Re: [Cz-L] Hochdeutsch and Czernowitzer

Iris,
How are your "ichs" and "michs" and "zwanzigs " ?

  Hardy

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From: <IrisJune11_at_aol.com>
To: <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:38 AM
Subject: 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
>

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