New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for May 19, 2010

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    ksoskins  over 14 years ago

    Leave it to Bieber.

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    grapfhics  over 14 years ago

    Good one, Sheik!

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    zero  over 14 years ago

    @homonylo - you are excused. My grasp of German grammar was a bit off too. Basically it’s something like - “Do you know who this Bieber is?”

    …ich denke

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    pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago

    It says, “Do you know what a ‘Bieber’ would be?”, although I would also give points for “…what a ‘Bieber’ is”.

    Don’t be misled by the tall German S that looks like a lower-case “f” without the cross-bar. If you look at the handwriting in the Declaration of Independence you’ll see that we still used the tall-s in English back then, with the now-universal short-s used only for the end of words. But to the best of my knowledge, the Germans don’t use Fraktur (AKA Gothic) print anymore.

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    cdward  over 14 years ago

    The German says, “Do you know what a Bieber is supposed to be? or just “Do you know what a Bieber is?”

    Could go either way.

    And the answer is, “I don’t want to know.”

    As to the Fraktur, interestingly, they did not use it much in the latter half of the 19th or earlier part of the 20th Centuries, but the Nazi party revived it as being more purely German. I’m always a bit uncomfortable when I see it.

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    pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago

    CD: Your “supposed to be” translation does better capture the “soll sein”. For a foreigner who’s never really lived there, my German is not bad, but I’ll never sound like a native.

    As for Fraktur, I’ve seen many, many German books in Fraktur up to WWII and very few that weren’t. (The only one I can think of was published in America.) Then after their defeat Fraktur virtually disappeared. But I’m ready to believe the Nazi connection.

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    Pab Sungenis creator over 14 years ago

    The main use of the Schwaben font (I would have used Blackletter but it’s unreadable at that size) is mainly to invoke the “German-ness” of the Tiny Little U-Boat.

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    kfaatz925  over 14 years ago

    Loved this one! Thanks, Pab.

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    rotts  over 14 years ago

    When written in cursive, it’s called “Deutsche schrift” (German script).

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    How come all the right wing guys know German? :-)

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    Beiber never learned concentration at his summer camp.

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    jadoo823  over 14 years ago

    …to be fair, (and I’m not a bieber fan) he later explained that due to the interviewer’s accent, he thought that the interviewer had asked about the meaning of the word “Jewman”, and even later said “we don’t use words like that”….for whatever that explanation is worth…

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    The Old Wolf  over 14 years ago

                   

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    grapfhics  over 14 years ago

    Ganz gut!

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    Jungverdorben  over 14 years ago

    FYI, “Bieber” is not the german word for beaver (which would be “Biber”, ok, only one letter off the mark). There is no meaning to the word “Bieber” apart from names, places or rivers. However, as a native german speaker my first thought was also “beaver”, insofar the reference to the WWII mini-submarine was not really wrong. BTW, todays german army does have a armoured vehicle-launched bridge called “Biber” and in contrast to the mini-sub it is not a pre-fab coffin…

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