[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel

[Marco Leise]

Am 11.11.2011, 22:34 Uhr, schrieb Simen Kjærås <simen.kjaras at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:33:10 +0100, Daniel Gibson  
> <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 11.11.2011 20:50, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> On 11/11/2011 11:23 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>>> Sadly though, something similar happened before: Husband kills her
>>>> separated
>>>> wife after misunderstanding her text message (or something like that).
>>>> Although
>>>> I can't find a link to the news story now.
>>>
>>> Reminds me of a bit in one of those old WW2 documentaries. A british
>>> soldier was taught a bit of german. One day, he comes up on a german
>>> occupied pillbox and orders:
>>>
>>> Raus! Oder ich shiessen (Come out, or I'll shoot!)
>>>
>>> He was mystified by the sounds of laughter coming from the pillbox.
>>> Eventually, the germans did come out and surrender, and they told him
>>> he'd actually said:
>>>
>>> Raus! Oder ich sheissen (Come out, or I'll shit!)
>>
>> Actually English speaking people tend to confuse "ei" and "ie" all the  
>> time, like in "Weiner" (supposed to be "Wiener"), Scheiße/Schieße etc
>
> Not to mention Deimos/Diemos, which popped up here a short while ago. :p

And mysteriously it was me, a German, who made the correction, haha. Full  
circle.