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| Thu, 06-19-2008 - 8:58am |
Well I started working on Finn's first game on "Make Your Own-Opoly". I'd decided the first one will be "Deutschland-Opoly" because I want him to have a German game we can play over the summer so we can have at least one thing to do with German that isn't academic. I've already run into a few phrases I didn't know in German, that I couldn't figure out how to translate on my own. So I've started from Babelfish online translation a few time, checking in my German to English dictionary to see if their suggestion made sense. The first thing I've run into is that the website only gives the "Sie" verb conjugation. This got me to thinking: someone that you're playing a game with (in this instance Finn and I) would probably be a "du" relationship so isn't it odd to use the "Sie" conjugation in this game. So far, it's an issue in places like "Collect $100", which I've gone with the Babelfish suggestion of "Sammeln Sie $100".
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Yeah, I'd use the "du"-form for the game, formal sounds odd. In your case, that would be "sammle". Although, in the context of the game, I wouldn't use "sammeln" at all, but use "abholen" instead (in the du-form, that's "hole 100$ ab")
By the way, a good dictionary is at http://dict.leo.org/
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Yes, "sammeln" didn't feel right, or the Sie form. I did notice several other words under "collect"s dictionary entry, but of course babelfish went with the first in its memory
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Yea, that is my point. It is the usage I use with my family and such. I do use the Sie form of course when out and such but I use the du so much more and it is not in the buch. It kills me sometimes. I guess that is why I don't use the books much to my DH unhappiness, I just don't like the way some things are presented in the books. Some of the forms and some of the dialect. One books prefers southern words and somethings native to Bavaria or Austria, doesn't help me much. I need something based on general german or a Berliner dialect.
Ehhh books...
ack that would be hard dealing with a book that prefered one region over another. Being in the US, most of what I get my hands on is Hochdeutsch, so it's not generally a worry for me. I eventually do need to find some book in the Bayerish dialect, help Finn and I with talking to my grandma
hehe, you slipped and typed "buch". Sometimes I worry about my novel writing... I most often write in English while listening to Rammstein. Then my beta reader is bilingual French and English and I catch her codeswitching between the two sometimes
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