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

nah, you wanna get one of those ride on powered luggage thingies!

A nice chest made of sapient pearwood should do the trick.

Ooooh, got a spare?

PC, I think you're right. I'm going into withdrawal as is!

ah well, then you will have to take in a train ride from wolverhampton to birmingham whilst over here

i hear segway invented a new model that allows you to sit down

I really hope the new doctor will help.

raumübergreifendes grossgrün? i love it!

Yes, it's something you can tie the to!

you can probably even build houses in it from the sound of it

would I be right in thinking that "raumübergreifendes grossgrün" is some form of german jargon? Google seems to think it means 'tree'?

i'll leave it to mala and tav to explain

i am desperately trying to preserve my danish accent

It does mean "tree", but only to bureaucrats. Literally something like "space-spanning large greenery".

ah, cheers. Good to see bureaucracy is the same everywhere!

i can tell you've never met a german bureaucrat!

Not to talk about the French...

First of all they speak a language that four years of school French no way comes near to, and then they makes thing even more complicated than you thought was possible...

Once I waited three days for a receipt of payment for school lunches during a school trip I attended as parent in charge of the wallet. However, I was told they had made an exemption and processed my request for a receipt with uttermost speed and accurateness!

I'm finding myself often fighting a rearguard action to preserve the Actual German words from being swallowed up by Adspeak. Which is English, but not as we know it.

*strains ears for traces of manly foreign accents - mainly Danish*

Oh, yes, it's terrible! If I ever hear anything described as "softig weich" again, I just may explode.

Having re-read my last post - I should be fighting more to preserve my ability to speak English as she should be spoke!

I think we ought to reintroduce the good old "thou" - it'll make the place seem much friendlier

If you speak to proper Yorkshire people, you'll notice they have never really stopped using it. (I'm not really a "real" one since I don't have the accent)