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Matthew Fisher (X)
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német - angol
Jan 29, 2014

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This one made me laugh out loud. Can you top this?

"Die Entität in der DB wurde folgendermaßen upgedated."
 
Daniel Bird
Daniel Bird  Identity Verified
Egyesült Királyság
Local time: 23:22
német - angol
Nein, das kann ich nicht toppen Jan 29, 2014


DB
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Franciaország
Local time: 00:22
francia - angol
Franglais surely Jan 29, 2014

The French like to be the exception.

They fight hard to preserve their language,

And that entails calling a mixture of French and English "franglais".
 
Claire Bourneton-Gerlach
Claire Bourneton-Gerlach  Identity Verified
Németország
Local time: 00:22
német - francia
+ ...
Getoppt! Jan 29, 2014

de>en wrote:


"Die Entität in der DB wurde folgendermaßen upgedated."


Wo hast Du das denn downgeloaded? Oder doch vielleicht geforwardet bekommen?
 
oxygen4u
oxygen4u
Portugália
Local time: 23:22
angol - portugál
+ ...
@Claire Jan 29, 2014

"Wo hast Du das denn downgeloaded? Oder doch vielleicht geforwardet bekommen?"

I thought no one could come up with something similar to "upgadated". Well done!
 
Matthew Fisher (X)
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Local time: 18:22
német - angol
TÉMAINDÍTÓ
Franglais, of course! Jan 30, 2014

(slaps forehead)

Those tenacious French. Of course.

Oh my, "upgedated" appears in both dict.cc and linguee.de. That's just too horrible. Don't look.

But I must give top honors to downgeloaded.

Academics may drone on about the relative merits of downgeloadet vs. gedownloadet... weil es um die Bildung des Partizips II geht ...
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(slaps forehead)

Those tenacious French. Of course.

Oh my, "upgedated" appears in both dict.cc and linguee.de. That's just too horrible. Don't look.

But I must give top honors to downgeloaded.

Academics may drone on about the relative merits of downgeloadet vs. gedownloadet... weil es um die Bildung des Partizips II geht ...

http://www.grammatikfragen.de/showthread.php?58-quot-gedownloadet-quot-vs.-quot-downgeloaded-quot

... but the true connoisseur knows the proper form to be "downgeloaded"! ▲ Collapse
 


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