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minus-squareBigBananaDealer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agowhen my dad was stationed in germany all he ever learned to say was “which way to the train station?”
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoSo he literally “only understands train station”. “Verstehe nur Bahnhof” is a common German expression to say that you have no idea what someone just said (because of jargon, or whatever), which supposedly comes from people that came to Germany and only new/understood “train station”.
when my dad was stationed in germany all he ever learned to say was “which way to the train station?”
So he literally “only understands train station”.
“Verstehe nur Bahnhof” is a common German expression to say that you have no idea what someone just said (because of jargon, or whatever), which supposedly comes from people that came to Germany and only new/understood “train station”.