The Ultimate Guide to Gratuitous German in Fanfiction

[karnimolly]

- And if you really want to do things right and impress everyone with your rad German skills: Write nouns with capital letters. Germans will love you forever.
(Basically: Just remember “Bruder” and “Fräulein” are capitalized ;)

One last thing: In case you were wondering - Klavier's German does not make much sense. He's a walking and talking cliché

Comments

[momemordrid]

Woo! Thanks so much for this! :DD

[karnimolly]

You're very welcome! :D

[nyula]

This is fantastic, and I'd give my left arm for there to be something like this for the Hetalia fandom.

SO MUCH MISUSED LANGUAGE augh...

[karnimolly]

Oh, with Hetalia it must be even worse! So many languages! o__o

[winhall]

I was very, very tempted to say just that.
Native speakers should write guides like this for all popular characters. This one is so perfect already, you'd only have to exchange the names and be done... XD

[sam_cc]

Yaaaaay, you finally posted this! <3

I'm very glad to have it, though will still probably force you to beta any fics involving Klavier that I write from now on. :P (Which won't be too bad since I hardly ever seem to write him.)

Very, very glad you included the "Krissi" note just because I've cried to you at least once about it in the past. Even without the German connection referring to Kristoph as "Krissi" just feels very wrong to me.

Sadly for the "Achtung baby!" thing it's pretty much part of Klavier's canon bad German so is unavoidable. WHICH DOES BRING UP THE VERY DEBATEABLE TOPIC OF IF KLAVIER IS ACTUALLY GERMAN OR IF HE'S FAKING IT BADLY. But I like to think that he is German but fakes it badly on purpose.

[karnimolly]

I'd be glad to help you with beta-ing your Klavier-fics ^^

"Achtung Baby!" still is something different as "Achtung!", and Klavier can say "Achtung Baby!" in lots of situations without it being misplaced. But as soon as he starts shouting "Achtung!" at Kristoph just in the middle of a conversation it starts getting weird ;]

[sam_cc]

Kristoph would have to educate him for acting retarded again. ;P

[shinkandom]

That was pretty interesting! I always thought Klavier using "Achtung" at all was funny, because I've seen it written on the yellow warning signs where the floor's just been mopped.

[karnimolly]

Yeah, it really means something along the lines of "Caution!", "Look out!" or "Attention!". But Klavier just loves referencing to rock-songs, so let him be XD

[sakurahanami]

...no equivalent for "cock"? Not "Schwanz"? Then again, I never ever read smut in German and maybe I am just missing something in the meaning of "Cock" or missunderstood the German word afetr all, you never use that word in exams, not even in Advanced German ClassesxD And then again, I didn't read through everything of your post just suddenly stopped at the smut paragraph coicidentally... because I am too lazy and should be studying biology anyway...

YESSSS, GO TEACH 'EM ALL!!! Though one has to note that not-one should overuse another language in a story and I think I hate The Tortilla Curtain for doing that. Spice it up but keep it at a minimum~

And no, I don't know why I still do strikethrough-abuse and don't write in German already. Maybe because I am terribly random?

[karnimolly]

But Schwanz sounds absolutely disgusting ;__;

[sakurahanami]

...that much is true, I agree with you xD Just forget I said anything.