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peteru:
While on the way to Belgium (for a beer tour of course), I spotted this car in a German car park:



themadhippy:
reminds me of this old story


An old raf veteran  was giving a talk during assembly at a posh girl's school, and was recounting one of the many dogfights he took part in during world war 2

"I had two fuckers to the left of me, two fuckers to the right, another two fuckers below, and one fucker coming in from the sun"

At this point the headmistress went pale and interjected "I must inform you girls that there is a type of aircraft called a fokker spelled f-o-k-k-e-r"

raf veteran  replied "That may be true madam but these fuckers were in messerschmitts""
ebastler:

--- Quote from: peteru on July 05, 2021, 01:54:46 pm ---While on the way to Belgium (for a beer tour of course), I spotted this car in a German car park:



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Which is pronounced "fycker", due to the umlaut dots. So Germans, even those who know English, won't raise an eyebrow at this.  8)
TimFox:
When reading the classic "On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music" ("Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik"), by Hermann von Helmholtz (1863), I was very impressed by his early work on synthesizing musical notes, since he adjusted his apparatus to produce German vowel sounds, which I could never do properly in German class.
McBryce:

--- Quote from: ebastler on July 05, 2021, 04:08:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: peteru on July 05, 2021, 01:54:46 pm ---While on the way to Belgium (for a beer tour of course), I spotted this car in a German car park:



--- End quote ---

Which is pronounced "fycker", due to the umlaut dots. So Germans, even those who know English, won't raise an eyebrow at this.  8)

--- End quote ---

An English speaker won't understand the "y" in "Fycker", they would read that like the German "Feiker". For English ears/readers it would be "Fou-ker".

McBryce.
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