Nothing like the words "enema sex" to keep people from commenting on a post!

On a somewhat related note: In case you're wondering, I've seen a vast recent increase in advice mail from people who get turned on by wearing diapers.

I thought it was a typo.

An hour later I saw it in Twitter. Out of context, it's all like, huh?

I try to only have sex with friends. If they later turn into enemas, I push them out of my life.

But back to the Germanic. I like the way Germans can just keep adding words or modifiers until there is absolutely no confusion about the meaning.

Perhaps you'd like to try the deli-style breakfast cheese with mountain herbs from the state of Oberammergau and don't know how to ask for it?

Try 'oberammergaueralpenkr-uterdelikatessenfr-hst-cksk-se'. So much easier.

No, I don't speak German. Yes, I stole that from the interwebs. U can 2.

farfegnugen!

Lederhosen (as a noun in German, it's always capitalized) is pronounced lay-dare-HOSE-en is German for leather pants. May also describe leather shorts.

I speak German (a little; I'm in a conversational Meetup group and trying to improve it). It's fun to find out from the native speakers what the words for some things are. But yeah, Germans love their compound words.

There are a fair amount of cognates in German. Lederhosen is a perfect example. Leder and leather are very similar and hosen is similar to hose/hosiery.

Kindergarten is another: Children's Garden.

I wish I would have taken French or Spanish in high school, especially French, but took German because that's the language most of my friends chose. Our teacher was from Germany and was your stereotypical stern German. But, man, was he ever an excellent teacher. Back then there was a statewide AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) test every year and typically over half of the top ten on that test were from my high school. He really drilled us on dialogue and, even now, decades later, I can still have rudimentary conversations in German.

I speak German (a little

Ausgezeichnet! (one of my favorite German words)

Lived for three years in Germany. I know some, and can pick up about every third word on a German news broadcast.

The language is considered best for military operations because there are few words that have contextual meanings. It is hard to be misunderstood in German.
We English should have stuck with it rather than letting it get all bastardized by Norman French in 1066.

Wish I was there now, instead of Japan.

What I always found amusing about German was the use literalness of the language. They didn't have exotic names for things. They just called them what they were (or looked like).

A tortoise is a Schildkrote. Literally, a "shield-toad." Which is basically what it looks like: a toad with a shield.

A light-bulb in German is a Gluhbirne, or "glowing pear."

The best one of all: a "vacuum cleaner" is a "Staubsauger", which is to say "dust sucker".

That word always reminds me of the Munsters episode where the mother needs to dust before her guests came over. So she turns her vacuum cleaner on backwards and sprays dust evenly around her house.

Another good one is "Schwanz." It means "tail." However, it is also slang for a penis. I will never forget the look on the face of one of my friends from the Army, as we sat in a German refresher course. She was innocently talking about a dog's tail, and my friend's eyes got as big as dinner plates. I knew exactly what he was thinking. It seems he had heard that "Schwanz" means "penis," but had never heard it also meant "tail."

Auf ihr wohl. Zum wohl.

Wo
Warum
Was
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Wir fahren auf der autobahn. Ha ha ha.

I speak German, and I've always found it odd that so many people say it sounds "ugly" or "funny." I think it sounds cool. Pointed, direct, playful.

...and if in doubt that German can sound sexy, listen to Heidi Klum speak it sometime. YOWZA. Die sprache der Liebe! Ich finde Deutsch viel schoener als Franzoesisch -- aber ich glaube, Amy wuerde nicht damit zustimmen!

Here is my favorite German word.

Klugscheißer!

Literally, Clever-Shitter.

It means smartass.

I speak German, and I've always found it odd that so many people say it sounds "ugly" or "funny."

Good example of how we all see things differently. It's the one foreign language I learned, and I'm glad I know as much as I do, but I certainly don't find it pleasant-sounding.

...and if in doubt that German can sound sexy, listen to Heidi Klum speak it sometime.

I do like the sound of German women speaking English. Many years ago I dated a German woman here in Seattle. I thought she sounded very sexy with her accented English.

...aber ich glaube, Amy wuerde nicht damit zustimmen!

Amy...und auch JD.

It's the one foreign language I learned, and I'm glad I know as much as I do, but I certainly don't find it pleasant-sounding.

haha well, I find Japanese sexy-sounding, too, and people think I'm weird for that as well.

Ah well, jedem das Seine!

Amy, agree about Italian and I the sound of it, but I love the sound of French even more.