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Anarchy In Detroit said:
It is a silly matter of pride to me in that I can mimic any accent (or voice, speech patterns, and body movements/poses individuals always take). I simply haven't heard enough Swedish people. I do know some of you will pronounce TH sounds as D's. Where we would say "that" some of you say, "dat." I noticed this on Germans too.
you´re right, germans often have problems with the "th" because we don´t have that in our language so most germans tend to pronounce it either as a D or a soft S. i never was in new york or the usa in general, but i watch a lot of films and tv series with the original english voice track and somehow of that new york often reminds of how germans sound talking english because they also have that pronounciation of "th" as a D and they also pronounce the vowels in some words like we pronounce them in germany. like the sentence "i´m gonna do it." which should come out like the o in "gonna" is more a mix of o and a and the a at the end is more like a "shwa" which is something like an unclear vowel, something between e, o and a in this case. new yorkers(as i´ver only heard through films and a few conversations) seem to pronounce it more like "i´m go-nah duh it" which is kind of similar to the way a german would pronounce it.

sorry for the big post that had nothing to with the topic, it just came to mind and was a nice flashback into those times where i would casually go to the uni.
 

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Netherlands;
We don't smoke weed all the time and not every Dutchman can sell you some
but do you really dislike us germans that much? i love the netherlands by the way(not only because you can smoke weed there).
 

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iamthehorde said:
germany:

germans do not tend to be racist. in fact, germany is quite the opposide, as it´s the country with the third highest percentage or so of immigrants in the world on par with the usa. a quarter to a third of all german people under 25 have at least one parent born abroad, which makes germany probably one of the most mixed up countries in the world. and there´s also a high number of people you would call illegal immigrants.

germany is, unfortunately, not the most ecological friendly country in the world, although our politicians try to tell us. in fact, our stats are good because we trade emission with other countries. the new government also wants to keep the nuclear power plants running while the government that ran our country until 2005 decided to shut all of them down until 2020 or so.

germany is not bavaria. in fact, germany is a state made up of 16 sub-states, called Bundesländer and they are all quite different and some even tend to dislike each other. bavaria is one of them. also, our army does neither look like the prussians with the spike on their
helmets, nor does it look like the wehrmacht anymore.

germans are also not all blonde with blue eyes. that´s sweden.

germans are not strict, they are quite liberal. most germans even tend to ignore minor laws as long as no one is really hurt. our laws are for the most part more liberal than in the rest of europe, although that might be about to change...

germans are not unfriendly. it´s just uncommon here to act like you know each other for over a decade when you just met five minutes ago.

most german accents in american movies are horribly inaccurate. it does often sound stupid but it doesn´t sound like that at all. in the end, english is something like the bastard daughter of saxon german, frisic/dutch, some scandinavian and a few french terms(trust me on that, i studied that shit) so please be kind to your language parents.

however, i still think it sucks here for entirely other reasons. sorry, germany, it´s nothing personal.
Wow... you nailed it, man. Especially the language aspect (I'm studying linguistics right now, so yes, I can confirm that bit).
To everyone: We don't actually all eat bratwurst and sauerkraut each and every day of our lives.
Oh, and about the army bit, that's actually funny: When I was with the Bundeswehr, due to some weird planning errors after a field exercise our unit took up residence in an American military base for two days. The G.I.s were really friendly, but for some reason almost all of them wanted to trade weapons with us; upon inquiry why they wanted our guns, the frank reply was, "Man, don't you know that compared to your G36 our guns are absolute crap...?" After that they also tried to swap uniforms with us. :p
 

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Molten Water said:
I'm from India.
India:

2. We do NOT spontaneously start line dancing in the middle of the day.
That would be awsome though!
Imagine walking down the street and suddenly a bunch of guys and gals shout out: "LET'S DO IT!" and go nuts! I'd love it!
 

