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Re: [T3] German motoring phrases (was "Farvegnugen")



Daniel Baum wrote:

>
> Anyway, the real German work for exhaust  - Auspuff - is so funny that it
> hardly needs any parodying.
>
> Daniel Baum

And, of course, when you travel on German autobahns for the first time you are
amazed at the signs for the exit and entry ramps "Ausfahrt" and "Infahrt".
And, then when you go to a German newspaper and magazine shop and you see on
their shelves that wonderful German Volkswagen magazine "Gutefahrt" for sale,
you just crack up.

I also find it funny when the Type3 Karmann Ghia is described as "Der grosse
Karmann Ghia", especially when something horrible or distasteful here is
described as "gross".

However, just as we here find some American English phrases funny, there must
be many phrases in English that Germans find funny or odd, too!  Anyone know
any of these especially in relation to cars and VWs.

Simon Glen
Toowoomba,  Australia.


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