On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 07:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:21:38PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. in Germany the 2CV is called "Ente" (duck), > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_2CV#Nicknames . > > So if you yell out "Ente" in Germany, are they likely to look up, or > crouch down quickly? :)
Young Germans don't know the 2CV anymore, even the original Volkswagen Beetle is a rarity in Germany. I haven't seen a 2CV for years and I only saw a few original Volkswagen Beetles (Käfer) within the last years. IOW, if you yell out "Ente", people assume that there is a bird and not a car. A man from Great Britten I know, often was joking about "auto-aggressive", since the German word for car is "Auto", so driving a car in a ruthless way for him was "auto-aggressive". He was a platonic friend of a former Girlfriend of me. This girlfriend was auto-aggressive by the psychological meaning and when she drove the car in a "sporting" way, he called her kind of driving "auto-aggressive". British humor :). _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
