BK>  BK>>  Yeah. Yo Rinny. You said it was in Germany, and Rin Tin Tin was
 BK>  BK>>  a *GERMAN* Shepard.

 CH>  That's right! But wasn't 'Snowy" a cute terrior of some
 CH>  sort? All white too? :) I never actually read the comic,
 CH>  mind you. I was only referring to it as the subject of
 CH>  that carpet scene I mentioned liking.

 BK>  Snowy? Who is Snowy?


 The Ennglish translation for Tin Tin's dog IIRC.

 CH> ..............

 CH>  That's what my sister said about learning to speak German
 CH>  when mingling with German speaking people. IT's never the
 CH>  same as what the books teach but is anything like that? We
 CH>  learn more from life than we do books. Books are handy
 CH>  additions; oceans of additional info and insight...but
 CH>  they don't work- alone.

 BK>  I have an aunt who immigrated from Germany. She says, going back
 BK>  to when she was young, there were a lot of dialects in Germany.
 BK>  Many hard for other dialect speakers to understand.

 It would be great if we could all well... understand each other
better... you know even in the SAME launague/dialect it's all to easy
to misunderstand ... :( And then some people do so on purpose. (It's
fun, to them.)
  ..........

 BK>  BK>>  Loos... isn't it?

 CH>  Loos? as in English Bathrooms? :)

 BK>  No, more like Lows without the W.

 Oh.

 BK>   "On the order of "Swing Loos, sweat chariot"

 OH ha but that's spelled LOW  !

 BK>   Does that help?

 Yes. I think.
 ............

 CH> Reember that old English pop song? Lyrics go like:
 CH> "Knock three times if you want me in the mornin'....' (I

 BK>  Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me...
 BK>  Yes, I remember it.

 yeah it was on the ceiling wasn't it! KNock up! ..


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