05-30-2003, 10:36 AM | #11 |
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Falco? geez, I thought he only did that one song....Rock Me Ammadeus back when the Mozart movie was all the rage. |
05-30-2003, 10:40 AM | #12 |
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OOps, wrong language.
Anyway I was only telling that most Austrians make a big deal about we were in NO way involved in WWII atrocities, when in fact a significant amount of SS-officers and concentration camp commanders have been Austrian. Of course it was not Austria's (the country's) fault. The country is just mountains, plains, woods and rivers. It was the people's fault and they didn't become completely different persons in 1945 when they suddenly were Austrians again and no longer Germans.
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Falco did a lot of songs. Most of them very popular in Austria and Germany. But "Amadeus" was the only Austrian song ever to be No.1 on the US Billboard.
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Habsburg with a "b"
Although they made Austria their home to rule the Holy Roman empire of Germany from Vienna for centuries the Habsburg family originated in Switzerland. Hab = shortened Habicht - German for Hawk s = "Genitive" burg = castle, stronghold They came from a castle named "Habichtsburg" (Hawk's Castle) which later shortened to Habsburg. [ 05-30-2003, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Faceman ]
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"Habsburg" is also a possible spelling in English, though. And I can't quite see why anyone should change the spelling of a name except if there was a problem with the lacking availability of some special letters as in "Schrödinger". So I can understand "Schrodinger" but not "Schrotinger".
Is it me or is this threat becoming a little bit like the "über"-discussion? [ 05-30-2003, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: Faceman ]
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I couldn't agree more: changing the spelling of proper names seems indeed odd, but is on the other hand rather common for names of longstanding importance, just think of examples like "Bourbonen" or all the first names of foreign rulers from history that are usually referred to by the German versions of their names (e.g. "Heinrich der achte" for Henry the eighth).
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[img]graemlins/jumpclap.gif[/img] I'm Henry the Eight I am
Henry the Eight I am, I am I got married to a widow next door She's been married seve times before ... [img]graemlins/jumpclap.gif[/img] *Taking the topic somewhere completely else* [img]graemlins/treadmill.gif[/img]
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