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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yesterday night I watched again that Woody Allen's classic, so I said to myself: why not play again the "Where are you from?" poll with maybe more accurate entries this time? So that's what I did: 1. I was informed there are still people North of the Great Lakes and South of Rio Grande, so I added "Quebec", "Canada" and " Americas" to the list; 2. I was informed Finland is not really Scandinavia, so now I am using the correct term Nordic Countries, which should include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories. 3. I removed the not-so-crowded entries with zero votes so far (sorry Ireland, Scotland & Wales, Former Yugoslavia area, Former USSR area, China, Japan, rest of Asia, Israel and Disney World); 4. in order to list *all* US states, as someone asked for, I grouped them in regions (there can be no more than 32 options in a poll). I used some traditional names for some US regions, I found them on Wikipedia, like "New England", "Farm Belt", "Mountain" and "Old Dixie", I hope you don't mind. 5. England is now split in Southern vs. Northern and Midlands. 6. Since there are lots and lots of Deutschen out there, let's narrow down!: Are you from the South or from the North, or in the middle of Germany? (roughly speaking!) 7. Mars is now aggregated to Outer Space! | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | -reserved for future use- | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,380 |
| | Posted: | | | | Nordic, best part of Europe  |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'll compete for the most-difficult-to-pronounce town name: 's-Hertogenbosch. It's a medieval town around 100 km / 60 miles south of Amsterdam. |
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 | Armand | | Melancholic Undead Master |
| Registered: March 16, 2007 |  Posts: 83 |
| | Posted: | | | | Born: North germany(Baltic Sea), Life: South germany (munich)
@Enry: You are so interested in "where are we from", why you did not use the location field of your member profile to tell us, where are you from? |
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| Registered: December 16, 2007 | | Posts: 926 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
I'll compete for the most-difficult-to-pronounce town name:
's-Hertogenbosch.
It's a medieval town around 100 km / 60 miles south of Amsterdam. And the birthplace of Jeroen Bosch, painter extraordinaire. |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 94 |
| | Posted: | | | | Born in Northeast Pennsylvania. Settled in Maryland.
Heritage is Pennsylvania Dutch (old German, to confuse you a little), among others.
Rink | | | | Kittens give Morbo gas. |
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 | Berak | | Bibamus morieundum est! |
| Registered: May 10, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Still Stavanger, Norway - home of the Vikings and the Midnight Sun...  | | | Berak
It's better to burn out than to fade away!
True love conquers all! |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 53 |
| | Posted: | | | | In the middle of Germany: Born in Braunschweig and life in Goslar!   | | | | Last edited: by Snoopy_7 |
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| Registered: April 4, 2007 | | Posts: 887 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting dee1959jay: Quote:
I'll compete for the most-difficult-to-pronounce town name:
's-Hertogenbosch.
It's a medieval town around 100 km / 60 miles south of Amsterdam. I do speak Dutch and I'm always having problems pronouncing that one. Another (vlaams) one is Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor. I always shudder when I see it on the highway board. | | | | - Jan |
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here you can hear how it should be pronounced. However, there's a perfectly good German translation: Herzogenbusch! For our French friends: Bois-le-Duc! In Spanish: Bolduque. Italian: Boscoducale. Latin: Silva Ducis. There just does not seem to be an English name around... (except during our annual jazz festival, which is called Jazz in Duke Town - but that's not an accurate translation) P.S. Don't know if you heard about this before, but during WW2 Dutch resistance members tried to verify whether new resistance members were actually German infiltrators by making them pronounce "Scheveningen". If they were actually German agents, this would expose them. 's-Hertogenbosch would have done the trick as well, I reckon. | | | | Last edited: by dee1959jay |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 78 |
| | Posted: | | | | Why the differentiation in North, South and middle Germany? Normally it's East and West Germany. Born in Wuppertal, Germany and still living there. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,005 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 762 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, born in Germany, Oberhausen, Rhld (in the middle so to say) but I live in Schoharie, NY.
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting schizzzo: Quote:
Why the differentiation in North, South and middle Germany? Normally it's East and West Germany.
[...] Maybe I am wrong and the East / West differentiation would be a more logical one, but I think there are somehow different traditions that differentiate the North and the South, also for historic reasons.  | | | | -- Enry |
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