
'Electric Racing Chocolate covered Biscuits with Caramel'
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 16:46,
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for example?
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 16:49,
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surely
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 16:53,
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eleccyraccilatocovebiisecswovcuramale?
Damn germans with their huge words
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 16:49,
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Damn germans with their huge words

and their disregard for punctuation and grammar.
Theoretically, there is no upper limit for german word length. In practice, germans need to breathe.
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 16:52,
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Theoretically, there is no upper limit for german word length. In practice, germans need to breathe.

apparently.
[edit: Google translates "fluffy" to "flaumig" but can't translate it back into English. :/ ]
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 17:08,
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[edit: Google translates "fluffy" to "flaumig" but can't translate it back into English. :/ ]

Last time I was in Germany, total strangers kept asking me for directions. In German. And not all of these strangers were German. I don't speak a word of German, but can only assume I have the look of a native. It was bewildering.
Either that, or I'm stupid for being surprised by people talking German in Germany. Yes, that sounds more likely...
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 17:05,
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Either that, or I'm stupid for being surprised by people talking German in Germany. Yes, that sounds more likely...

I was asked the way to the youth hostel.
Which was astonishingly convenient as "where is the youth hostel" is the only non-beer-related phrase I know in German and I was coincidentally on the way to the youth hostel.
ever start a sentence and wish you hadn't bothered?
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Wed 11 Feb 2004, 17:12,
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Which was astonishingly convenient as "where is the youth hostel" is the only non-beer-related phrase I know in German and I was coincidentally on the way to the youth hostel.
ever start a sentence and wish you hadn't bothered?