Aha. That makes sense

Dunno, one of my teachers claimed the German language was ruined by Catholicism (Holy Roman Empire and all that). I think he grew up in East Germany...

And German did drop the thing that Danish still has where the definite article is attached to the end of the noun.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on July 13th 2014 at 21:49:55

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Could Schweinsteiger look any more German? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 13, 21:27:39
- Only with the use of a sleeveless denim jacket covered in pin-badges. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Jul 13, 21:34:03
- With poo all over his face, perhaps (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Jul 13, 21:31:29
- Literally translated: pig farmer (n/m) (General Chat) - Mark Barham, Jul 13, 21:30:19
  - Not literally translated as pig farmer. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:36:51
    - Interesting. Very old form of Steiger then? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:40:18
      - I can't remember exactly, I think it was bastardised (very un-Germanic language behaviour) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:43:37
        
        Hence the 'steig' aspect of it - specifically driving up a hill (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:44:27
        
        Aha. That makes sense (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:49:55
        
        This is true actually. There's been a few fairly revolutionary fundamental grammar changes (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 21:52:32
        
        Haha (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 22:01:19
        
        Ah that's interesting. Who knows then. (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jul 13, 22:06:11
        
        Definitely someone from Schweinsteig (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 22:17:35
  - Der Steiger is a foreman or overseer (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 21:34:56
    - Pig supervisor. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 21:39:42
    - Pig Driver?? (n/m) (General Chat) - Mark Barham, Jul 13, 21:37:35
- Small moustache? Monocle? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Jul 13, 21:30:11
- This thread is going to end badly, I fear (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jul 13, 21:28:17
  - *distances self from thread* (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Jul 13, 21:34:53
  - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Jul 13, 21:28:50

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