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No no no no no.
You must at the end of the sentence the main verb putten!
And dont forget inversion! 'Uber kanst ve' After a preposition the verb and pronoun reverse order.
Oh, and that's 'kannen ve' Ve is a plural, so its kannen, Kanst wold go with ich, du, etc
tut tut, your Germish needs a bit of work. 
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Actually I am fluent in German, having lived there for several years.
It was a satirical side swipe at the English impression of what Germans are like.
Several years ago I was in a pub talking to a couple of Germans.
The subject got round to The War.
One of the Germans asked why we English always bring up the war, and, to a man the five or six other Englishmen at the bar, in unison, said "Because We Won!".
Even the Germans laughed at this.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: having lived there for several years.
Wo hast Du gelebt ? Hamburg ? Dort gearbeitet ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
modified 27-Feb-14 5:28am.
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Spoken like a true Alsatian! 
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I don't like their wines, but I do work in Germany.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Where abouts? I work there part of the time, in a very dull town. Very very dull.
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Aplerbeck in Dortmund
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Actually I am fluent in German
Oh really? Several years is enough is it?
Anyway, your Germish sucks. 
(And oddly it is always Germans who bring up Hitler)
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Erudite_Eric wrote: And dont forget inversion!
I thnk you meant:
"And don't forget invasion."
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Don't mention the war.
DD did once, but I think he got away with it...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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German tourist witnesses a road accident. He runs into a shop. Here is the conversation:
German: A man has been knocked down by a car. What number do I dial to get an ambulance?
Shopkeeper: No, no, no.
German: What do you mean, nein, nein, nein?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Reminds me of the (probably faked) video about the German coast guard I saw years ago. There are two men, an old one and a young one, problably an apprentice.
The old man says (in German) to to the young one something like: I need to go to the restroom. Stay alert.
As soon as the old man is out of the door there is a voice from the speaker: Mayday, mayday! We are sinking!
The young man hessitantly grabs the microphone and says veeery sloowly with an incredibly awful German accent: Hello. Sis is se German coast guard. What are you sinking about?
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"Yes you did. You invaded Poland!"
Had some brilliant lines, that show: "She can kill a man at 10 paces with one blow of her tongue"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Don't mention the war.
Edit: I think OG did once but I think he got away with it.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Septimus Hedgehog wrote: all of this could have been mine
Britain, North Germany, Holland and Flanders should have merged into a single state centuries ago. We have a common language, common religion, common culture and would have been a dominant global force and avoided two world wars.
Shame.
modified 27-Feb-14 5:27am.
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So you mean German language, German Religion and German culture?
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Not German. Celtic 
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Back to the roots eh? 
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We would only have taken wales and Scotland with us into the Greater Union of Germanic Peoples is to have someone to make jokes about....
modified 27-Feb-14 5:37am.
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Platte Deutsch though.
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no way... badisch, the only german dialect that is truely worth keeping it
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Erudite_Eric wrote: WTF is basdisch
FTFY
It's the dialect many mix up with Swabian, but as Baden-Württemberg is a mix of 2 different provinces, the Badisch part (i don't know if there is a english word for that) and the swabian part (Württemberg). And both dialects are completely different for those who speak it. But i see this is to deep into German neighbour rivalries.
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Ah, OK, I drive past there when O go home. I forget how young Germany is and really how many almost separate languages it has.
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