Wer kann auf Deutsch zu kommunizieren?/Who can get by in German?

[Buster's Uncle]

http://www.civforum.de/forumdisplay.php?18-Sid-Meier-s-Alpha-Centauri-(SMAC-SMAX)

...There's a little life there, and we can throw them some activity and promote AC2 for those who can manage in English.  The GotM can always use more love...

[Buster's Uncle]

Actually, they'd wanna know about the recent releases of the Yitzi and kyrub patches, too, and that stuff drives much more traffic than scenarios, so we can safely assume much more interest...

[Geo]

Pfft, that's Monaldino's turf.

[Buster's Uncle]

He doesn't moderate in SMACX - I looked.

I'd just like to get the word out - we get mentioned there; (I can pick up a word here and there auf Deutsch to productively look around) and I know without asking that we've got multiple Euros who can get by en allemand, and I'd like that in tedesco/en alemán capacity known...

[Geo]

Well, for what it's worth, I know enough German to know I'm worthless at it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Just that?



Ich hätte gedacht, dachte, ein gebildeter Flemm verwalten haben könnte ...
Ik zou gedacht hebben gedacht een opgeleide Flemm zou lukken ...

[Geo]

Ich hätte gedacht, dachte, ein gebildeter Flemm verwalten haben könnte ...
Ik zou gedacht hebben gedacht een opgeleide Flemm zou lukken ...

If that German line is as much hilarious as the Dutch one, you better stop using Google translate.

(I would have thought thought an educated [Flemm] would succeed...)


Actually, it is way easier to me to make myself understood in Switzerland then in Germany. Most people are multi-linguistic there and don't mind having mixed-language sentences/conversations.

[Buster's Uncle]

What's so funny?  That's an okay translation you give - I meant "manage".  I misspelled Flem or should have said Fleming or something?

I know I'm probably looking stupid whenever I use GT -I've been told, and Boddisey had to moderate a bunch of my Google Translate French to spare me embarrassment recently- but I can't even get by en français or Latine, which I studied long ago.  We're international, and I have to just take the hit from time to time.

[Geo]

Mmm, on further reflection, "educated" should be replaced with "trained", and "succeed" by "manage". So the meaning/translation goes more in the realm of manual labor.
"Fleming" would indeed be better. Especially when using a translator tool.

[Buster's Uncle]

Ah.  See my edit while you were posting.

I did say educated.  Educated people are more likely to be more multi-lingual and more fluent.

I can't begin to do anything about cultural idiom my ugly American self knows nothing about.

[Buster's Uncle]

...We've got a rule against mocking anyone's English as a second language, but nothing in there about mercilessly laughing at my Google Translate foreign language attempts. ...

[Geo]

...We've got a rule against mocking anyone's English as a second language, but nothing in there about mercilessly laughing at my Google Translate foreign language attempts. ...

There's a distinction. I wasn't mocking YOUR multi-linguistic capabilities, but Google Translate results.

[Buster's Uncle]

Your English is excellent, so I'm not mocking it when I urge you to look at what you quoted and reply "Wha'did I just say?"

[sisko]

@BUncle: you can try your luck with Armageddon

[Nikolai]

Ich kann etwas Deutsch Sprechen und Schreiben. Aber meinen könnenshaft ist nicht gut. Und ich habe est nicht Gebraucht für 10 Jahre.