I am suddenly very proud I have not Americanized my name.
Your name is already Americanized! I mean, isn't it German?
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 27, 2009 8:45:11 am PDT #21402 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lee - May 27, 2009 8:49:36 am PDT #21403 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
But we pronounce it the German way.
Jesse - May 27, 2009 8:50:02 am PDT #21404 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
German = American, is what I'm saying.
DavidS - May 27, 2009 8:50:48 am PDT #21405 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Your name is already Americanized! I mean, isn't it German?
It's true. Germans are the dominant American ethnicity by numbers. Hence, we are the default and everybody else is an outlier who should conform to our krautmaking, spaetzel-eating, word-conjoining ways.
Also, we like to conquer the world periodically. Or more accurately, we like to try.
Cashmere - May 27, 2009 8:50:55 am PDT #21406 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
msbelle, thanks for the socks! We seriously needed them because Owen refuses to go barefoot even outside and he tends to go through socks very quickly.
We also met a friend of my sister's and their adopted baby boy from Ethiopia. That baby made my ovaries ache, he resets the scale on adorable.
Kathy A - May 27, 2009 8:54:03 am PDT #21407 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Also, we like to conquer the world periodically. Or more accurately, we like to try.
Reminds me of the Bette Midler line about her husband being German: "Every night, I dress up like Poland, and he invades me."
juliana - May 27, 2009 8:55:19 am PDT #21408 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I have no idea how I could Americanize my name. Drop the 'ana' from the first name, sure, but the last is nsm Americanize-able.
DavidS - May 27, 2009 8:57:00 am PDT #21409 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have no idea how I could Americanize my name. Drop the 'ana' from the first name, sure, but the last is nsm Americanize-able.
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Gudanov - May 27, 2009 8:57:07 am PDT #21410 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I'm not sure there is an unamerican way to pronounce my name.
Lee - May 27, 2009 8:57:16 am PDT #21411 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
German = American, is what I'm saying.
Ah. Then yes.