"There's something so camp about modern German"
Brits, does modern German sound camp to you? As in Stephen Fry's "mein Handy" camp?
Because I'm currently watching Horrible Histories, and the Second World War German characters no longer sound like they used to in the olden days, i.e. like Hitler. They sound like this:
As far back as 2000, The League of Gentlemen introduced Herrn Lipp:
Who, as fate would have it, was a choirmaster ("Oh come in my facefull!"):
So when did the switch happen? I am very pleased that we no longer sound like nazis to foreign ears, but the new accent confuses me.
(At least to American ears, Germans sound like Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman. So that's nice.)
Click to viewBecause I'm currently watching Horrible Histories, and the Second World War German characters no longer sound like they used to in the olden days, i.e. like Hitler. They sound like this:
As far back as 2000, The League of Gentlemen introduced Herrn Lipp:
Who, as fate would have it, was a choirmaster ("Oh come in my facefull!"):
So when did the switch happen? I am very pleased that we no longer sound like nazis to foreign ears, but the new accent confuses me.
(At least to American ears, Germans sound like Jeremy Irons or Alan Rickman. So that's nice.)