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Post by Rachel on Dec 31, 2010 5:46:16 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Photax. Hope you have a great day.
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Post by nikonbob on Dec 31, 2010 7:29:40 GMT -5
MIK
Hope you have a Happy Birthday and enjoy yourself.
Bob
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Post by SidW on Dec 31, 2010 8:32:49 GMT -5
Best wishes Mik
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Post by mickeyobe on Dec 31, 2010 8:52:47 GMT -5
MIK, Have a very HAPPY  BIRTHDAY and many more. Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Dec 31, 2010 9:07:16 GMT -5
MIK,
There seem to be plenty of ways to wish "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" in German - have I chosen the correct one for Austria?
Ois Guade zum Geburdsdog!
Whether I have or not, have a happy birthday.
Dave.
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Post by olroy2044 on Dec 31, 2010 10:34:38 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, MIK! What a treat to have you in the group!
Happy collecting!!!
Roy
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Post by Randy on Dec 31, 2010 12:22:54 GMT -5
Happy Birthday!
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Post by vintageslrs on Dec 31, 2010 13:57:49 GMT -5
Hoping you enjoy the best of days!
Happy Birthday!
Bob
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Post by photax on Jan 1, 2011 9:21:02 GMT -5
Thank you very much for your wishes. Another year gone, one year older. I always have lots of fireworks on my birthday ;D. Had a great party with some friends yesterday and just arrived at home. Now I need to sleep a bit…
MIK
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Post by photax on Jan 2, 2011 10:18:55 GMT -5
Dave, I had forgotten to ask you from where did you got this perfect Viennese dialect sentence ? ;D
MIK
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Post by daveh on Jan 2, 2011 17:44:30 GMT -5
It's amazing what is on the internet. I googled "Happy birthday German trnaslation" (or something similar). One page had a complete list of languages from around the world. Most languages just had a single entry, but German being German had a dozen or so variations on the theme. It listed where each was used.
MIK, I don't expect you will know the old American comedy TV series "Burns and Allen". There was a scene in that where he has enquired of someone who spoke French how a pay a wonderful compliment. He tried it out on the pretty French girl, and didn't get the response he expected. The phrase he was given was, when translated, something like "you smell like the garbage can" and not "you look beautiful". (Note this is done from memory - I probably haven't seen that episode for almost 50 years.)
I always worry when I look something like "happy birthday" up that someone will have worked a flanker on the unsuspecting reader, that is me. (Working a flanker means to trick or swindle,)
Just had a look and. as always, can't find the website which had all the German variations.
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