by Smitty
The designated cat herder on Monday the 22nd is Bob Schieffer. Let’s just see what his surname is derived from in die alte sprache:
| Adjektive/Adverbien (19 of 26) | ||||
| agley also: agly adv. (Scot.) | schief | |||
| askance also: askant adv. | schief | |||
| askew adj. adv. | schief | |||
| aslant adj. adv. | schief | |||
| aslope adj. adv. | schief | |||
| awry adj. adv. | schief | |||
| bevel adj. [tech.] | schief | |||
| beveledespAE / bevelledespBE adj. [tech.] | schief | |||
| biaswise adj. rare | schief | |||
| cock-eyed adj. | schief | |||
| cockeyed adj. | schief | |||
| crooked adj. | schief | |||
| cross adj. | schief | |||
| inclined adj. | schief | |||
| inconsistent adj. | schief | |||
| leaning adj. | schief | |||
| lopsided adj. | schief | |||
| lopsidedly adv. | schief | |||
| oblique adj. also [tech.] | schief | |||
alter sprach for an alter kocker. How fitting.
That’s very good work, Smitty. Romney will be debating two persons again. I see an adjective that applies to O too: crooked.
This is a good time to link to Rowan Atkinson’s bit in German.
I laff every time. (I took a semester of German in Kollidge. I don’t remember much, but I did learn English from it, und so weider).
Thanks for getting me in trouble with the wife, boss.
Imma strive to use every one of those on Twitter, if Bobby blows Boca.
Well the real gag was (and I stop here to point out that a joke is always vastly more humorous when you get to explain it), he managed to insert almost every single German phrase us Englishters know, often without knowing we know it.
So it’s really making fun of us, not the Germans.
But if you got ‘cher ears boxed, then my work here is done!