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Not seen it, but Google maps indicates that is the case. We're just up the way on Ved Amagerport.
Not seen it, but Google maps indicates that is the case. We're just up the way on Ved Amagerport.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.
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.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).
It's like how English and Hindi are related. Both are Indoeuropean, but distant relatives.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.
tea and cake in the afternoon.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!
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?where has the thread topic gone?
from what i remember they just indicated the 15 districtsOops. 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).
Not in the same manner.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?
Itzehoe has meanwhile taken the place of Bielefeld as a town that doesn't really exist.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).
I thought that was the city of Munchausen?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.
That would have been Bodenwerder, car plate initial HOL (for Holzminden).I thought that was the city of Munchausen?
that is the name of our national holiday
now some doubt whether Germany is really united
what do you think?
cars in Stuttgart sometimes have S - AU as number plate. …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).
i have traveled in the GDR when it still existed
a strangevfeeling ….
yes …. i was surprised that at least the post boxes were yellowDid you get the time machine vibe?
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'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).
Holzminden is the city , more a small town, where I studied civil engeneering in the 90´sThat would have been Bodenwerder, car plate initial HOL (for Holzminden).
That is my old hood!Not seen it, but Google maps indicates that is the case. We're just up the way on Ved Amagerport.
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