What I love about Men/Women/Relationships

PSA. Little voice to GQ. Make a move. Get her number. She wants you to call. What are you waiting for?? Now back to our regular program.

 

ROFL!

 

It's getting painful to watch. Helping the process along.

 

LOL, in due time. I have her contact info. When we link up oh you guys will know.

A brotha can't come across as too thirsty. :drinkers:

 

Go get it playboy

 

lol. Oh GQ, you are just too much fun.

Listen, don't think you're getting out of the judging competition, MF. I'm a woman of my word. First one to catch me, wins me..... lol

 

Loved Notre-Dame Basilica. And in the art gallery, I saw a Nigerian Yoruba fisherman wood carving, and I was totally blown away. I noticed many IR couples on the streets and in Mount Royal park too.

 

Yep, I just loved the vibe of the city and its culture. I speak French so I felt very comfortable and enjoyed visiting numerous times, since my school was like half an hour away from the New York - Quebec border, only 62 miles between Platttsburgh (New York) and Montreal.

 

Tu parles francais, aussi? Oh la la, je pense que je suis tombe amoureuse a nouveau. :smt055 lol

Oh, et je tiens a m'excuser pour ma grammaire. C n'est pas mon forte, et ma francais est un peu rouille.

 

Ah oui, je parle francais et allemande aussi mon cheri, avec un accent très bonne

On pourrait penser que j'ai obtenu mon diplôme de la Sorbonne

J'ai étudié fois langues à l'université. J'aime être une personne cultivée.

 

Alors, c'est officiel, vous sont fait pour s'entendre.

 

ROFLMAO, whiks!

 

:wink:

 

English you fuckers!

 

You are certainly a rarity, GQ! What do you do for a living?

I took French, Greek, and German...but my German is abysmal. Would be nice to have to use in Switzerland since the only words I know are Flughafen, Taxi, Hotel, and Bahnhof. LOL You know, the important ones..

 

, c'est vrai

 

LOL, Ja das ist richtig. In Switzerland they speak Standard German also called Hochdeutch (High German) in formal settings, the German we learn in college, but among themselves informally they speak Schwiizertüütsch, a variant of German that is unintelligible for Standard German speakers.

My German rivals my French. One of my favorite German worlds along the lines of those you mention above such as Flughafen und Banhof ist

Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten - (it essentially means overnight accommodation possibilities) when one is trying to stay at a hotel, inn or other places of lodging.

I'm an Archivist.

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Yeah, I have a good friend in Switzerland from our office and she helps me out. We had a long talk about the High German vs Swiss-German and why it's such a royal PITA. lol I told her that's why she's my friend. I will use her shamelessly.

...THAT WORD...I've seen that word! I made my friend pronounce it because I could not believe that those letters actually could be put together to make sounds. LOL

You're an archivist?! That's so interesting. I've always been so intrigued with old documents. You'd love the place I visit in St. Gallen, then. They always put stuff out...some of it is almost 1000 years old.. that you can look at. It's my favorite place.



I go every time I'm in St. Gallen. It's the Abbey Library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Saint_Gall

 

Not only that but the pronunciation is very different as well, its almost like they speak with an exaggerated Southern drawl, except they can't be understood because the words are different, unlike how we can still understand someone with a really deep Southern accent.

The key to getting those long German words mastered is to break them up during pronunciation into the individual words they are.

Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten (Übernachtungs - möglichkeiten)

Geschwindigkeitsüberschreitungen (Geschwindigkeits - überschreitungen)

The Germans love those combined words.

Its a career well suited for me, love cultures and languages, very organized and neat and love history.

If it wasn't for my lack of love of math, I would have gone into architecture, but I don't do numbers.

So you've been to Switzerland, never knew that. I love Switzerland and how it is so clean and organized in the little cantons. Very beautiful and quaint.

 

Yes, the Germans do indeed. I think that's why I didn't pick up German quite as easily as I did French and Greek. It drove me nuts. lol I couldn't stand the guttural pronunciations. Fortunately, all of our Swiss co-workers speak excellent English (and French, and Italian, and German, and Swiss German, and Spanish...soooo jealous!), so we rarely have issues understanding each other.

Ha! Math! Me too! I actually have a learning disability in math, so I can't reduce a fraction to save my life (literally, if my life hung in the balance of reducing 5/7, I'd die). That's why I went into English.

Oh yeah, I've been to Switzerland twice already. I am actually leaving to go back there on Wednesday because one of our big meetings is there every two years. It's a beautiful place. I'm a little nervous right now though, because I woke up this morning with a fever and feeling really achy.