h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Die Front Deutscher Äpfel - The German Apple Front - A40057913
Author: Malabarista - as unpredictable as a tentacle - U1528154

This entry would have been *so* much easier in German!

Links to follow, as usual, and I'll get around to replacing all the umlauts with their proper codes eventually

Irony is English humour - do not allow these foreign satirists to steal our precious self-depreciation.

When I was in Bielefeld I went into the wrongh pub one August Bank Holiday - of course by then it was too late so we stayed and had 2 beers before leaving.

An organisation worth publicising.

I wonder whether they'll let non-Germans play, too

Replaced all the umlauts with their codes.

All translations are mine, btw, so if anyone spots a mistake...

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one too many "the"

I knew nothing of this, so thanks for the enlightenment, Mala

GB

Thanks, GB, changed! There was a line break between those for me, didn't spot it.

(Oh, and the only information available in English was a bad translation of *part* of the Wiki entry and another bad English entry in "flags of the world". The rest was just plain wrong, people taking them seriously.

So this isn't just plugging a gap in the Guide, it's plugging a gap in the internet!

As is my holy duty

*closes parenthesis* )

Gaah! I hate an open parenthesis!

I think Neo-Nazi(s) would be the more usual written form, rather than Neonazi(s)

Like others, this is news to me, so well done for bringing it to our attention

*continues to read*

I when I read your translation of 'und gegen faul herumlungerndes Fallobst' as 'and against rotten windfall layabouts'

Your 'layabouts' is meant in the sense of 'layarounds' - ie left lying on the ground where it falls, but in English, a *layabout* would normally be understood as being a lazy, idle person.

But then perhaps you tended that allusion all the time

No, that was quite intentional, because "faul" means both rotten *and* lazy. So I was trying to get that all into the sentence.

Excellent

This is brilliant, Malabarista. So well written.

Just one small thing:



Can you just explain how "boxer shorts" might crop up in the text of a political speech? We need to know.

Wow, Mala, I had never heard of this before.

Great entry.

H5, the common spelling is Neonazi.

Hmmm, no, I do get about 50% more English language search engine hits for neo-Nazi than for Neonazi, will change that then. (Search for "neo nazi" as opposed to "neonazi", because putting the hyphen in searches for both!)

And the boxer shorts would be confusing, sorry, made perfect sense to me. You can buy them in the web shop, with a COFDÄPL logo.

Oh, I didn't know you'd have to translate Neonazi.

Not sure about the capitalisation. Neo-Nazi, neo-Nazi, neo-nazi?

I think neo-Nazi

Hopefully you don't think *like* one

I'll look around - does that sound right to everyone?

I agree with h5ringer - neo-Nazi

Seems the most common on the web, too. Will change.