Wednesday, November 18, 2009

1119 German Haiku Comments

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German is an amazing language - because it is so so Germanic it always ahs an inbuilt authority. I went to Oberammagau in 2000 and when Jesus was castigating the money changers for desicarating The Temple (His Father's House) He sounded much more authoritative in German than in English. When you recite German Poetry you have to really mean it to get the full efect. Even if you can't speak German try saying the following Haikus and you will see what I mean. German is reasonably phonetic - except that 'W' is pronounced as 'V'. Because of the sentence structure of the German Language the English translation does not follow line for line. Because they have a common source many words in Eglish and German are very similar so I am sure you will easily recognise which line matches which!

KUHLE LUFT WEHT AUF
DER KLANG DER ABENDGLOCKE
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Christine Schmidt 25 November 2009

John-I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS! My son learned a little German the last couple years in school, so I did get a chance to read some of his text books. I like the German language too. I had a piano teacher who was from Germany, so once in a while I would hear him speak to his family over the phone-very fun to listen to, but too fast for me to catch the words :) ....I did read these outloud though-you put the fun into these haikus-A+ ~Christine

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