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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Will you timewasters stop it. Let me get back to my Comparative Slavonic Grammar. And Klingon particles.

ghost · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 1693 Location: Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabia team has two long jumpers who are real medal contenders, and have both jumped well over 8 metres this year.

And those two guys are real Saudis, unlike Bahrain, Qatar which import athletes from Kenya and Ethiopia and then change their names!

Saudi has no imported athletes.

Track and field action starts next Friday, August 15. Watch this space for updates on the Saudi fortunes.

How is the coverage in Saudi. I am not there yet?

Ghost

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

This is better, ladies and gentlemen. The fur is flying. Tempers are frayed.
BTW I see nothing wrong with an interest in the Balkans or modern German literature. I can't imagine Gunther Grass enjoying Riyadh, however. Even if he were alive.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In the strange alternative reality of Imamradlinrol GG may be dead. In the real universe inhabited by mere mortals like us, Volksgenosse Grass is alive and well. He not long ago survived the admission that he had been in the Waffen SS. Something he kept quiet for many years.

Actually Grass is not my main man. Thomas Mann is he. Also very keen on Hans Fallada.

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

johnslat · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

My German is a trifle rusty (despite all the WW II movies I've seen) but I believe a fair translation of Volksgenosse would be "national comrade" or compatriot. But of course, that's merely the denotation; it omits the sinister connotations. GG by the way, is 70 years old, a spring chicken.
Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Born in October 1927 he will be 81 soon. No spring chicken. Were he seventy he could hardly have done service for Fuehrer and Fatherland in the Waffen SS !

johnslat · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:39 am Post subject:

Whoops, my mistake. I guess he wasn't a premature fascist.

Regards,
John

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

Hitler Youth?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

How did we get here ?

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

I think you accepted a job in Saudi... many many many years ago...

VS

johnslat · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

"How did we get here ?"

Considering how long you've been there, my guess would be you arrived in the back seat of a de Havilland Gipsy Moth.

Regards,
John

Griff-James · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

Thank you, Oscar Wilde Very Happy

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain