This photo was in Der Spiegel in a story about driving schools offering 'crash courses.' To a partial German speaker whose first language is English, this looks really funny. (Der Kurs means a course.) It looks like the driving school offers a class in how to crash.Here's another. The word malerisch is a German adjective. It looks like malaria but means picturesque.
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French for sick, bad, etc., is "mal," i.e., headache is "mal de tete."
So to me, "malerish" looks like a word one would use when feeling just a little under the weather, rather than full scale sick; or when something is kind of bad, rather than full scale heinous.
That's what I like about German. You can build new "German" words out of English words.
For example, downloaden or uploaden, screenen. By using the ending "en" an English verb becomes a German verb. And still English pronounced but oftenly with a very awful German accent. ;)
I love that. Would it be "Ich habe etwas gedownloaden" or "Ich habe etwas gedownloadet?" :)
It would be "Ich habe etwas downgeloadet."
It's funny, I never thought about the fact that the German use of Crashkurs might have a different meaning than the English crash course. Well, actually we use both meanings, to crash into sth. and to learn sth. in short time.
German is such fun!
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