I knew that... it was for those who didn't know. - Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:22 PM Subject: Re: i told you'ses >> Isn't "Gruss "already an alias? >> >> - Matt > > You asked that question in 2005, I can't find the thread archived on > the HoF site but I had it in my GMail history.... > > >> Matthew wrote: >> So I've been interested in your name for a while, if it was real or not. >> I >> googled it and it's a German phrase meaning "God's Greeting". If I >> assume >> that it's not your real name, would I be right or wrong in doing so? >> > > Well there's a story there ... > > "grussgott" is a Bavarian form of hello, but it's a kind of a warm > familiar greeting that sort of translates to "with God, hello". In > Bavaria, it's the kind of thing you'd say when you answer the phone or > the door or go into a local pub that might know you. > > The rest of Germany, however, will laugh at you if you say this. > Others will peg you as a Bavarian, not a "real" German. In fact, many > people that "know German" won't even recognize this as German. > > Anybody that's not gifted with languages will sympathize with me: when > you talk to your friends you speak your native language and when you > speak to others you just blurt out whatever language you're most used > to speaking with foreigners (not that I speak much of any language > well). > > Well I was at a party and everyone was introducing themselves. As > usual I was half drunk and distracted because I was exchanging "war" > stories with a colleague. When my wife finally kicked me I just said, > "grussgott" and everyone thought that was my name (they found it odd > too). I just found it really funny and started answering to Gruss. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:242826 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
