Oh Germany, it is so easy to make fun of you.

fashionsnob · Mar 3, 2014

I am from Germany and have been joking with my employees that German is the most beautiful language. They worked hard to prove me wrong today and they created this... I thought you guys would appreciate it as much as I did. What's funny, I actually design/manufacture ties...

image source via Bows-N-Ties

Veremund · Mar 3, 2014

We call them Seidenkrawatte as often as Anglos call them Silk Ties. I'm not saying German isn't a funny language, but Krawatte is hardly the word to illustrate it. Some form of cravat is used in most languages.

Now Krankenhaus, that's a good one.

HansderHund · Mar 4, 2014

^ Schmetterling ranks up there as well

unbelragazzo · Mar 4, 2014

I actually love the sound of German and don't care for French. Call me verruckt.

blackbowtie · Mar 4, 2014

Veremund said:
We call them Seidenkrawatte as often as Anglos call them Silk Ties. I'm not saying German isn't a funny language, but Krawatte is hardly the word to illustrate it. Some form of cravat is used in most languages.

Now Krankenhaus, that's a good one.

Or Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung for "speed limit".

timotune · Mar 4, 2014

blackbowtie said:
Or Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung for "speed limit".

at least we have none on the autobahn

sebastianwr · Mar 4, 2014

timotune said:
at least we have none on the autobahn

So much touche!

(Guess we'll soon have all German-speaking members collected in this thread)

click here · Mar 4, 2014

I am slightly annoyed english is represented by the American flag :fu:

GBR · Mar 4, 2014

English they are ties although you are right to use the American flag and not the Union Flag.

blackbowtie · Mar 4, 2014

timotune said:
at least we have none on the autobahn

Yes, with that barrage of syllables, I would get rid of the speed limit on the autobahn too just so that I don't have to deal with that word with more frequency than I have to.

fashionsnob · Mar 4, 2014

click here said:
I am slightly annoyed english is represented by the American flag

Is this better?

Ianiceman · Mar 4, 2014

As stated, in English English we would just say 'tie'. I guess Americans use 'neck tie' to remind them where it goes, the same way as they go horse 'back' riding - is there any other part of the horse you could ride? (Don't answer that Derek!)

And the English flag is white with a Red Cross of St. George.

You're welcome.

Academic2 · Mar 4, 2014

Ianiceman said:
As stated, in English English we would just say 'tie'. I guess Americans use 'neck tie' to remind them where it goes, the same way as they go horse 'back' riding - is there any other part of the horse you could ride? (Don't answer that Derek!)

And the English flag is white with a Red Cross of St. George.

You're welcome.

While I suppose 'neck tie' might appear in print in the US on occasion, I can't recall hearing many American say it. It's just 'tie', in my experience.

Cheers,

Ac

Christopher Essex · Mar 4, 2014

Academic2 said:
While I suppose 'neck tie' might appear in print in the US on occasion, I can't recall hearing many American say it. It's just 'tie', in my experience.

Cheers,

Ac

Same for Canada - all I've heard used is 'tie'.

Michigan Planner · Mar 4, 2014

My wife speaks German and has some children's books in German. Our 3-year-old daughter likes to climb into my lap while I read the German version of Peter Rabbit in the loudest, angriest voice that I possibly can while she doubles over in laughter. But she only listens like that for about three pages before she takes the book over to my wife and has her read it to her properly.

Oh Germany, it is so easy to make fun of you.

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