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[Icewing]

I'm German, and yet, if I had black hair and dark eyes, I would look Asian. I swear there is Japan or China somewhere in my heritage. For all I know, neither Germans nor Russians have yellow skin.

Wow. I feel like an idiot. This us the third time I've done 2+2=2 on my math homework >_<

[Rhemiyl]

Oh weird. Math is weird.

But yea, I don't think they do, Russians are super pale. :I

[Icewing]

Yeah, I have a Russian friend, she's actually an English teacher who makes me grade papers XD , and she is way pale.
On the other hand, I have yellow skin, and someone thought my sister was Argentenian XD Not exactly typical skin colours for half Russian Germans who should have überly pale skin XD

[Rhemiyl]

Ok, first off, kudos on actually taking the time to properly spell über :{D

It's getting more difficult to figure people out these days. I can at least tell most Asians apart or most Europeans but when it comes to America it's like "good luck trying".

[Icewing]

*Pokes German heritage* You must be joking if you think I'm actually going to spell a word as simple as 'über' incorrectly XD

Yeah, America is pure confusingness.

Wow, I've actually gotten around to reading The Tin Drum. I really need to find a German copy of it so I can improve my reading skills.

[Rhemiyl]

I wish I knew more German. I knew basic curse words and how to say "there's an electrical cat in your belly button" when I was a kid but all I know now is the super basics. I might give it another shot. :I

I haven't read that yet, how was it?

[Icewing]

Lol XD One of my friends also has a highly proficient vocabulary when it comes to cussing in German, but he doesn't know much else. It really irks me when Americans try to speak German, because they tend to have such terrible accents and pronunciation. Although, it is funny when you hear someone say the weather is gay, since the German words for hot and humid(Schwül), and gay(Schwul) are one bit of pronunciation that most Americans seem to overlook. It causes some very funny situation.

No clue, I'm only about ten pages in right now XD You have to look at it from an interesting angle, though. It's told by a patient in a mental institute, so it gets a bit confusing.

[Rhemiyl]

Ok, so reading that.

But I bet that's alot like Chinese. (at least in Mandarin) Mother and horse were incredibly close in pronunciation. My teacher (she was funny, this super Irish old lady that taught Spanish and her son was in China for school and she learned the language and taught us afterschool) told us of plenty of incidents she had like that.

[Icewing]

It's really funny so far. The main character has a very twisted view on the world.

'Horse! what's for dinner?' I could totally see myself shouting that XD

[Rhemiyl]

I could, too. I remember someone making a similar mistake and she just cracked up and went on one of her famous tangents. I miss that class (and the many others XD I had her for study hall and Spanish).

[Icewing]

Yeah, my German teacher is like that. She, Xeno, and myself always get a major laugh whenever someone mucks up the pronunciation of something and totally embarrasses themselves. I remember once a kid said he ate a cash register for dinner(Cash register=Kasse. Cheese = Käse)

I think I'll be going to bed now, I'll have to get a bit of sleep if I want to stay awake during math tomorrow. We're doing test prep *shudders*

[Rhemiyl]

Sounds like a fun day is in store... Sleep well, kid :{D Night~

[Icewing]

Well, hopefully test prep won't be too boring. Only two more days of math

[Xenocena]

Sorry to jump into your conversation, but pronunciation mix-ups in German can be quite funny, and sometimes disastrous. And in Spanish, too. I don't take Spanish right now, but when I did, we learned about a few false cognates- they sound the same as a word in English, but they don't mean the same thing. The most epic of those is probably the word 'embarazado'. It sounds like the word 'embarrassed' in English, but it actually means 'pregnant'. This can cause quite a few hilarious mix ups when an 11 year old boy tells everyone that he is 'very pregnant'.

[Rhemiyl]

Hahaha~ I know what you mean. I love when the teacher would try getting us to make those mistakes like "quantos años tienes?" is roughly "how old are you" or more literally "how many years do you have?". I'm sure you've learned that, but people would often make the terrible mistake of "quantos anos tienes" which would be asking how many anuses do you have. Fun stuff.