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My Kid's Band is Touring Western Europe starting 19 Jan 07!

 
 
sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 04:33 pm
I love how everyone got the memo in the group picture. Black and red, people!
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 04:58 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Speaking about Austria (again: great pics, swimpy!):

in the February 9 copy of the regional paper "Kleine Zeitung - Kärnten" we find on page 41 ...

http://i3.tinypic.com/2gvvb04.jpg


... this announcement for the concert:

http://i14.tinypic.com/2napwxz.jpg


Wonderful! do you have a link?
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:00 pm
CalamityJane wrote:
Ah, beautiful pictures, Swimpy. I actually walked up to the castle in
Salzburg - what a view from up there....

Isn't the food outrageously good in Austria? The desserts are out of
this world.

I'm getting hungry......


I had great food in both Austria and Germany, CJ. I can't beleive i didn't gain wiehgt! Must be all the walking we did Laughing
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 05:01 pm
sozobe wrote:
I love how everyone got the memo in the group picture. Black and red, people!


Would you believe it wasn't planned? Makes for a great picture though.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 1 Mar, 2007 10:38 pm
Swimpy wrote:

Wonderful! do you have a link?


No, it's from the (online) print edition ... on subscrition.

I'll try to email it.
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urs53
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:04 pm
Swimpy, I am glad you had such a good time. And I agree with CJ - the food in Austria is wonderful. They talk funny but I do like the country.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:15 pm
urs53 wrote:
They talk funny but I do like the country.


Exactly what I think, too.














About your part of the world Laughing
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urs53
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:18 pm
Walter! We do not talk funny! We talk schwäbisch!
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:30 pm
Heilix Blechle, I didn't say anything different :wink:
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:37 pm
urs53 wrote:
Swimpy, I am glad you had such a good time. And I agree with CJ - the food in Austria is wonderful. They talk funny but I do like the country.


Ian first learned "high German" and had a difficult time adjusting to the way people talk in Austria. I have to admit that I can't tell the difference since I can't speak German at all.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:41 pm
Swimpy, contrary to my two fellow Germans, us Bavarians can understand
them and the Austrians perfectly well. Those Prussians (Walter) and
Swabenian-Sweds (Urs) are just soooo dialect-narrow-minded. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/standart/don-t_mention.gif
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:42 pm
One thing I did observe about the Germans is they like their rules.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sat 3 Mar, 2007 12:48 pm
That was the main reason why I left Germany, Swimpy Laughing
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urs53
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 10:22 am
That is so true, Swimpy. I try not to be so very German in this regard. But sometimes I surprise (and almost scare) myself.

CJ, that's what my brother says...
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 10:42 am
You see!! Where is your brother, Urs?
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 11:28 am
Getting back to the subject of dialect, the Austrian farm mother (she's the one sitting next to me in the group photo)said to him when he first came to the farm, "I'd rather speak to you in English that try to understand High German." So I think there's some difficulty from both sides.

It was also funny to me that most of the folks I met in both Germany and Austria, thought I was from England.
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CalamityJane
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 11:41 am
That's interesting. Do they speak with an English accent in Iowa? Laughing
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 11:50 am
Not exactly Laughing I figured that they pick up on the language but not the accent. I can't tell the difference between High German, Bavarian German and Austrian German. I just know it's German.
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Thomas
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 12:21 pm
Swimpy wrote:
It was also funny to me that most of the folks I met in both Germany and Austria, thought I was from England.

That was probably an accidental compliment. I bet you made an effort to say at least a few words in German.

In my experience, this is a fairly typical gesture of goodwill for British tourists to make. American tourists, by contrast, make it quite rarely. They tend to act as if Germany was a theme park, and its inhabitants theme park employees responsible for speaking English and for generally making sure the Americans have a good time. When Americans show modesty and respect for the indigenous language, Germans find this surprising, appreciate it a lot, and easily confuse it with English manners.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 4 Mar, 2007 12:31 pm
Hmm. A lot of truth in that: we had a lot of British soldiers here (= British Zone) and some dozens Americans (= officially not excisting since belonging to a "secret" missile basis).
But ordinary Joe identfied them like Thomas described .... if "Hawai shirt" didn't work, that is. :wink:
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