tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post2198822984008994764..comments2024-02-10T20:49:20.762-05:00Comments on bjkeefe: I give it two dotsbjkeefehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-86234391603455732112010-07-25T16:52:52.133-04:002010-07-25T16:52:52.133-04:00Didn't think you were criticizing, but thanks ...Didn't think you were criticizing, but thanks for saying so.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-82365341246610284202010-07-25T15:28:57.446-04:002010-07-25T15:28:57.446-04:00Johann Wolfgang von Goethe actually spelled his la...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe actually spelled his last name with an umlaut rather than an 'e". Unfortunately that has often led English speakers to pronounce it " go-eeth-tha.<br /><br />I wasn't criticizing your use of the phrase, just a sidebar that many people misinterpret the meaning to imply that Germans think they are better than any other country or should rule others.TCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-63011696591054789032010-07-24T16:18:39.031-04:002010-07-24T16:18:39.031-04:00Thanks for the part about the ue option to the ü. ...Thanks for the part about the <em>ue</em> option to the <em>ü</em>. I did not know that.<br /><br />I think I have a rough sense of <em>über alles</em>, though. <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/forum/showthread.php?p=171509&highlight=%FCber+alles#post171509" rel="nofollow">Here is the context</a> in which I most recently used it, if you would like to judge.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-23215188089642779422010-07-24T14:24:41.213-04:002010-07-24T14:24:41.213-04:00BTW "Deutschland ueber Alles" is often m...BTW "Deutschland ueber Alles" is often misunderstood. It really means roughly "Germany we love you most of all" not that Germany is better than everyone else or is above every other country. Germany is above everything else in our hearts. As with "America the Beautiful"TCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662517.post-60014044099639553272010-07-24T14:15:09.633-04:002010-07-24T14:15:09.633-04:00FYI in German the alternate spelling for a vowel w...FYI in German the alternate spelling for a vowel with an umlaut is to put an "e" behind the vowel. Thus Deutschland ueber Alles is correct spelling and pronounced the same way as the umlauted vowel.TCnoreply@blogger.com