2) Search me. I mean, the context is clear, he's not been paid the salary he thinks he deserves and other people are, but all French words I can think of are completely different from anything near "traat", and I can't think of an old school German word, either.
Darn. ;) I'll do a bit more research, and then I'll hit up my professor as a last resort. I was trying for something that begins with "Tract-", but I couldn't find anything semantically appropriate. I also tried a misspelling of "Tracht", but "uniform" doesn't fit the contexts.
3) 3) I vote for "bunt". As in "kunterbunt" . It's old school, but "hier geht es (kunter)bunt zu" = "It's wild/chaotic here".
Ah, one I didn't know! Sometimes I'm familiar with your suggestions, just in a passive way that means I don't think of them off the top of my head (see: Waffengang), but this one's new to me. Old-school is perfectly appropriate, so suggestion accepted!
4) ) It's bad/terrible grammar, and he's switching mid sentence;
THANK YOU! It was really obvious what he was trying to say, but I could not make the syntax work. Thank you for confirming the second half of the sentence doesn't match the first. One day, I'll have enough confidence to stop checking with you.
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Re: Anderson to Fredersdorf, pages 2-4, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-02-02 05:51 pm (UTC)Darn. ;) I'll do a bit more research, and then I'll hit up my professor as a last resort. I was trying for something that begins with "Tract-", but I couldn't find anything semantically appropriate. I also tried a misspelling of "Tracht", but "uniform" doesn't fit the contexts.
3) 3) I vote for "bunt". As in "kunterbunt" . It's old school, but "hier geht es (kunter)bunt zu" = "It's wild/chaotic here".
Ah, one I didn't know! Sometimes I'm familiar with your suggestions, just in a passive way that means I don't think of them off the top of my head (see: Waffengang), but this one's new to me. Old-school is perfectly appropriate, so suggestion accepted!
4) ) It's bad/terrible grammar, and he's switching mid sentence;
THANK YOU! It was really obvious what he was trying to say, but I could not make the syntax work. Thank you for confirming the second half of the sentence doesn't match the first. One day, I'll have enough confidence to stop checking with you.