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01-07-2014, 08:24 PM
Post: #16
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Happy Birthday, Eva!

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01-07-2014, 08:57 PM
Post: #17
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Happy Birthday, Eva! Will you share with us what Laurie and Joe wrote?
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01-07-2014, 08:59 PM (This post was last modified: 01-07-2014 09:09 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #18
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You are so wonderful, thank y'all! Laurie, thanks for wishing me Happy Easter! (I'm just kidding, that phrase is perfect!) Joe, yours is very creative indeed! Ok, I'll now share with you what I look like after so many exaggerations:
   

Well, Linda, both said "Happy Birthday", and what Joe added, well, was almost what Laurie said in English, just worded in Joe's way (I hope I worded that well).
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01-07-2014, 09:19 PM
Post: #19
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Happy Birthday

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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01-07-2014, 09:29 PM
Post: #20
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(01-07-2014 08:59 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  You are so wonderful, thank y'all! Laurie, thanks for wishing me Happy Easter! (I'm just kidding, that phrase is perfect!) Joe, yours is very creative indeed! Ok, I'll now share with you what I look like after so many exaggerations:


Well, Linda, both said "Happy Birthday", and what Joe added, well, was almost what Laurie said in English, just worded in Joe's way (I hope I worded that well).

I suspect you are being modest, Eva, so until Wild Bill helps out, this is what I got from translation.babylon.com:

"Happy birthday Mrs. Eva! Their German intelect never stops, us too surprises!"

The Google translation says:

"Happy birthday wife Eva! Your German intelect never ceases to amaze us!"
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01-07-2014, 09:34 PM (This post was last modified: 01-07-2014 09:40 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #21
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I wish Joe was (were?) modest! Ok, I surrender, he used Google translation, but "wife" and "Mrs." are the same word in German (Frau), and on the way back Google chose the wrong English one.
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01-07-2014, 09:44 PM
Post: #22
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(01-07-2014 09:34 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  I wish Joe was (were?) modest! Ok, I surrender, he used Google translation, but "wife" and "Mrs." are the same word in German (Frau), and on the way back Google chose the wrong English one.

Eva, is there a word for Ms. in German?
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01-07-2014, 10:35 PM (This post was last modified: 01-07-2014 10:52 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #23
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No, it's "Frau" also, for married and unmarried ladies. But our "Miss" (=Fräulein) doesn't officially exist anymore. But instead most job titles have (hello political correctness) a male and female form, e.g. a male doctor is "ein Arzt" or "ein Doktor", and a female doctor is "eine Ärztin" or "eine Doktorin". Thus when I hear the English word "doctor", I automatically think of a man, and then I'm quite surprised when I learn it's a woman.
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01-07-2014, 10:48 PM
Post: #24
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Thanks, Eva. I think many of us in the States assume that a doctor is a man, too, although the word is the same for both men and women. That is changing, though, as more women become doctors.
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01-07-2014, 10:51 PM
Post: #25
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In Germany definetely more women than men become doctors, it's ~60% : 40%.
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01-08-2014, 06:18 AM
Post: #26
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I know I am now a day late, but Happy Birthday, Eva!
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01-08-2014, 06:44 AM
Post: #27
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Thank you, I had that (a happy day)!
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01-08-2014, 10:34 AM
Post: #28
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Eva. I'm glad that you had a happy birthday. And, don't worry. The strange feeling of starting a new decade of life will wear off quickly. lol
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01-08-2014, 11:30 AM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2014 01:11 PM by Eva Elisabeth.)
Post: #29
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Next year I'll say "I'm approaching..." (just from the other side). Lol.
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01-08-2014, 12:00 PM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2014 12:00 PM by Gene C.)
Post: #30
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My mother, who was beginning to suffer from dementia, said with a twinklie in her eyes on the day after her birthday, "I don't remember celibrating my birthday yesterday, I'll have to do it agian today". She celebrated the whole month.

So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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