in case you wondered, viva, it’s “Auf Wiedersehen”… So, you weren’t that far off.
“Wiedersehen” = “later-to-see.”
This message brought to you by the Germanic Spelling Council.
“Creating long-ass compound words since 700 AD.”
I’ll beat her sane.*
*Ouch, this phonetics game is harder that it looks!
Danke Schoen, Dar*ling, Danke Schoen…
(sp?)
Sprechen zee Dork?
ghobe’ 'ach jIH jatlh tlhIngan.
Hmmmm…that last word is “Klingon.”
I only get 1 point.
“No, but I speak Klingon”. Or so says the spiffy generator I found… the only word of it I know is the ever popular p’taQ.
I bow to your superior geekiness.
:sniffle: That’s the nicest compliment I’ve had in a while.
Actually, “Auf Wiedersehn” is a contraction without the apostrophe (Gracious Goddess, aren’t German compound nouns long enough?) for “Auf Wiedersehen”. It can be loosely and confusingly rendered in English as “In anticipation of again [we] see [each other].” What interests me about the variant Vivalostwages proposed, “Auf Wiederschein”, is how startlingly appropriate it would be as a Trek farewell. You see, it means “Until we appear again.” Like on a transporter pad, with the sparklies and everything. I vote we adopt it immediately as an official Trek saying.
A friend and I were trying to figure out this morning if “Carpe diem” might actually mean “beat the fish.” Um… it was his idea, I swear.
(I do apologize for getting so geeky about German grammar, but I paid twenty thousand dollars to be able to do it, and, as you might imagine, it ain’t like the opportunity comes up all that often.)
So long as you ain’t one of them there Star Wars nerds, you’re fine wit’ me, McJohn. We can’t be havin’ those sorts of people 'round here.
Auf Wiederschein.
Um… I never got into “Star Wars”. I’m sorry. Not enough booty-kicking babes in “Star Wars”. It’s left huge gaps in my cultural surround, and many people regard my claim to be an American with grave suspicion as a result.
[Transporter sound effect] Auf Wiederschein. [\Transporter sound effect]
I hope it isn’t adopted. I can’t spell auf wiedersehen as it is. If we have to change it to auf wiederschein every time, I’ll just be lost.
May Escaltor stomp you all!
Speaking of All Trek…I just had a Crewman Daniels sighting last night. He took over Jack Nicholson’s position upon his retirement, in About Schmidt.
I was expecting the Geeky Chubby Vulcan Guy to show up at some point, but he did not materalize.
What’s wrong, NCB? You are disappointed? You are confused?
You do not know what to say?
I have no clue as to what you are saying.
There, you happy?
Geeky chubby vulcan guy = ?
The guy in “Fusion,” from the ship of Vulcans Without Logic. I think he befriended Trip.
Ah…
You are good.
You sound like Pakled now. I am good. We look for things. Things that make us go. This is NCB. He is my friend. You think we are not smart?
I seriously liked the Pakleds. Reminded me of home.
I though Geeky chubby Vulcan guy was the engineer from Voyager that tried to have hot monkey sex with B’ellana. Can’t remember the name of him to save my life though.
But, he wasn’t chubby, was he?
I liked the muderous Betazoid guy from V’ger.