Re: [Cz-L] Hochdeutsch and Czernowitzer

Dear Cz List Members:

During the late 1940s, when I worked as a French translator for a New York
City import-export company,the German-English translator was a
German-Jewish refugee from Berlin. She always seemed very reserved, so in an attempt
to break the ice I told her that even though I neither spoke nor understood
German I learned a few German songs from my Czernowitz-born father. To
impress her, I started singing"Zwei herzen im driverteltakt". I never got
past that first line because she stopped me, sneering, "You sing German with
an Austrian accent."
    Incidentally, Hardy, I can't possibly be a stranger in paradise
because that is where I live.
 
                Iris
 
Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar
Raleigh, North Carolina
 
 
 
 

In a message dated 1/16/2014 1:49:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET writes:
Reading the related posts I can say only this :
Never have so many written so much about something they [k]now so little.
And for our non- German speakers : they should join in with this song:

" Take my hand
I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise "

(the music from Polovtian Dances -Prince Igor -Borodin, )

Hardy

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Received on 2014-01-16 16:34:07