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PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:01 pm    Post subject: Bavaria, where mountains stick out of the ground! Reply with quote
Seriously, how well does John Cleese (the waiter) speak German in this hilarious Monty Python sketch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAaaAVJr9zg
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't yet know German well enough to give a good analysis, but one obvious mistake is that the German characters keep referring to "Bavaria". The German name for that state is "Bayern".
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lazar wrote:
I don't yet know German well enough to give a good analysis, but one obvious mistake is that the German characters keep referring to "Bavaria". The German name for that state is "Bayern".

Yes it is. However, these things might happen to native speakers as well. Most Hungarians who speak German refer to Bansag often as Banat - it gets on my nerves. The Hungarian name of it is Bansag, not Banat.

Unfortunately, I can't listen to it as I don't have an audio device installed.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
John Cleese sounded like a mixture of a French and an English speaking German and trying to do a bavarian dialect at times. Well if I hadn't known that this was supposed to be a Bavarian I would not have discovered anything about that attempt at all.
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