I get that, but which way do the Germans do it?
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megan walker - Aug 24, 2009 8:38:38 am PDT #3902 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fiona - Aug 24, 2009 8:40:41 am PDT #3903 of 30000
I haven't seen IB yet, but the whitefont is hilarious. Because I have been teaching my children to show numbers the British way, and then they come back from school and Kindergarten and do them the German way. Perfect spys in the making, what the bilinguialism and all as well .
ETA: also reminds me of a very nice wartime British movie "Went the Day Well?", where a group of Germans inflitrates a perfect little English village and give themselves away by putting a line through their sevens, amongst other things.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:07 am PDT #3904 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
megan - according to the movie, Germans do it thumb, index, middle. Whether that has anything to do with reality, I don't know. NOTHING in the rest of the movie has much to do with reality, so there's lots of wiggle room.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:09 am PDT #3905 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Germans use the thumb, megan.
Fiona - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:55 am PDT #3906 of 30000
Whether that has anything to do with reality, I don't know.
No, it's true. I can confirm it!
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 8:44:09 am PDT #3907 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
where a group of Germans inflitrates a perfect little English village and give themselves away by putting a line through their sevens, amongst other things.
And saying things like "Guten morgan, mein damen"?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 24, 2009 8:44:12 am PDT #3908 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I get that, but which way do
Megan, thumb, index, middle.
megan walker - Aug 24, 2009 8:45:31 am PDT #3909 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ah. The French count that way too.
ETA: Of course, they also do the seven thing. I didn't realize Brits don't do that.
Fiona - Aug 24, 2009 8:47:40 am PDT #3910 of 30000
And saying things like "Guten Morgen, meine Damen"?
Slightly more subtle than that. Otherwise it would have been a very short film.
Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2009 8:49:41 am PDT #3911 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I've also heard a story, possibly anecdotal, about how the US Army hired sociologists to root out German spies in the ranks, and they were able to find them by how they used a knife and fork.