Justin's amazingly awesome German word of the day

[aquaphase]

Recently (i.e. on our trip to the House of Mouse) I was reinvigorated with my affection for Deutsch. Some of you might know that I studied it for years (here and abroad) and even managed to get pretty damn fluent. Since I don't live in the Hill Country of TX, I don't get to use it that often. Drinking liters of beer and chatting TX liberal politics (auf Englisch und Deutsch) with a family from Arlington at Epcot, however, reawoken something in me that clicks my brain over to Deutsch-mode all the time now (much to the chagrin of squeezle).

While I was digging around the web today, I stumbled across one of the most kickass examples of vocabulary that the English language just doesn't do: entwicklungsmöglichkeiten.

Take a guess as to what it might mean (and it's not "the final solution" or "master race" or anything else that Dalya might answer)

That's just one mouthful of word.

[roach]

would you like to gobble my chicken?

[monet2u]

well I'm pretty sure it's not about gobbling ones chicken...but other than that...I haven't got a clue.

[eebs]

not sure about the first bit (sounds like an air freshener) but it's something to do with possibilities.

[Tracy]

Recently (i.e. on our trip to the House of Mouse) I was reinvigorated with my affection for Deutsch. Some of you might know that I studied it for years (here and abroad) and even managed to get pretty damn fluent. Since I don't live in the Hill Country of TX, I don't get to use it that often. Drinking liters of beer and chatting TX liberal politics (auf Englisch und Deutsch) with a family from Arlington at Epcot, however, reawoken something in me that clicks my brain over to Deutsch-mode all the time now (much to the chagrin of squeezle).

You just missed the Pioneer Ball.

http://german.meetup.com/53/messages/bo ... ad/3492908

(Diane and Ray are my high school classmates.)

[aquaphase]

Oh, I was aware of the Pioneer Ball. squeezle & I eat at Kuby's just about every weekend. They had lots of posters up for it.

[katie]

entwicklungsmöglichkeiten

my guess has something to do with pollution's effects on the body.

[mere1975]

Yeah, smoker's lung?

- Mere "FORKERS DINNER AT KUBY'S IS IN ORDER" 1975

P.S.
Or Jorg's.

[mr_j]

that is an amazing word--and it doesn't have an English equivalent, but it means roughly "possiblities/opportunities for development."


entwitlungs = development
möglichkeit= possibilities, but leans more towards 'opportunities'

richtig oder falsh?

Herr "Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Ja!" Josef

[Irock]

I know it's trendy, but I'm a big fan of schadenfeude. The sentiment and the word itself. I took German in HS but I never learned much. Though I can recite a song, to the tune of "she'll be comin round the mountain." Does every German student learn this one?

Ich bin auslander und sprechen nicht gut Deutch
Ich bin auslander und sprechen nicht gut Deutch

Bitte something something something
Bitte something something something

Ich bin auslander und sprechen nicht gut Deutch

*curtsie*

i "guessing my spelling (esp of sprechen - schprechen?) leaves somthign to be desired" rock

[aquaphase]

mr_j nailed it.