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Xshu said:
most of us like british comedy over american comedies
Speak for whatever part of Canada you're from. I've never met a Canadian who actually enjoyed anything produced by Canadian (besides hockey), British (besides Monty Python), or French (besides in Quebec) media. It's actually a law in Canada that we're not allowed to put all American shows on any channel, because stations have to air a certain amount of Canadian media. They have to, because if they didn't nobody would air it because American shows are just more popular.
it´s similar in germany. they also wanted to have a certain amount of german stuff in the telly or the radio but failed. still, most films, books, music out of germany, at least the stuff that also gets popular abroad, like that hitler-movie or tokio hotel is embarassing to most germans. and i must also say that our whole media sucks ass, really. i recommend you never ever watch german comedy or tv in general when you are here. it´s so bad sometimes i want to cry. that´s why i´m on this board.
 

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Skeleon said:
iamthehorde said:
but do you really dislike us germans that much?
I think that's only whenever we participate in the same football events, heh.
Maybe it's because of all the jokes we crack about Dutch people and their mobile homes... ^^°

iamthehorde said:
and i must also say that our whole media sucks ass, really. i recommend you never ever watch german comedy or tv in general when you are here. it´s so bad sometimes i want to cry. that´s why i´m on this board.
True. Aside from the occasional news cast when I'm at a friend's house I haven't watched German TV in about 8 years... I don't even have a receiver. I always fear my brain might liquify upon being exposed to all the crap on TV, so I steer clear of it.
 

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Hungary- Er..Actually, anything negative you hear about that place is probably true. Some nice architecture and Bela Lugosi are pretty much the only redeeming features. Maybe the 1956 Revolution.
 

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Wow... you nailed it, man. Especially the language aspect (I'm studying linguistics right now, so yes, I can confirm that bit).
To everyone: We don't actually all eat bratwurst and sauerkraut each and every day of our lives.
Oh, and about the army bit, that's actually funny: When I was with the Bundeswehr, due to some weird planning errors after a field exercise our unit took up residence in an American military base for two days. The G.I.s were really friendly, but for some reason almost all of them wanted to trade weapons with us; upon inquiry why they wanted our guns, the frank reply was, "Man, don't you know that compared to your G36 our guns are absolute crap...?" After that they also tried to swap uniforms with us. :p
yeah, the whole world digs german weapons! we could add that, too. germany is not pacifist at all, because we sell tanks, jetfighters and guns to everyone.

your story sounds really funny :). i live in wiesbaden and you may know there are a lot of airbases out here so i got to know some people from the army and the thing with the german guns being badass and all that seems to be pretty big with them.
 

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England.

That part of the British Isles that was occupied by the Roman's, Saxon's, Viking's and the Norman's. Consiquently, English is quite a diverse and interesting language. We have a historic rivarly with the old celtic countries of Ireland, Wales and Scotland, we love taking the piss out of eachother. England also has a long standing rivarly with France, we must have spent a good 400 years of our history fighting them. Consiquently the English make damn good fighters, so our military history is rather glorious, being full of famous victory's like Agincourt, Waterloo and Al-Amain. This is probably why we have the world's most feared and respected special forces. During war, the English are as hard as nails. The English working class youth tend to be rather violent, and speak thickly in regional accents. Since most Enlish people consume far to much alachol this is a bad combination.England has numerous accent's- London accent's, Scouse, Manchurian, Yorkshire, West Country, Northubrian etc, we do not all sound like how Hollywood portrays us. And another thing, why do the bad guy's in American movies tend to have "British" accents??

