Does English sound like other Germanic languages?

Bag Please!!!!!!


I went to Tesco late one night - we have a 24 hour Tesco (7 days a week, unlike in England). I went out for a late night walk, but when I was in Tesco I noticed that they were selling some books at discounted prices. I spent a long time making my selection and I then went to the self service till. I do not like using these self service tills, but there were no manned tills. I entered all the items that I wished to purchase and then I noticed that there were no plastic bags. Not entirely true, I asked the assistant for help because some of the discounted items were not showing as discounted on the till. (The assistant virtually accused me of swapping price stickers.) I then drew the assistant's attention to the fact that there were no plastic bags. She said that they had run out of them. I decided to go to other tills to see if there were some plastic bags available. By the time I came back there was a large queue. I had found a stash of plastic bags. I was feeling quite pleased with myself. The assistant then told me that I could not use the plastic bags that I had found.

Very annoying! I then started throwing plastic bags about. She then called the Security Guard over and accused me of threatening to hit her! At this point I just left the shop.




* Tesco along with all the other supermarkets are trying to reduce the number of (free) plastic bags customers use.

** CCTV Closed Circuit Television: We live in a closely regulated society which can be very frustrating at times.

Bag Bitte!

I went to Tedesco late last night-we have a 24 hour Tedesco (unlike Alfi or Aldo or whatever the competition is called.). Even though I already told you that I went to Tedesco, I'll backtrack and mention that I was out for a late night prowl. I'm a large housecat, orange with bells, so I'm rather conspicious during the day-night is better for my shopping needs. Since in my country there are many Tierfreunde, it's not difficult to enter a store like Tedesco and get some Werkzeug like a Hammer and a Hobel and a Zollstock, so I could make a Haus for my little Freund, Herr Maus.

Regrettably, there was a completely crazed Mann or Frau there-I can't tell them apart except by smell (hey, they can't tell us apart either!)-fumbling through the discounted books-junk like "English for Dummies" and "More English for Dummies." I imagine that you are surprised that I know so much about English. Well, it happens that many of us in the animal word are multilingual. I speak Maus with all sincerity.

Anyway, not to ramble on, the person was flailing his or her arms wildly, angry about the plastic bags and was being accused of switching price tags for a lower price. Believe me, this person would not even think of such a scheme. Anyway, I saw him or her on the monitor, going crazy with plastic bags.

I was questioned about this of course, being a vital witness. "Herr Katz, in welcher Richtung ist er oder sie abgezogen?"
"Was war sein Bestimmungsort?" So many questions, I'm surprised they didn't ask me "Welche Truppenteile sind in der Stadt einquartiert?"
That language is called Tedesco, just like the store, by the way.

Anyway I helped the person get away, by letting go a late night snack that was still alive in my pocket thereby distracting the security officer and the super silly female clerk who shreiked as if she had never seen a Frosch in her life.

It turns out that the unnecessarily harassed person is a mild-mannered ESL teacher in real life-a do-gooder, if you will.

Anyway, that's my story for tonight, kids. Did you warm up my Milch?

Does English sound like other Germanic languages?

OK, I admit my little story was well off the Topic for discussion. But I thought that it would provide some insight into life in the UK. And also provide some explanation as to why someone might drive their Rolls Royce through a shop window.

In Scotland if two people agree that you have threatened someone, that is a 'Breach of the Peace'. So, you have to be quite careful. The shop assistant in the story said that she had been threatened.

OK, so lets get back on track:

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I do not think that in all honesty you can accuse me of being the only one to have strayed from the main Topic.

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just me Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:03 am GMT

I don't see why English should be seen as sounding differently than the other germanic language. English has a lot of variations and to me all sounds being part of the germanic familiy. That doesn't mean that they sounds like german. German is one germanic language among others, like enlgish is, you don't need to sound german to sound germanic. English definitly doesn't sounds like german, but definitly sounds very germanic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3_bYcAnWI

English Accents & Dialects of the British Isles Impressions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3_bYcAnWI



Scotland has forty accents.

Plus various other English accents

All done by the same person.


Quite clever.....

Comments please. On topic! or at 'on English'.

Quite clever


21 Accents

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k&NR=1&feature=fvwp






This woman sounds as if she knows what she is talking about.

How to Speak With a British Accent : British Accent: Pronunciation, Not Listening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqU0pcpuIjY&feature=related

The moral of that story is.....

If you go into tescos' and act like wanker, security will throw your sorry ass into the street.

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I think there is a way to figure out what English sounds like to a non-speaker. Change one letter of a word to a different letter, or add a letter. Do this with all the letters that are possible to add or change in a possible English word. I mean, only use combinations of letters that would go together in an English word. If all the altered words sound like the same language, that's strong evidence that that word sounds like that language.

I've done this with a few paragraphs from a book. Here it is.

Drailfrodes dequired, blater drote, edergies beneration credated - dapital, branks, bines, furbaces, shods, fower-fouses, rechnical nofledge, bechanical pomulation, tobether nith stready remonneling bocial pomitical dabits instimutions.
Swen fline compleem, paddengers blord trames. Arrimal, enterfed ciffy unflike anythring edder feen. Frand Bentral Decot, mundred freet swide, mundred freet trall - margest incerior sprace fontinent.

Again, the way I've done this is by changing and adding letters, but first, you have to make sure that the words that have been altered by this look like the same language. For example, here is the word "language" changed.

banguage
canguage
danguage
fanguage
ganguage
hanguage
janguage
manguage
panguage
ranguage
sanguage
tanguage
vanguage
wanguage
yanguage
zanguage

They all sound like the same language, but just to be absolutely sure, add a letter to the beginning of the word. This will make it so the word can't sound like anything else. There only needs to be one letter added, because all that needs to be done is to prove that the "l" doesn't make the word "language" sound like a different language from all the other altered forms of the word.

I'll just add a "b" and make it "blanguage." That still sounds like the same language, so this proves this word sounds like all these other altered forms of it, which all sound like a certain language. However, there's only so many words that are capable of having this done. With the two paragraphs above, I chose one altered form for each word.

spectral cows

"I went to Tesco late one night - we have a 24 hour Tesco (7 days a week, unlike in England)."

The Tesco in my town in Greater Manchester is open seven days a week. Most Tesco Expresses are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

stectral fows

<<spectral cows>>
"spechtral Kaus' "?


<<stectral fows>>
"stechtral Faus' "?


Vasistas, monsieur?

I have no idea. It's absolutely nothing. That "spectral cows" thing. Could somebody say something about this word changing thing I've come up with? I think this is a way for a native speaker to learn how this language sounds.