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day of German unity

PeteEU said:
Where do you think I have lived most of my life in Denmark.....


Wait a minute...that sounds familiar.. Is there pizza joint called Latinis there?


Oh that has been viral on Youtoobs for years.
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Not seen it, but Google maps indicates that is the case. We're just up the way on Ved Amagerport.
 
joluoto said:
It's mainly difficult because it's not related to most European languages. It's main relatives are Estonian, Sapmi (spoken in northernmost Scandinavia and Finland), Ingrian, Vepsian, Karelian (all three minority languages in Russia) and several more small languages. Hungarian is a distant relative. So yes, for someone trained to think how an Indoeuropean language work Finnish is challenging (I'd know).
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Yeah after learning about Finno-Ugric I still look at the words on packaging that has both Finnish and Hungarian and am always, hmm, not seeing much in common.
 
Juin said:
No beer? I say beer by the gallons. Make the Teutons proud. The shades of the departed Tuetons wanna look down and see their descendants lifting beer mugs by the thousands. Tea and cake :)!
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tea and cake in the afternoon.

we dont drink beer all time

btw … in my region wine is liked ….

🥂🍷
 
Rumpel said:
where has the thread topic gone?
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Oops. Well ... sort of pertaining to the topic, prior to Germany reuniting, did both East and West Germany follow the car registration system of the initial letters denoting the town/region it's registered in?

I'm afraid we English-speakers chuckled on learning that 'IZ' was the code for a town called Itzehoe (things you do when bored in a traffic jam).
 
Sven Karma said:
Oops. Well ... sort of pertaining to the topic, prior to Germany reuniting, did both East and West Germany follow the car registration system of the initial letters denoting the town/region it's registered in?

I'm afraid we English-speakers chuckled on learning that 'IZ' was the code for a town called Itzehoe (things you do when bored in a traffic jam).
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from what i remember they just indicated the 15 districts

when i lived in ybaden.baden …. my code was. …. BAD …
 
Sven Karma said:
Oops. Well ... sort of pertaining to the topic, prior to Germany reuniting, did both East and West Germany follow the car registration system of the initial letters denoting the town/region it's registered in?
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Not in the same manner.

In the GDR, towns, districts and communities were assigned letters (first) followed by numbers but the letters (especially) gave no clue to the location of origin in the manner that FRG number plates did.

As such a GDR plate number "LJ 33 -45" would have the "L" designating the district of Erfurt, while the number would specify town or village more, none of this available to the general public of GDR but, of course, known to the locals.

The ministry of the Interior could, of course, look anything up in its lists.

Sven Karma said:
I'm afraid we English-speakers chuckled on learning that 'IZ' was the code for a town called Itzehoe (things you do when bored in a traffic jam).
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Itzehoe has meanwhile taken the place of Bielefeld as a town that doesn't really exist.;)
 
Chagos said:
Not in the same manner.

In the GDR, towns, districts and communities were assigned letters (first) followed by numbers but the letters (especially) gave no clue to the location of origin in the manner that FRG number plates did.

As such a GDR plate number "LJ 33 -45" would have the "L" designating the district of Erfurt, while the number would specify town or village more, none of this available to the general public of GDR but, of course, known to the locals.

The ministry of the Interior could, of course, look anything up in its lists.


Itzehoe has meanwhile taken the place of Bielefeld as a town that doesn't really exist.;)
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I thought that was the city of Munchausen?
 
Rumpel said:
that is the name of our national holiday

now some doubt whether Germany is really united

what do you think?
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I was in Hohenfels that day. :)

I remember the East Germans coming across for the first time and the look on their faces.... it was like they had stepped 50 years into the future. You'd probably have the same look if you stepped out your door and discovered it was actually 2074 instead of 2024. Everything about them was from the past. The cars they drove, the clothes they wore, even the way they acted. It was literally like they had stepped out of a time machine.

I haven't been back to Germany since... but I would imagine they have adapted to the present-day somewhat. Maybe they have only adapted 34 of those 50 years and still have another 16 to go?
 
i have traveled in the GDR when it still existed

a strangevfeeling ….
 
Sven Karma said:
Oops. Well ... sort of pertaining to the topic, prior to Germany reuniting, did both East and West Germany follow the car registration system of the initial letters denoting the town/region it's registered in?

I'm afraid we English-speakers chuckled on learning that 'IZ' was the code for a town called Itzehoe (things you do when bored in a traffic jam).
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cars in Stuttgart sometimes have S - AU as number plate. …
 
going through the border checks was eerie …
 
a mirror was pushed under my car to see i smuggled sth or even some body
 
now ….

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Unity and Right and Freedom
 
i had hidden a list of addresses of contacts somewhere …
and the list was nearly found … at midnight …. under glaring search lights ..
 
Cordelier said:
I was in Hohenfels that day. :)

I remember the East Germans coming across for the first time and the look on their faces.... it was like they had stepped 50 years into the future. You'd probably have the same look if you stepped out your door and discovered it was actually 2074 instead of 2024. Everything about them was from the past. The cars they drove, the clothes they wore, even the way they acted. It was literally like they had stepped out of a time machine.

I haven't been back to Germany since... but I would imagine they have adapted to the present-day somewhat. Maybe they have only adapted 34 of those 50 years and still have another 16 to go?
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I saw what you are talking about on tv. But even on tv one got the sense you talking about as the East German cars rolled into W Germany
 
on this same day Baerbock was molested by a Russian reportrr in New york at the UNO
 
Sven Karma said:
I'm afraid we English-speakers chuckled on learning that 'IZ' was the code for a town called Itzehoe (things you do when bored in a traffic jam).
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that was a bored kids game on family trips. We learned geography that way. And it´s a fine tool to make fun of neighboring counties/cities. I am from "Hochsauerlandkreis", HSK. Nicest one is "Hilfe sie kommen" (Help, they´re coming) ;) - not very welcomed plate in the Ruhr area, cause there is a prejudice of hilbilly driving :D ;)
 
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