Re: [Cz-L] Judenmarkt

Anny your Warschau is not entirely Stubenrein, but it went together
with some more naive towns:
The lightest was A gram and the roundest A rad. Still I liked Warschau most.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Really, I re-live Cz. in all its glory, just reading one sentence we so
> often used!!!!
> Funny, lovely, can't be translated, pure and simple Czernowitz. Come to
> think of it, as Warschau was called a sad city starting with W(eh) (pain)
> and ending in "au" and in the middle you didn't lick honey either (arsch=
> behind), so Czerno-witz ending in Witz which is humour! (nothing seems funny
> when translated)
> anny
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Berti Glaubach <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> There was at a certain time (probably martial law immmediately after
>> the Rumanians took over in 1919) a law that limited the number of
>> people standing together to 2.
>> The story my father told was, that when the policeman on Ringplatz
>> addressed their group of 3 with the words:
>> Gehn Sie ausseinander! - the response was: Gehn Sie selber ausseinander!
>> The first ausseinander was for go-separate, the second for go yourself
>> asunder, devide into parts.
>> Berti.
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