubby in Yiddish.
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  29. Just because English is a "Germanic language" doesn't mean its mutually intelligible with modern English.  Frisian is supposedly the closest language to English liguisticaly and it is largely unintelligible to an English speaker.
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  30. Apotheke -similar to the old American world Apothecary.
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  31. The American comic Cid Caeser also spoke fluent gibberish in ten languages.
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  32. An older American baseball term regarding a very fast pitch - "He really put some mustard on that pitch".
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  33. For am older person my English only family often used the term "Alter Caca" or "old shit" probably from Yiddish.
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  34.  @alexanderroberts5223  Like the situation in Germany - just an amusing coincidence - though even more so. I am sure the Browns didn't draft Jim because of his last name.
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  35.  @nathan2813  It is actually a take off on the Lenin saying regrading NEP - one step backwards - two step forward, so actually you might be more right.
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  36.  @nathan2813  As Dr. King said , I think, the arc of the universe bends slowly, but toward justice.
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  37. Larry David did a whole bit on Curb Your Enthusiasm about Sitzpinkler.
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  38. For number 14 we have an expression "It's the liquor talking".
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  39. It's interesting about the "Herman the German" bit, since many historians comically refer to Arimanius, the leader of the German tribes who gave the Roman Empire its biggest defeat , "Herman the German".
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  40. In the UK you get takeaway food - in the US you said take out.
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  41. Jeans are based on sail like material from Genoa Italy.
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  42. Knew  Portman was fluent in Hebrew - didn't even know she spoke German.  Bullock seems to be the real deal though.
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  43. Kissenger has a bit of a speech impediment in English - I'm not sure but I think its called a glottal stop- that makes his quite understandable but somewhat foreign sounding compared to his brother.
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  44. The Pennsylvania Dutch were not Dutch at all but Rhineland Deutsch.
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  45. A satirical skit during the Purim Service  - Purimspiel
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  46. Felicia - your friend has an American accent speaking English!
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  47. New York is the only place in the US where people will give you directions while walking vigorously in the opposite direction.
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  48. The short plays that are given during the Jewish Purim Services are referred to as Purim Spiels.
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