We do not all live in quaint villages, most of us live in medium size towns or in the suburbs of cities, very few British people today are "posh", the gentleman culture here died out many decades ago. We are generally indifferent to the Queen, many of us think she's useless, roughly the same amount agree but say shes worth keeping due to the tourist trade. Princess Diana is a goddess that is worshiped by Daily Mail readers. We love the BBC, and show's like Top Gear, QI and Mock the Week, we also love I-player. We love TV in general. We also love it when our actors dominate American cinema, where not quite sure why British actors are so good. (Oh btw, the term British refairs to the English and any other UK country, however the Scot's, Welsh and N. Irish will never call themselves British). Where both proud and concerned about our NHS, as well as our education systems. Our church owned primary school's tend to produce apathetic agnostic's making, ironically, England one of the worlds most secular nations. A second by-product of English education is political correctness, and a paranoid fear of racism. This is why the English are so terrified of Nick Griffen and the BNP. We hate facism, dispite our military history. Nick Griffen to us is an English version of Adolf Hitler. Most English tend to regard WW2 as "our" war against Jerry, which is why we get so touchy about the American's claiming they won it for us, and so paranoid about the British Nazi Party. After all, we decleared the war, had a few more glorious battles, proudely stood alone and faced down the Nazi onslaught. Dad's Army pretty much exhibits the British view to WW2. Another reason why we regard WW2 as "our" war is that we fought the Germans in the last war, in doing so we gave eachother nicknames. We called the German's "Jerry" and the Germans called us "Tommy". We see the Germans as our own personal rival's, no one else should be able to defeat them except us!

Btw, It's true that our weather suck's, and consiquently every summer millions of Britons migrate to Spain for the summer months. What most people, including the English themselves tend to forget, is that we made the modern world. English is the international language of Earth, we where the first country to industrialise, our Empire shaped the world as it is today, we invented most thing's- (computor, world wide web, jet engine, steam engine, light bulb's, aircraft structure) In terms of science we are also damn good (Newton, Dawin and i think it was a Brit working with an American who discoverd DNA) Our writers are world famous (Shakespeare, Dickin's, Pratchett, Tolkein, JK Rowling) to name but a few. We also regard America as one of England's rather big, loud and obnoxious children who ran away from home. Dispite this, we tend to get on quite well with American's.
 

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Sonicron said:
Skeleon said:
iamthehorde said:
but do you really dislike us germans that much?
I think that's only whenever we participate in the same football events, heh.
Maybe it's because of all the jokes we crack about Dutch people and their mobile homes... ^^°

iamthehorde said:
and i must also say that our whole media sucks ass, really. i recommend you never ever watch german comedy or tv in general when you are here. it´s so bad sometimes i want to cry. that´s why i´m on this board.
True. Aside from the occasional news cast when I'm at a friend's house I haven't watched German TV in about 8 years... I don't even have a receiver. I always fear my brain might liquify upon being exposed to all the crap on TV, so I steer clear of it.
and it even gets worse with stuff like "reality affairs" where everything is acted but made up as if it was real people and real stuff happening to them. german tv really destroys brains. i only watch cartoons and also sometimes the news broadcast.

you´re also right that we are not always that kind to the dutch(who play beautifully soccer but still suck at it because... it has to be that way! ;) ). netherlands, feel virtually hugged by me.

*hug*
 

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Icedshot said:
and we dont have ridiculous accents that every single british video game character ever has (except for the woman in uncharted 2, she has a normal accent i think)
Sheva in some parts of RE5 has an english accent
 

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iamthehorde said:
Sonicron said:
Wow... you nailed it, man. Especially the language aspect (I'm studying linguistics right now, so yes, I can confirm that bit).
To everyone: We don't actually all eat bratwurst and sauerkraut each and every day of our lives.
Oh, and about the army bit, that's actually funny: When I was with the Bundeswehr, due to some weird planning errors after a field exercise our unit took up residence in an American military base for two days. The G.I.s were really friendly, but for some reason almost all of them wanted to trade weapons with us; upon inquiry why they wanted our guns, the frank reply was, "Man, don't you know that compared to your G36 our guns are absolute crap...?" After that they also tried to swap uniforms with us. :p
yeah, the whole world digs german weapons! we could add that, too. germany is not pacifist at all, because we sell tanks, jetfighters and guns to everyone.

