And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, October 7, 2024
“The House of Therese Krones in Döbling in Wien”, circa.1912-1914 Oskar Moll
One of the entertaining things about Americans is your extraordinary ability to confuse Wein (wine) and Wien (Vienna). Indeed your confusion between "ie" and "ei" and their mispronunciation and ultimately their spelling is wildly funny and/or weird.
Mary Steenburgen and Bruce Springsteen, tee hee.
I think you adopted it from the British habit of mispronouncing every foreign word in a effort to confuse your enemies.
We Americans are indeed very confusing. In fact, we often confuse ourselves! Thanks for pointing that out, corrected. And I've spent some very pleasant time in "Wien" drinking wein, so there's no excuse for the mistake.
One of the entertaining things about Americans is your extraordinary ability to confuse Wein (wine) and Wien (Vienna). Indeed your confusion between "ie" and "ei" and their mispronunciation and ultimately their spelling is wildly funny and/or weird.
ReplyDeleteMary Steenburgen and Bruce Springsteen, tee hee.
I think you adopted it from the British habit of mispronouncing every foreign word in a effort to confuse your enemies.
We Americans are indeed very confusing. In fact, we often confuse ourselves! Thanks for pointing that out, corrected. And I've spent some very pleasant time in "Wien" drinking wein, so there's no excuse for the mistake.
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