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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26523

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    That will do nicely...oh to be a linguist !
    You just need to be cunning



    (I just put 3 words into my favourite language dictionary http://www.wordreference.com/)
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25193

      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      You just need to be cunning



      (I just put 3 words into my favourite language dictionary http://www.wordreference.com/)
      I think I should point out that this is OT now, and that some people should know better !!

      now, back to Mr Schumann and " Puppenschlafliedchen".......
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • Sir Velo
        Full Member
        • Oct 2012
        • 3225

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post



        Using 'pithy' in the Germanic sense of 'very very long and multisyllabic'...

        But I know what you mean. Don't they just make it up as they go along and jam stuff together? So I reckon you'd get away with:

        Optimismusundabsonderlichkeitfaszination

        A clear case of schadenfreude.

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
          I think I should point out that this is OT now, and that some people should know better !!
          now, back to Mr Schumann and " Puppenschlafliedchen".......
          Yes, and I have deleted my post. And retreat, suitably chastised.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26523

            Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
            A clear case of schadenfreude.
            And the less said about the jolly old

            Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebsw erkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

            (the "Association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical service")

            the better!!!



            (There's no space in the middle of that word but out server doesn't seem to be prepared to believe it )
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26523

              Originally posted by Anna
              Frenchie's Tuk-Tuk Alert!!! Bandits at 6 o'clock!!!
              Whatever can you mean?
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25193

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Yes, and I have deleted my post. And retreat, suitably chastised.
                its the prefects who should know better !!

                But going OT IS very bad. It really is. Really.
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25193

                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  And the less said about the jolly old

                  Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebsw erkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

                  (the "Association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical service")

                  the better!!!



                  (There's no space in the middle of that word but out server doesn't seem to be prepared to believe it )
                  I wonder if they ever sold " John Bull" printing kits in Germany ? I guess they would have been called something else though...perhaps the "Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Freiherr zu Guttenberg," printing kit, or similar.#

                  (I think I heard he was next weeks guest on EC, so I at least am on topic).
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Serial_Apologist
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37589

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post


                    Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebsw erkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

                    (the "Association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical service")



                    (There's no space in the middle of that word but out server doesn't seem to be prepared to believe it )
                    And either the bag must be very large, or the writing of the above thereon extremely small.

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                    • teamsaint
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25193

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      And either the bag must be very large, or the writing of the above thereon extremely small.
                      prolly went along the strap.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                      • Anna

                        Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                        its the prefects who should know better !!
                        But going OT IS very bad. It really is. Really.
                        Yes, indeed it is. Prefects should be looked up to and not post dubious double entendres ..... Oh I'm sorry! <snigger emoticon> It was quite funny! In a very Radio 3 way, being in Latin.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26523

                          I'm in that sort of mood ce soir.

                          Call me a rebel.

                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            Ah there was a Baroque composer called Rebel!?!?
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26523

                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              Ah there was a Baroque composer called Rebel!?!?
                              Jean-Féry to you, mate!!

                              I dragged him into an Alphabet Associations clue only a couple of letters ago!!!

                              And...

                              .... thinks quickly...

                              you're quite right, Bbm... any Rebelliousness counts as ON-TOPIC this Baroque Spring!

                              Nice one
                              "...the isle is full of noises,
                              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                              • Roehre

                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                                And the less said about the jolly old

                                Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebsw erkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

                                (the "Association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical service")

                                the better!!!


                                and the pension funds of members of that association are

                                Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebsw erkbauunterbeamtengesellschaftsmitgliederrentenban ken

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