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Matthew Fisher (X)
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Almanca > İngilizce
Jan 29, 2014

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This one made me laugh out loud. Can you top this?

"Die Entität in der DB wurde folgendermaßen upgedated."
 
Daniel Bird
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Birleşik Krallık
Local time: 22:50
Almanca > İngilizce
Nein, das kann ich nicht toppen Jan 29, 2014


DB
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
Fransa
Local time: 23:50
Fransızca > İngilizce
Franglais surely Jan 29, 2014

The French like to be the exception.

They fight hard to preserve their language,

And that entails calling a mixture of French and English "franglais".
 
Claire Bourneton-Gerlach
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Almanya
Local time: 23:50
Almanca > Fransızca
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Getoppt! Jan 29, 2014

de>en wrote:


"Die Entität in der DB wurde folgendermaßen upgedated."


Wo hast Du das denn downgeloaded? Oder doch vielleicht geforwardet bekommen?
 
oxygen4u
oxygen4u
Portekiz
Local time: 22:50
İngilizce > Portekizce
+ ...
@Claire Jan 29, 2014

"Wo hast Du das denn downgeloaded? Oder doch vielleicht geforwardet bekommen?"

I thought no one could come up with something similar to "upgadated". Well done!
 
Matthew Fisher (X)
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Local time: 17:50
Almanca > İngilizce
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Franglais, of course! Jan 30, 2014

(slaps forehead)

Those tenacious French. Of course.

Oh my, "upgedated" appears in both dict.cc and linguee.de. That's just too horrible. Don't look.

But I must give top honors to downgeloaded.

Academics may drone on about the relative merits of downgeloadet vs. gedownloadet... weil es um die Bildung des Partizips II geht ...
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(slaps forehead)

Those tenacious French. Of course.

Oh my, "upgedated" appears in both dict.cc and linguee.de. That's just too horrible. Don't look.

But I must give top honors to downgeloaded.

Academics may drone on about the relative merits of downgeloadet vs. gedownloadet... weil es um die Bildung des Partizips II geht ...

http://www.grammatikfragen.de/showthread.php?58-quot-gedownloadet-quot-vs.-quot-downgeloaded-quot

... but the true connoisseur knows the proper form to be "downgeloaded"! ▲ Collapse
 


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