Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Nick Armstrong]

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/)

[teamsaint]

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".......

[Sir Velo]

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.

[Anna]

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.

[Nick Armstrong]

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 )

[Nick Armstrong]

Frenchie's Tuk-Tuk Alert!!! Bandits at 6 o'clock!!!

Whatever can you mean?

[teamsaint]

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.

[teamsaint]

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).

[Serial_Apologist]

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.

[teamsaint]

And either the bag must be very large, or the writing of the above thereon extremely small.

prolly went along the strap.

[Anna]

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.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm in that sort of mood ce soir.

Call me a rebel.

[BBMmk2]

Ah there was a Baroque composer called Rebel!?!?

[Nick Armstrong]

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

[Roehre]

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