66 Forum Posts by "H4rl3k1n"
A very concise history of the world. Thank you.
You might enjoy reading Frederick Bodmer's "The loom of language". Anyway, enrolling in a course will be an alright start. After a few first steps, you can already listen to music and read simple articles. The beginning is usually the hardest part. Later, you can also develop your skill and knowledge without a proper teacher. But for starters, I highly recommend somebody.
Two cups of coffee, an apple, two glasses of soda and some bread (but German bread) with bacon, salad, tomato, onion and cheese. I really like that.
I replied to the first poll, now let's see the second one.
At 2/18/08 03:13 PM, Vert wrote:
1 - How many American soldiers died on D-Day during the taking of Omaha beach?
Around 80.000. I know this is a bad guess.
2 - Which front, the European East, European West (including the African front) or Pacific, had the total largest number of manpower involved?
The European East. The Soviet Army was huge. In fact, it was too many people so a great deal of their troops had to be equipped by the U.S. For example, they got nine million pairs of boots from you.
3 - Who was the best german, italian and japonese axis commander of WWII? You may name more than one for each country if you wish.
I'm really bad at remembering Japanese names. I do not know any Italian commanders either, since in Germany we usually do not acknowledge the Italian contribution to the Axis. All they did was getting into trouble.
For the German Wehrmacht, I know several generals. The most successful was probably von Manstein. He got the merits for beating France (though that was mostly plain dumb luck) and held the Red Army for quite a long time. Also he was not considered a "Hauptkriegsverbrecher" ("main war criminal"?) in the Nuremberg Process, but he was not spoken guilty at all.
Further Generals are Halder, Rommel (a hero for once beating the British Forces in Africa; the Nazis forced him to commit suicide later) and some more such as Guderian (who by accident managed to win the war against France), Göring, Jodel, Paulus (Stalingrad). I could continue, but I don't like to.
4 - Who was the best american, soviet and british allied commander of WWII? You may name more than one for each country if you wish.
American: Eisenhower, Patton (Wonderfully insane), MacArthur
British: Bernard Law Montgomery, bate Rommel. Also to mention Sir Arthur Harris, in Germany known as "Bomber-Harris".
Soviet: Schukow. I always misspell the name of the other ones. Oh yeah, and there was "Generalissimus" Stalin himself. But he was not more of a general than the Fuhrer.
5 - When and where did the war start?
Autumn of 1939, starting at Gliwice / Gleiwitz, a town at the Polish/German border. I could try naming to exact date (9/11/1939?), but I don't consider it that important. A war does not start with the first shot. Germany had been preparing for several years.
6 - Of these countries, which suffered the biggest (total) number of casualties (both civilian and military) and which suffered the least: France, Germany, Poland, Japan, UK, US or Soviet Union?
Biggest number: Soviet Union, second biggest probably China or Germany. Poland also had massive civilian casualties since the Germans murdered about 3,5 million Polish Jews.
Nationality: German
A strong urge to annoy other people on this forum. And in order to write reviews.
i.e. boredom. I was probably drunk that night.
Can only judge this by the languages I know, for any learnt language gives you a bonus when learning another one.
I guess Sanskrit. It has it's own script and an outstanding number of forms. Modern English is approaching Chinese, but as most people grow up with English, they learn it en passant.
French and Spanish have a more difficult basic grammar, but there are less exceptions (i.e. the rules are not as complicated as in English). Classic Latin (Cicero, Caesar, Terenz etc.) is rather easy. Yes, I know, nobody believes it. I personally did not have any major problems learning it. Rather frusty are languages such as Ancient Greek (the verbs are breaking my neck), Icelandic (also lots of inflections) and Hungarian (completely different grammar).
Of course, one can judge the difficulties only by experience. If your mother tongue is French, you're gonna call Italian, Latin and Spanish easy. Germans are relatively comfortable with other Germanic Languages as well as with Latin and Ancient Greek. If you want to severely torture a Japanese or Chinese or Corean (...), let him study Latin, Ancient Greek (worse) or Sanskrit (instant death). These people are not used to this type of inflections. Same for native English speakers (which might be a pretty good reason to chose a germanic language at school). On the other hand, most of you would have far less difficulties learning Chinese or Japanese or Farsi (spoken in Iran), which a German will probably never manage at all.
At 2/9/08 04:37 PM, zoolrule wrote:At 2/9/08 02:17 PM, H4rl3k1n wrote: Definitely. Their soldiers are so damn well-trained even the US don't dare talking about them.Well trained ? When was the last time the Iceland soldiers were fighting?
And the quality of the training is nothing, what matters is how well the system of the military works on real time, how do the forces work together, the communication, and a lot of other factors, that armies with not experience just don't have.
I'd say Israel are the most "Experienced" but they are just too small, Thats why us, the USA are the strongest.
Anyway, these days it doesn't really matter, because of the nuclear technology.
De facto Iceland does not have a military.
So now you're explaining a German something about military and the German explains a joke to you.
What a wonderful world.
