This is why Google Translate is a bad German advisor
Last night on Grimm... a serial rapist goat creature pheromonally seduced women and held them in cages for breeding purposes. Fuck that shit.
The goat creatures are Ziegevolk. This is not how it works. *sigh* The plural of Ziege is Ziegen. And you don't call a single creature a Volk.
Die Ziegevolk, die man chmal auch als Bluebeards, sind eine Ziege wie geschopf, das sah ich mit meinen eigenen Augen in Mnchen im winter 1905. Scheinen sie nicht gewalttatig. Die Gefahr kommt aus ihre instinktive Notwendigkeit der Rasse und scheinen sich nicht zu kummern. Merge uber die Qualitat.
Sie haben kurze Nitmer(?) wie eine Ziege.
instinktive Notwendigkeit der Rasse is supposed to be "instinctive need to breed". This is why German speakers don't use the word race when referring to people. Race and breed are the same word and that is just icky.
Merge uber die Qualitat. No idea what this is supposed to mean. Merge isn't even a German word.
Nitmer(?) I am just guessing at the letters here. It looks like three capitals letters in a row.
This is not correct German no matter what Google Translate tells you. Also, umlauts are not decorative, no really, they aren't.
From the official NBC site:
Reapers of the Grimms Usually troll-like creatures clothed in a black trench coat and equipped with a hard-sided briefcase, which holds a large scythe. The scythe carries the inscription "Erntemaschinen von dem Grimms," which translates to "Reapers of the Grimms."
Erntemaschinen von dem Grimms. Let's ignore the faulty grammar and concentrate on Erntemaschinen, okay. This is why you don't build a show around Google Translate. These are Erntemaschinen. The word they were looking for is Sensenmann. So if the dumbfaces behind this show had the good sense to hire a German adviser, they would know that the correct inscription would read "Sensenmann der Grimms".
ETA. Or as
extempore points out Grimms Sensenmann.
A Erntemaschine, a Blutbad, a Ziegevolk and a Mellischwuler walk into a Jägerbar...
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The goat creatures are Ziegevolk. This is not how it works. *sigh* The plural of Ziege is Ziegen. And you don't call a single creature a Volk.
Die Ziegevolk, die man chmal auch als Bluebeards, sind eine Ziege wie geschopf, das sah ich mit meinen eigenen Augen in Mnchen im winter 1905. Scheinen sie nicht gewalttatig. Die Gefahr kommt aus ihre instinktive Notwendigkeit der Rasse und scheinen sich nicht zu kummern. Merge uber die Qualitat.
Sie haben kurze Nitmer(?) wie eine Ziege.
instinktive Notwendigkeit der Rasse is supposed to be "instinctive need to breed". This is why German speakers don't use the word race when referring to people. Race and breed are the same word and that is just icky.
Merge uber die Qualitat. No idea what this is supposed to mean. Merge isn't even a German word.
Nitmer(?) I am just guessing at the letters here. It looks like three capitals letters in a row.
This is not correct German no matter what Google Translate tells you. Also, umlauts are not decorative, no really, they aren't.
From the official NBC site:
Reapers of the Grimms Usually troll-like creatures clothed in a black trench coat and equipped with a hard-sided briefcase, which holds a large scythe. The scythe carries the inscription "Erntemaschinen von dem Grimms," which translates to "Reapers of the Grimms."
Erntemaschinen von dem Grimms. Let's ignore the faulty grammar and concentrate on Erntemaschinen, okay. This is why you don't build a show around Google Translate. These are Erntemaschinen. The word they were looking for is Sensenmann. So if the dumbfaces behind this show had the good sense to hire a German adviser, they would know that the correct inscription would read "Sensenmann der Grimms".
ETA. Or as
extempore points out Grimms Sensenmann.
A Erntemaschine, a Blutbad, a Ziegevolk and a Mellischwuler walk into a Jägerbar...
Originally posted at Dreamwidth. | Comments so far:
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