Comments on: Like a Bottle Empty http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/like-a-bottle-empty.html News from The German Bundesliga Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-147 Elizabeth Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:09:21 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/bayern-munich/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-147 Thanks so much for phases and explanations! I really want my German to be more natural sounding (not like I'm just talking out of a textbook) and I'll definitely remember these - thanks!! Thanks so much for phases and explanations! I really want my German to be more natural sounding (not like I’m just talking out of a textbook) and I’ll definitely remember these – thanks!!

]]> By: Jan http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-146 Jan Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:55:13 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/bayern-munich/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-146 Bayern had lost 1-0 against Schalke two days earlier and it was a big blow to their championship campaign. Trapattoni won the Bundesliga title in the previous year but wasn't happy with his current squad. He still won the DFB Cup that year though. I think this is also the FC Hollywood era. Bayern got that nickname because it had so many players that were drama queens who constantly made headlines so it's understandable that you can get a bit worked up at times. And this mix of passion and broken grammar just had a lot of comedic value but as the post points out also generated phrases that were so unique and of the "you can't make those up" type that they were instantly adopted into our language use. And he received so much sympathy and approval for what he said and did from everybody fterwards. It wasn't like "oh, let's make fun of that guy who can't speak german properly". The German social democrats party even successfully campaigned against then chancelor Helmut Kohl by using Trapattonis famous last words "I have done. / Ich habe fertig." on billboards together with a photo of Kohl. And today Trapattoni still has advertising deals for e.g. table water where he has to spin his words and say "not like a bottle empty". anyway, I guess it's all something that can be best appreciated when you actually speak german, though I just came across a subtitled version on youtube and had to post it.:-) Bayern had lost 1-0 against Schalke two days earlier and it was a big blow to their championship campaign. Trapattoni won the Bundesliga title in the previous year but wasn’t happy with his current squad. He still won the DFB Cup that year though. I think this is also the FC Hollywood era. Bayern got that nickname because it had so many players that were drama queens who constantly made headlines so it’s understandable that you can get a bit worked up at times.

And this mix of passion and broken grammar just had a lot of comedic value but as the post points out also generated phrases that were so unique and of the “you can’t make those up” type that they were instantly adopted into our language use. And he received so much sympathy and approval for what he said and did from everybody fterwards. It wasn’t like “oh, let’s make fun of that guy who can’t speak german properly”. The German social democrats party even successfully campaigned against then chancelor Helmut Kohl by using Trapattonis famous last words “I have done. / Ich habe fertig.” on billboards together with a photo of Kohl. And today Trapattoni still has advertising deals for e.g. table water where he has to spin his words and say “not like a bottle empty”. anyway, I guess it’s all something that can be best appreciated when you actually speak german, though I just came across a subtitled version on youtube and had to post it.:-)

]]> By: Juliet http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-145 Juliet Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:06:30 +0000 http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/1-bundesliga/bayern-munich/like-a-bottle-empty.html#comment-145 Wow! Such fire, such passion, such... bad German (according to the subtitles). Can you add a little context here, Jan? What was he so worked up about? Wow! Such fire, such passion, such… bad German (according to the subtitles). Can you add a little context here, Jan? What was he so worked up about?

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