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CJP6008 said:Wise words Bill.
Walker, many thanks for your kind words. On the subject of Mr Puts' origins, I suspect that he may be Dutch. His web site has a .nl suffix and I believe that to be the one for the Netherlands. Perhaps I should ask! His English is, like that of many of his countrymen, excellent and quite puts me to shame. I do not speak a word of Dutch and struggle badly with French and Spanish. I am, like many of my countrymen, monolingual! On the odd occasion that I have been lucky enough to visit the Netherlands I have found folks from all walks of life fluent in English. Taxi drivers, barmen, the guy selling chips (that's French fries if you are in the US) - all great English.
As for the pronunciation - I cannot help, although there is a thing at the following address that allows one to hear the names of Dutch master painters being said by a Dutchman - http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dpainters_wo/twenty_dutch_masterpieces.htm#How to - It might give a clue and is a good site for anyone interested in Dutch art. Incidentally, I understand that the Dutch pronunciation of van Gogh (and indeed the pronunciation he himself would have used) is a million miles from that used in the US. Well you learn a new thing...
Chris
dadsm3 said:The only German I know is the word for 'bra': holtzem und stoppemfromfloppen : 😀
Kevin said:Hi, Bill, there is something here called "Schadenfreude" - glee over someone else's misfortune. This happens when the person deserves it.
Hence we rejoice in some moments of Schadenfreude. He (Puts) deserves it because he made it that way by choice.
Kevin said:but also understand that he could have avoided the embarassment by having written his texts in a scientific manner instead of trying to transform himself into a literary genius.
This ding-dong term is "Wussa" in German, "putka" in Ukrainian and "kear" in Farsi. 😎I would like to say that I never knew "Putz" was a vulgar term for "Penis"