No more Fru00e4ulein - BIG GOOF
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westley34 — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 10:59 PM)
What is the big deal? This is a complete work of fiction is it not? They can use whatever words, terminologies, etc that they want to. Of course they should keep it as real as possible by adhering to commonly used words, but this isn't a German film, its an English film. I would call this an extremely minor goof, and maybe even an intentional goof if the script writer just liked the word Fraulein.
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LoriBug77 — 9 years ago(December 05, 2016 10:42 AM)
Fascinating thread. No, really!
I wonder what other foreign words we non-foreigners use incorrectly. I'd love to hear some out of date "Americanisms" in non-American films, for example. I get a kick out of trying to figure out which actors are "Brits using an American accent". I'm not expert at it but it's fun to try.
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katjoeus — 9 years ago(December 09, 2016 07:34 PM)
Sorry, but it is utter BS to say that the word is "verboten" in German - how on earth did you come up with that?? The fact is that it is no longer used very much, or rather it is not used at all by anyone over the age of 50 or so, I'd say. It just has an old-fashioned ring to it. For me, one of the issues has always been the fact that there is no belittling male equivalent in German - that always irked me. Plus, when applied to older women, it pretty much meant "old spinster" - because you would use it for a woman who is not married, and nowadays we just feel that that is nobody's business. Which is also why Ms was introduced into the English language, so that there wouldn't be that awkwardness of not knowing whether to address a woman as Miss or Mrs.
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cococlown — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 03:43 AM)
Im also German and its usually older people that address young girls/women as "Frulein". Happened to me already too and it didnt bother me at all.
If a younger person would address an older woman as Frulein it would be somewhat inapproriate and a polite native German speaker wouldnt do that but as a non native speaker it will certainly be forgiven.
In real life the female clerk would have taken him down a peg or two, and sued him for sexual harassment after having slapped him silly.
Im having a hard time believing that youre actually a German speaker or have any idea about the German speaking world. What you wrote is Bull****!