tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post1259957339882575411..comments2024-03-25T17:27:38.456+01:00Comments on Itchy Feet: the Travel and Language Comic: Limited Creativity, Pt. 1Malachi Ray Rempenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-30777065539824277052016-12-08T23:47:17.719+01:002016-12-08T23:47:17.719+01:00Romance languages and other Germanic languages (Sc...Romance languages and other Germanic languages (Scandinavian cluster, Dutch, etc..) are actually easier to learn than German. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03108904901841216351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-49757650961389333722014-12-18T16:50:20.645+01:002014-12-18T16:50:20.645+01:00This is wonderful - I think it needs to be a comic...This is wonderful - I think it needs to be a comic of its own!Malachi Ray Rempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-88944006787622704022014-12-18T11:25:31.146+01:002014-12-18T11:25:31.146+01:00I'm German and what I love about German is tha...I'm German and what I love about German is that you can express almost everything precisely using ordinay words so that everybody can understand what you are talking about even not knowing a thing of the materia.<br />To give an example. I work in the air line business and whenever a plane takes off or lands a messages is send so that everybody is informed. This messages in English is called "movement". Quite logical but it can mean an endless forms of movemnts that do have nothing to do with air planes. The German word (that hardly anybody uses) is Flugbewegungsmeldung. Looks scary, doesn't it? But it's a composite of the words Flug-flight, Bewegung-movement and Meldung-messages. All of these words are common and known to ordinary people so everybody would know what it's all about. And there are much more examples like this.<br />On the other hand there are words that change their meaning completely just by adding a prefix and this makes it extremely difficult to learn. e.g:<br /><br />kommen - come<br />einkommen - income<br />auskommen - get along w. st. / subsistence<br />verkommen - degenerate<br />ankommen - arrive<br />abkommen - go astray deviate / agreement<br />umkommen - die<br />Nachkommen - offspring, descendant<br />Vorkommen - occurence, incident<br />aufkommen - emerge.<br /><br />Es kann vorkommen, daß die Nachkommen mit dem Einkommen nicht auskommen und umkommen<br />It may happen that the descendants do not get along with the income and dieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-56582458271244321442014-10-18T10:59:35.328+02:002014-10-18T10:59:35.328+02:00You're not being pedantic, you're just doi...You're not being pedantic, you're just doing your job! Yes, it should be "words-book." <br /><br />I will add "dust sucker" to the list for Part 3!Malachi Ray Rempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-81520688584021882312014-10-18T05:17:33.325+02:002014-10-18T05:17:33.325+02:00Great work! As a German teacher, I absolutely love...Great work! As a German teacher, I absolutely love this! Sorry to be pedantic, but shouldn't word-book be word(s)-book? Wörter is the plural form... Also, I'd love to see "vacuum cleaner" (dust sucker in German) if you do a Part III :-) CheersJeremy Wonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193326996016524932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-48121421292190264332013-02-05T14:36:49.268+01:002013-02-05T14:36:49.268+01:00So daring!So daring!Malachi Ray Rempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-45447366385882951762013-02-05T14:29:40.163+01:002013-02-05T14:29:40.163+01:00I've got a good one. Living in Graz atm, and t...I've got a good one. Living in Graz atm, and there's a Schloss on the Berg in the center of town. You get three guesses what they call the Berg. <br /><br />Yup. Schlossberg. Castle-Mountain. Yakovnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-27146946762143140302012-08-25T22:08:09.889+02:002012-08-25T22:08:09.889+02:00Glad you like it! I do enjoy German, not least of ...Glad you like it! I do enjoy German, not least of all because of its hilarious word combinations.Malachi Ray Rempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-67590257879778636662012-08-25T21:53:13.448+02:002012-08-25T21:53:13.448+02:00Hello. :) I'm half German and I like this cart...Hello. :) I'm half German and I like this cartoon. It's true that German nouns seem very simply constructed! Some of the 'scary-looking long words' are just 3 or 4 small words put together.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518919562780685453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-5921855599940660992012-08-07T15:47:03.990+02:002012-08-07T15:47:03.990+02:00Probably the same way as "apple" relates...Probably the same way as "apple" relates to the fruit.Waqar Saleemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17943521406197630934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-53171901177366467512012-08-06T15:46:01.733+02:002012-08-06T15:46:01.733+02:00I wonder how "Ananas" relates to pineapp...I wonder how "Ananas" relates to pineapple though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-12661418931958942402012-08-06T10:58:29.913+02:002012-08-06T10:58:29.913+02:00Good point! I'm sure we took our inspiration f...Good point! I'm sure we took our inspiration for those words from GermanMalachi Ray Rempenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12827725501736261649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-28102645885302295072012-08-06T10:01:54.870+02:002012-08-06T10:01:54.870+02:00Because English words like fireman and pineapple a...Because English words like fireman and pineapple are so much more imaginative.Philippehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11897222499213047546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-34408955808021495132012-08-06T09:03:36.888+02:002012-08-06T09:03:36.888+02:00Nouns yes. Verbs no.Nouns yes. Verbs no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-57435404893496659862012-08-05T16:58:51.263+02:002012-08-05T16:58:51.263+02:00Vocabulary is easy to learn, but when it comes to ...Vocabulary is easy to learn, but when it comes to grammar, it's entirely different.InventiveNicknamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13010850555451454690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238329353013891803.post-86530065230618112992012-08-05T14:54:49.123+02:002012-08-05T14:54:49.123+02:00I bet learning German is easy.I bet learning German is easy.Thameerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02290505322868497863noreply@blogger.com