your story sounds really funny :). i live in wiesbaden and you may know there are a lot of airbases out here so i got to know some people from the army and the thing with the german guns being badass and all that seems to be pretty big with them.
Well, yeah, but you have to admit... our tanks kind of rule. God, I love the Leopard design. :D
Yeah, I've noticed all the airbases around Wiesbaden. I live in Kiel, but only because of my University studies - I'm originally from Hessen. My dad lives about 5 minutes from Bad Schwalbach, so I get to drive through Wiesbaden pretty much every time I visit him over the holidays.
That reminds me... I haven't had Äppler in a long time, I'm looking forward to that when I get home over christmas. :)
 

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iamthehorde said:
Sonicron said:
Skeleon said:
iamthehorde said:
but do you really dislike us germans that much?
I think that's only whenever we participate in the same football events, heh.
Maybe it's because of all the jokes we crack about Dutch people and their mobile homes... ^^°

iamthehorde said:
and i must also say that our whole media sucks ass, really. i recommend you never ever watch german comedy or tv in general when you are here. it´s so bad sometimes i want to cry. that´s why i´m on this board.
True. Aside from the occasional news cast when I'm at a friend's house I haven't watched German TV in about 8 years... I don't even have a receiver. I always fear my brain might liquify upon being exposed to all the crap on TV, so I steer clear of it.
and it even gets worse with stuff like "reality affairs" where everything is acted but made up as if it was real people and real stuff happening to them. german tv really destroys brains. i only watch cartoons and also sometimes the news broadcast.
I know what you mean - the sort of TV program that's specifically designed for unemployed people with less than 200 working brain cells. It's like if DeMol Entertainment and the inventor of court shows had a thousand bastard babies. -.-
 

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OmG, 5 pages and not a single word from my country! o_O
I shall bring justice to my compatriots!!!

*Ahem*, here in Brazil:

1- We do NOT SPEAK SPANISH! We speak portuguese!
2- We do NOT live in jungles. We have concrete buildings, televisions, internet, cars, cellphones and many other stuffs.
3- No, there aren't monkeys, parrots or any kind of wild animal invading our homes and jumping on our heads. Although you do see capuchins walking on the eletric wires, they're rare.
4- Yes, we have the tiniest bikinis in the world and we like beach a lot.
5- Nearly the entire country likes football. (aka soccer)
 

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Sonicron said:
iamthehorde said:
Sonicron said:
Wow... you nailed it, man. Especially the language aspect (I'm studying linguistics right now, so yes, I can confirm that bit).
To everyone: We don't actually all eat bratwurst and sauerkraut each and every day of our lives.
Oh, and about the army bit, that's actually funny: When I was with the Bundeswehr, due to some weird planning errors after a field exercise our unit took up residence in an American military base for two days. The G.I.s were really friendly, but for some reason almost all of them wanted to trade weapons with us; upon inquiry why they wanted our guns, the frank reply was, "Man, don't you know that compared to your G36 our guns are absolute crap...?" After that they also tried to swap uniforms with us. :p
yeah, the whole world digs german weapons! we could add that, too. germany is not pacifist at all, because we sell tanks, jetfighters and guns to everyone.

your story sounds really funny :). i live in wiesbaden and you may know there are a lot of airbases out here so i got to know some people from the army and the thing with the german guns being badass and all that seems to be pretty big with them.
Well, yeah, but you have to admit... our tanks kind of rule. God, I love the Leopard design. :D
Yeah, I've noticed all the airbases around Wiesbaden. I live in Kiel, but only because of my University studies - I'm originally from Hessen. My dad lives about 5 minutes from Bad Schwalbach, so I get to drive through Wiesbaden pretty much every time I visit him over the holidays.
That reminds me... I haven't had Äppler in a long time, I'm looking forward to that when I get home over christmas. :)
no way! do you know nastätten? it´s just 10 minutes from bad schwalbach. this is where i´m originally from. but i´m also leaving to the north, i´m moving to hamburg the next year. man, i love äppler, too. you surely know bambus(äppler and cola), the regional mix up drink? i´m sort of addicted to it...

the internet is a small place, really :)