Greatest German ever ?

[thomas]

A similar text on the futility of counting words, in English:
http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/p.../language.html

Excellent post, bossel. Very interesting!

[fixelbrumpf]

My favourite German is Chris Hülsbeck, a video game music composer who more or less provided the soundtrack for my youth. Yes, I'm that much of a dork. I also like Erich Kästner, my favourite German writer.

[TwistedMac]

I don't see what this topic is about.
Offending German and French?
Oh well, have fun.
*tries to speak "understandable" english just for twisted mac*

i got a bit sidetracked.. i think i was trying to offend the german.. >_<

j/k.. i never try to offend anyone but i do anyway (it just comes natural =P ), it's just the way it goes, don't mind my insane rantings

[nekosasori]

To get back to the original post in the thread, my vote has always gone to Johann Sebastian Bach.

[Hachiko]

Mozart upsetting Austrians? They should be happy for them, cause it might as well have been Arnie!!

[howabe]

1. Attila the Hun
2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. Bastian Schweinsteiger

[bossel]

1. Attila the Hun

A German???

[Duo]

I'd defenetily vote for Bismarck. He made Germany wat it is now, without him, some of Germanic states might have been absorbed by some other European Country.

[howabe]

A German???

Yep. Conquered the area from the Rhine to the Black Sea, which includes part of Germany... Thta makes him German enough for me lol

[Duo]

some say he's hungarian, some that he is mongol, i'll just stuk with him being some turkic guy.

[bossel]

Yep. Conquered the area from the Rhine to the Black Sea, which includes part of Germany... Thta makes him German enough for me lol

Oh well, if you see it this way...

That would make Napoleon a German, too. Wonder, what the French think of this.

[Lina Inverse]

There's also Varus who conquered part of Germany before he got his ass kicked

[Ewok85]

the point i was trying to make there was that they dub over ALL their movies..

They do that in japan to my annoyance

I've met many european people and its always amazing how good their language skills are expecially their english!!

[Duo]

In Belgium and in the Netherlands, as far as I know they don't dub over movies. They just put subs. Also on Tv, american tv shows and movies are not dubbed, only subs. In italy and france however, they dub everything. I have found that Italians are much better at dubbing than French.

[Lina Inverse]

In Belgium and in the Netherlands, as far as I know they don't dub over movies. They just put subs. Also on Tv, american tv shows and movies are not dubbed, only subs. In italy and france however, they dub everything. I have found that Italians are much better at dubbing than French.

Yes, Italian dubs are generally quite good dubs, I saw this myself (or rather, heard it )

It's not true that we Germans dub everything. With anime, only those that are aired on TV are dubbed (and even there are already some subs), but the Dvd releases are generally sub-only That's it what truly matters.

[Miss_apollo7]

some say he's hungarian, some that he is mongol, i'll just stuk with him being some turkic guy.

He is a sad person.....died during his honeymoon....not a great man at all...no matter whether he is a Hun, Hungarian, Mongol...

It is sad when he dies during his honeymoon....and weird. He was a great horseback rider, and raider.....but he couldn't handle alcohol and a wedding party at the same time....

[Maciamo]

In Belgium and in the Netherlands, as far as I know they don't dub over movies. They just put subs.

That's not true. In Wallonia are almost always dubbed in French. Brussels is a special case as it is bilingual and quite international, and many movies are subbed in French and Dutch instead.

[Maciamo]

It's not true that we Germans dub everything. With anime, only those that are aired on TV are dubbed (and even there are already some subs), but the Dvd releases are generally sub-only That's it what truly matters.

I suppose you meant that DVD versions have both subtitles (in various languages), original voices and dubbed version(s), which can all be selected and changed anytime during the movie.

[bossel]

I suppose you meant that DVD versions have both subtitles (in various languages), original voices and dubbed version(s), which can all be selected and changed anytime during the movie.

No. I think, he means the stuff that is not "good enough" to be broadcast, only released on DVD. Since dubbing is expensive, it wouldn't pay to dub stuff that doesn't reach the broad masses.

[Duo]

That's not true. In Wallonia are almost always dubbed in French. Brussels is a special case as it is bilingual and quite international, and many movies are subbed in French and Dutch instead.

Umm ja on tv the french speakin stations dubb the movies and shows, but even rtfb, the belgian state tv in french, sometimes when they have a premiere of a movie they will show it in english with subs and the french version of it on their other affiliate station. Also as far as cable tv goes, here we get stations from germany, italy, spain and what not, so is a lingual mix, the flemish and dutch channels almost never dubb anything, i've seen some asian movies on the Dutch, from netherlands dutch, channels in their original language with subs.

And as far as the cinema is concerned, they never dub anything, always work with subs, they will only dubd kid's movies like this new movie now Robots. I feel that this is a good policy, original is always better than dubbed.

[Duo]

He is a sad person.....died during his honeymoon....not a great man at all...no matter whether he is a Hun, Hungarian, Mongol...

It is sad when he dies during his honeymoon....and weird. He was a great horseback rider, and raider.....but he couldn't handle alcohol and a wedding party at the same time....

Ohhh, i had no idea, thx for all the info. Maybe his wife was like super duperish cute and he couldn't handle that

[Dutch Baka]

the biggest dutch man was : PIM FORTUIN, just because he said some things, and got a bullit in his head, he is the bigest dutch one... ( im sorry its really wrong...) Congratulations with your german one....Adenauer

our number 6 of GREATEST DUTCH PEOPLE WAS Anne Frank ( who was a german, from orign.... ) pretty strange if you ask me..

[Shas]

My favorite german is also not german. ARNOLD IS THE BOMB HARHAR de governator! yay!

we'll elect chuck norris just for revenge! :P



no seriously: at some time of history all the austrians or switzerlands or so were germans O.o i dont know

I'd elect Oscar Schindler because he showed that not all Germans were Nazis (what many people still don't get ) or maybe Martin Luther because by translating the Bible he made the lower class more independant from the Church


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i dont know who invented the Sauerkraut though hes a hot candidate too (if he aint form austria or so. we just annex them)

[Lina Inverse]

i dont know who invented the Sauerkraut though hes a hot candidate too (if he aint form austria or so. we just annex them)

Sauerkraut, bleh... now that's something I'm really not fond of
Even worse is pork's knuckle... even though I really like pork otherwise (actually, pork is the only meat I eat ), but pork's knuckle is totally yucky!
How the hell could some icky stuff like pork's knuckle with sauerkraut become the German national dish!?

[Maciamo]

And as far as the cinema is concerned, they never dub anything, always work with subs, they will only dubd kid's movies like this new movie now Robots. I feel that this is a good policy, original is always better than dubbed.

Duo, I have lived there long enough to know that most movies in the French speaking part are dubbed and only subbed for premiere or on a special day once a week (eg. Tuesday night). It's even rarer to find subbed movies on RTBF, RTL-TVI or any French channels (TF1...).