That's from an East Berlin newspaper that I would call moderately left in Germany (radical left in the US I guess). Not quite sure I get the humor though.
I think people find humor in anglicizing rather than translating the German "wankt." Sounds a lot like "whacked" or other somewhat less polite colloquialisms.
That's from an East Berlin newspaper that I would call moderately left in Germany (radical left in the US I guess). Not quite sure I get the humor though.
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I think people find humor in anglicizing rather than translating the German "wankt." Sounds a lot like "whacked" or other somewhat less polite colloquialisms.
ReplyDeleteexactly. it just looks funny.
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