Lufthansa Crosswind Landing at Hamburg

Hi,

In article ,
wrote:
A very minor point, Andy. I hope you mean your breath is bated -- I
don't know what the consequences might be if it's intended to be bait
for Bertie.

Right you are Tina. I never knew that!

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

My personal pet hate is 'Here, here!'

To which my usual response is 'Where? Where?'



Andy

"Andy Hawkins" wrote in message ...
Hi,

In article ,
wrote:
A very minor point, Andy. I hope you mean your breath is bated -- I
don't know what the consequences might be if it's intended to be bait
for Bertie.

Right you are Tina. I never knew that!

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

My personal pet hate is 'Here, here!'

To which my usual response is 'Where? Where?'



Andy


Here we are, here.

I asked again in my best school german for another. THe
crewcutted bartender, as close a double for Gert Frobe ( goldfinger) as
you're going to find shouts back again, "NEIN". he's obviously getting a
bit perturbed, so i try a third time. He's getting purple now and still
refusing to give me "Ein anderes beir" . Well this went on for a few
more minutes and eventually I discover I'm asking for another
~different~ beer and they only have one brand on draft.

Ah, the difference between another beer and an other beer...you should have
asked for "Noch ein Bier" instead.

Some German pubs can be very interesting places. For example in some pubs in
Dusseldorf, you can expect the (joking) reply "Water's in the Rhine, we
serve beer here" when you ask for water instead of beer...and don't even
dream of asking for the wrong type of beer, i.e. Altbier in Cologne or
Kölsch in Düsseldorf. Oh and in Bavaria "a small beer" is usually half a
liter and not available in some beer gardens at all, just full liters.

Kai Rode wrote in
:

I asked again in my best school german for another. THe
crewcutted bartender, as close a double for Gert Frobe ( goldfinger)
as you're going to find shouts back again, "NEIN". he's obviously
getting a bit perturbed, so i try a third time. He's getting purple
now and still refusing to give me "Ein anderes beir" . Well this went
on for a few more minutes and eventually I discover I'm asking for
another ~different~ beer and they only have one brand on draft.

Ah, the difference between another beer and an other beer...you should
have asked for "Noch ein Bier" instead.

Yep. Learned that on the day.

Some German pubs can be very interesting places. For example in some
pubs in Dusseldorf, you can expect the (joking) reply "Water's in the
Rhine, we serve beer here" when you ask for water instead of
beer...and don't even dream of asking for the wrong type of beer, i.e.
Altbier in Cologne or Kölsch in Düsseldorf. Oh and in Bavaria "a small
beer" is usually half a liter and not available in some beer gardens
at all, just full liters.

Well, these days they're not so fussy as that guy in Cologne and in most
places they have fairly decent english, so if mein Deutsch lets me down we
can resort to that.



Bertie