Thursday, March 11, 2010
How can you not laugh?
Sometimes, I laugh when I shouldn't.
Like last night:
I'm reading aloud in Deutsch Klasse....."blah blah blah......nachschicken" I stop then, "Nachschicken!" (pronounced properly) teacher looks up at me, puzzled look on her face. Then I say "Nachschicken!!!" (pronounced Knocks Chicken).**
Then, I laugh. I laugh so much everyone else laughs. With me, mfers, not at me.
Sometimes I don't laugh, out of fear:
Once I attempted to learn the tin whistle. I say attempted because I was hot for teacher, and therefore all learning went out the window. Especially when he said things like this:
"No. Von, blow harder. HARDER. There, just like that. Now blow more evenly. Bllllloooowwww slllooowwwweeeerrrr. Good. Perfect. Just like that."
I didn't laugh, wanted to, and ended up spitting all over my tin whistle instead.
I laughed about it for about 3 hours afterwards.
**Nachschicken means forward. I know. Weird. Not even close, where you could guess. Not like I'll ever forget that word now though.
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"Bllllloooowwww slllooowwwweeeerrrr."
Both these stories made me laugh!
LOL, German is such a hilarious language to speak. I took a year in college and loved just pronouncing everything, because it sounded like you were giving orders. I love how their compound nouns get crammed into ever-longer words, like "Umweltverschmutzung," which means "environmental pollution."
Was your tin whistle response, "I'm blowing as hard as I can, but nothing's coming out?"
This guy had a disturbing knack for making me laugh, even after he'd, for instance, engaged my assistance to demonstrate the old "thumbs-in-eyes" technique in a girls' self-defense course. He was even funny after the knee came up for just the slightest "tap".
I knew it was gonna be a rough go when he started off by saying, "A woman has to fight like a woman... nice and soft."
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