Monday, April 19, 2010
Today at school in History class, the teacher was lecturing us on a war that happened in the 1700s. A man named Otto von Bismarck wrote a two page letter to the French king. It had very long words in it and was incredibly confusing, using triple negatives (I don't not not want to...) and the teacher read very fast. The teacher said "Confused? You should be. It's diplomat language for 'Piss yourself and shut up' (German, 'Verpiss dich und halts maul)". Best lecture I've ever had.
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Tony, I don't think you translated verpiss dich properly, it means GET OUT OF HERE or GO AWAY, not piss yourself... although I can see how it sounds like that. Sounds like you are leaning lots of interesting stuff at your German school! Thanks for sharing.
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