"I should eventually stop drinking. *slurp*"
Of course, the feeling immediately after waking up is a bit uncomfortable. But that will soon go away. A good drinking story is a treasure which lasts your whole life. Carry it with pride, my hippo humping brother. ;-)
Superb. Donate a bottle of fine cheap liquor to this great man.
Only the most brute of all barbarians would call boozing a crime. Indeed, the possibility of access (for adults) to alcoholic beverages and pornographic material seems to be part of a civilized culture. Iran condemns both. That is, the theocratic despots. The people of Iran are quite reasonable.
At 2/9/08 03:59 AM, Risterajas wrote: Forget the futile argument,
It's Iceland guys. Iceland.
Definitely. Their soldiers are so damn well-trained even the US don't dare talking about them.
afaik the people blaming video games for this guy's shootout are quite a minority in Germany. It's always the same histerics, no one important takes them for serious.
It's possible to make up a fascist theory where racism or anti-semitism are not indispensible. Carl Schmitt, a notorious German ideologist of fascism, would provide a reasonable source for that. But without racism and anti-semitism, fascism would simply equal some kind of authocracy. As the term was coined referring to Mussolini's Italy, that definition is nonsense.
Our German tradition of hating America actually roots in the 19th century, when our nation started becoming kinda strange. Moreover, lots of those Germans who liked America back then emigrated from Germany. Also great parts of our anti-American prejudices were made up by propaganda during the two world wars. Finally, the GDR was full of anti-American propaganda.
But no one over here would admit that he is just following a dumb tradition.
So of course, we Germans have made up extremely good reasons to hate America:
It is a nation of decadent people who are at least ultra-capitalist, technocratic, imperialistic, way too christian and...well, I run out of ideas.
Basically, the reason of our hate doesn't matter. It's tradition.
English is accepted as the worldwide second language, so you Americans are lucky. I wouldn't call it lazy, it's just the advantage of living in the centre of global culture. Anyway, it's just damn helpful that one language can be spoken anywhere ("the language of science is broken English").
Same with American sign language.
150 Names within three hours, that's not too bad. Go learn something useful with that mnemotechnique, it's obviously a better one.
And by the way: Nice one.
I like the word "youthanasia". Really. A brilliant pun.
Green. Coz light says "I'm probably gay" and dark "this is an emo kid or worse".
Coffee keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
1. Metallica
2. Manu Chao
3. Morbid Angel
4. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
5. Iced Earth
Enough's enough.
At 8/17/06 11:44 AM, Begoner wrote:
:And no country has the right to take territory from another to "protect itself." By definition, that is aggression, not protection. It is no better than what Nazi Germany did -- in fact, it's worse, because nobody is doing anything about Israel.
Israel is neither gassing Arabs nor conducting any kind of industrial mass murder at all.
Oops, just Omaha Beach? Same mistake as Athlas. I correct my answer, I have no Idea.
At 8/15/06 03:37 PM, Vertigo200 wrote: After the pathetic number of responses my previous post (only 4) on the general forum received, I'm re-posting this here, where hopefully I'll receive more answer...
1 - How many American soldiers died on D-Day during the taking of Omaha beach?
2 - Which front, East or West (including Africa), had the total largest number of manpower involved?
3 - Who was the greatest Axis general of WWII? You may name more than one if you wish.
4 - Who was the greatest Allied general of WWII? You may name more than one if you wish.
5 - Which country captured the biggest number of Japanese soldiers during the war?
6 - Of these countries, which suffered the biggest number of casualties (both civilian and military): China, France, Germany, Japan, UK, US, Soviet Union?
Please note that not all these questions necessarily have a 'right" answer, as they are being used to test perceptions. I thank all those who choose to participate.
1: Roughly 15k, including Canadian and British soldiers. I don't know the separate number of US soldiers.
2: There were more German troops in eastern Europe if you mean that. But I guess you're referring to American soldiers, who have been more engaged in the pacific.
3: I would not call one of the German generals "great", but to answer the question: Manstein, Rommel. Probably, there were some Japanese generals as well, but I do not know their names. Maybe some Italian generals existed, too.
4: De Gaulle.
Just kidding. Montgomery, Patton, McArthur, Eisenhower, Schukow.
5: The United States I guess.
6: The Soviet Union.
Needless to say I'm German.
At 8/14/06 05:34 PM, cOnScRiPtRED wrote: Seriously why are people always insulting the men and woman of the Canadian Armed Forces? I mean we have one the best trained special forces, best light arms, and the toughest, strongest and iron willed infantry around.
Maybe because Canada's kind of French.
How can we support Israel...pizzaidf.org ;-)
At 7/13/06 03:24 AM, Goliath- wrote:At 7/13/06 03:10 AM, Pennmannen wrote: We hate you and you don't know why we hate youSounds like third grade mentality.
Calm down, it's just the European way of hating other nations. Nothing personal, not even political - it's just for our amusement. No need for reasons. By the way, Italy is on top ATM.
1. Adios
2. Alter Mann
3. Sonne
Indeed, some more or less intelligent lyrics by this band [i]do[/i] exist. The translations kill most of the puns and lots of bizarre metaphores, but that's the usual problem with translations.
