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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2007-01-17 09:13 am
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Compliments of an acquaintance on the ZBB:
Die, die die, die die Gänse gestohlen haben festnehmen werden, werden belohnt werden.
Perfectly grammatical, if stylistically a touch odd. Does anyone want to have a shot at parsing it before I gloss it for y'all?

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Dice, dice dice, dice dice stolen from the Guernseys that have weird festering, very weird and blonde.

[identity profile] richardthinks.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Those who arrest the ones who stole the geese will be rewarded?

Hang on, I've got some dies and werdens left over...

[identity profile] areia.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently I haven't forgotten as much German as I thought. Google Translate, on the other hand, didn't do so well:
"Those, which are recompenced those, which stole the geese will arrest, will. "

I don't believe 'recompenced' is even a word. At least not with that spelling.

(Oh, and in case you wonder who I am: just a random stranger who also lives in Uptown and loves language.)

[identity profile] cpratt.livejournal.com 2007-01-17 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoever arrests the people that stole the geese will be rewarded.

[identity profile] wwidsith.livejournal.com 2007-01-18 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Nice, this reminds me of the English sentence with 11 "had"s in a row..

[identity profile] nibadi.livejournal.com 2007-01-19 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
fehlt dort nicht ein Komma zwischen haben und festnehmen?