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Titel: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am September 21, 2017, 19:51:30
German language’s gonna die,
time is high to say goodbye.
In my hometown there’s no way
without English yet today.

German language’s almost dead,
so I better look ahead,
change my name to Mary Rose
like John Heartfield and George Grosz.

Well, the best thing you can do
is to learn some English, too.
Then we can communicate
easily in every state.
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Erich Kykal am September 21, 2017, 20:47:26
Hi Jen!

 ;D

I can tell you, it's a gas
reading this for fun - alas,
I prefer (it's more exciting)
good old German for my writing!

LG, eKy
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Aspasia am September 22, 2017, 14:08:32
Truly spoken!

But languages and dialects have been changing since mankind has learned to articulate words and phrases und to develop grammar rules. The question is if in all cases it makes sense. If a body bag, which serves to protect a dead body during transportation, in "German" is changing to a bag tight to the waist in order to carry small personal things, there is something going wrong. Not to speak of "public viewing" or "standing ovations".

Nevertheless, a fine poem.

Best regards,
Ilka
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: cyparis am September 24, 2017, 13:44:19
Ich konnt alles lesen und verstehen,
aber die Deutsche Sprache wird mir im Blut sein und bleiben! :)

Man merkt, daß die Seeräuber-Jenny in allen Häfen zuhause ist!

À bientôt, ma Chère!

Toujours la tienne

Cyparis
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am Oktober 08, 2017, 00:06:29
Hi Erich,

Well, you hardly could survive
in Berlin’s everyday life.
Waiter, neighbour, cook and whore
don’t speak German any more.
They should learn some German, too,
and read poems by me and you! ;)

Gruß Jenny
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am Oktober 08, 2017, 01:01:05
Hi Ilka,

you’re right. Languages have always changed. We can hardly understand texts in Old High German, and even words used in the popular songs of the Roaring Twenties seem kind of strange to us.
All languages are influenced by others, by people who come together and try to find a way to communicate.
Sometimes old languages become popular again, as it is in Catalonia, where many people speak Catalan instead of Castilian Spanish.
Concerning the German language we shouldn’t worry. People in China, for instant, are very interested in learning German, our difficult, but very fine language.
And when I read the texts of the many young poets, I know that the German speaking people love their language anyway.

Greetings from Berlin,
Jenny
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am Oktober 08, 2017, 01:17:26
Merci beaucoup, ma chère Cyparis!

Ta pedia tou Pirea…

Ja, mir ist auch die deutsche Sprache am liebsten, schon weil mir meine schöne Muttersprache sehr vertraut ist. Die Sprache ist meine Heimat. Ich nehme sie überall hin mit.  :)

Liebe Grüße
Jenny
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Curd Belesos am Oktober 08, 2017, 17:17:37
Liebe Jenny,

ich habe den blauen Langenscheid aus dem Schrank genommen und nach der Übersetzung festgestellt, -gut geschrieben-  ;D  gefällt mir.

Auch die Kommentare in so vielen unterschiedlichen Sprachen gefallen mir  ::)  habe alle übersetzt.

Ik bün ja nich neeisgierig, ick wullt nur geern weeten, wat dat all heet  ???

Grüße von der Küste

CB





Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am Oktober 08, 2017, 20:44:52
Na, dann weißte Bescheid.

Danke für die Mühe!  :-*

Lieben Gruß
Jenny
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Agneta am Oktober 27, 2017, 10:17:55
Hi Jenny,

Some people speak "English to go",
because of its wonderful flow.
But it's nothing more than a show.
I smile, qietly thinking: I know.
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Curd Belesos am Oktober 28, 2017, 14:36:39
I smile, qietly thinking: I know.

...und der Knecht sagte: "jo, jo, mi is dat recht, un melkt de Koh"

Welch ein Sprachgewirr, fast wie auf dem nicht zu Ende gebauten Turm  ::)

LG
CB
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am November 23, 2017, 00:33:12
When I was in Mexico,
I spoke English, too, you know.
Well, the gringos, who were glad,
gave me chocolate and death bread.
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Günter am November 23, 2017, 09:31:06
Hello Searobbery-Jenny,

I don't speek English but I say:

The world speaks the language of the rulers
That's the new belief in power
But every power strangles itself
Then it is washed in the shower
From the truth of life
Then becomes dull the knife

Greetings Günter
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Seeräuber-Jenny am November 23, 2017, 19:01:08
Hi Günter,

If someone told me, I should guess,
if you speak English, I'd say: Yes!
To say, that I can understand
your words, but not your argument.

No "rulers" tell us how to be,
though we speak English easily.
Our German is too difficult
to teach it all over the world.

Well, this might be the simple truth,
why English is frequently used.

Liebe Grüße
Jenny
Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Günter am November 24, 2017, 11:12:02
Hello Jenny,

I think the language is just a belief
but faith is just it will be wrong
I’m sure that we hat this to leave
And  that it not be take much long
The sence is not in trend of the time
Maybe some see it as a crime

Das wird sicher auch nicht mehr erklären?
Liebe Grüße
Günter

Titel: Re: German language’s gonna die
Beitrag von: Grüngold am Dezember 11, 2020, 11:16:48
I like this thread!

Without creating a poem just now, I wouuld like to say that I like the English language in those two forms:
English English and Scottish English.

And I like the German language and also my Alemannic form of German - spoken in the Southern part of the former Grand Duchy of Baden.

And then again: I like anything that has got to do with languages.
In Alemannic now: "Ich ha alles gääärn, was mit Schbrooche z' du hedd!"