Bitte doubles as please and you're welcome.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sparky1 - Jan 12, 2007 9:26:05 am PST #562 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
sumi - Jan 12, 2007 9:27:31 am PST #563 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Is it geshundheit?
SailAweigh - Jan 12, 2007 9:28:50 am PST #564 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Bitte doubles as please and you're welcome.
True, dat. I'd forgotten.
Ginger - Jan 12, 2007 9:29:40 am PST #565 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Notes on bitte: [link] Bitte is used fairly often as the equivalent of "don't mention it."
Hil R. - Jan 12, 2007 9:31:05 am PST #566 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Danke is Thank You. Bitte is You're Welcome. Those, plus "kinder" and a few food names, are pretty much the only German that's survived the three generations my family's been in America.
SailAweigh - Jan 12, 2007 9:31:28 am PST #567 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Bitte is used fairly often as the equivalent of "don't mention it."
Very much like the Spanish "de nada." Shows you how long it's been since I studied German!
EpicTangent - Jan 12, 2007 9:34:19 am PST #568 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
So what you're all saying is, I wasn't the confused one? Woot! Love when that happens!
-t - Jan 12, 2007 9:34:53 am PST #569 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
IIRC, "little" is "bisschen", so, kind of close. As in "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" "Ein bisschen."
I just accidentally sent an e-mail to a mailing list instead of my husband. I'll be spending the rest of the day under a rock, mortifying away.
DavidS - Jan 12, 2007 9:36:52 am PST #570 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Very much like the Spanish "de nada."
Or the American "no biggie."
Astarte - Jan 12, 2007 9:38:45 am PST #571 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
And while we're on the German lesson, it's "gesundheit". [link]