Pulp German

[Doomhippie]

I recently discovered that when playing pulp style games I tend to use the typical pulp German a lot (you know, wrong plural endings etc). Now being a native speaker of German trying to sound like an American speaking German that struck me as kind of odd (though it's just so much fun...).

I was wondering if any of the other Huns here experienced the same? Just being curious.

[Westfalia Chris]

I recently discovered that when playing pulp style games I tend to use the typical pulp German a lot (you know, wrong plural endings etc). Now being a native speaker of German trying to sound like an American speaking German that struck me as kind of odd (though it's just so much fun...).

I was wondering if any of the other Huns here experienced the same? Just being curious.

Vhy, yez ve do! All ze time, not only vhen playing ze Schundspiele! ::

It´z vhat zeparates us from ze GW crowd. Ve are verrückte Schweinhunden and not afraid to zhow it, jawoll!

:mrgreen:

[Ironworker]

I've always said the only things I still have from my german classes is the ability to do a good and cheesy accent with a few German words thrown in.  

I've always wondered how you guys feel about being constantly cast as the villians in Pulp style games and stories.  One of these days I'd like to run a short either Victorian or WWI pulp adventure serial with German protaganist and the traditionally "good guy" British, French, and Americans as the antagonist.

[Driscoles]

I think my english is flippin` brilliant !
I could probably outplay Donald Sutherland as Henry Faber !
 ::
Cheers
Björn

[Doomhippie]

I've always said the only things I still have from my german classes is the ability to do a good and cheesy accent with a few German words thrown in.  

I've always wondered how you guys feel about being constantly cast as the villians in Pulp style games and stories.  One of these days I'd like to run a short either Victorian or WWI pulp adventure serial with German protaganist and the traditionally "good guy" British, French, and Americans as the antagonist.

Well, I must admit as a kid I wasn't too happy about that. Later I convinced myself that this was some kind of showing grudgingly respect. Okay and now I just think it's hillarious. After all, it's a fantastic world where good guys always win, woman are always beautiful and having a hangover is another way of looking cool. And let's face it: the Nazis really have everything you could ever expect of an evil villain.

[PeteMurray]

I think it's wonderful - I can't tell you how delightful I found Doomhippie's post. It means that a way of telling stories is somehow more compelling than hanging up on historical grudges and on the sins of our fathers. It's not that we've laughed these things away or that we're making light of what happened in history - everyone here knows the darkest history of war. Despite what happened sixty years ago, we recognize enough of the humanity in each other to be able to share these pulp tropes as shortcuts to ideas, as metaphors or symbols. We use them to move out of the blood of real history into worlds of heart-pounding action - the idealized war of propaganda. And we know it's not real! We know that this stuff isn't history! And we could easily be arguing shame and guilt and atrocity, but we aren't.

I suppose someone of delicate sensibilities would say that this is obscene, but it isn't. This sort of laughter heals in ways that cries for forgiveness between former enemies do not. Long Live Pulp.

[Glitzer]

I recently discovered that when playing pulp style games I tend to use the typical pulp German a lot (you know, wrong plural endings etc). Now being a native speaker of German trying to sound like an American speaking German that struck me as kind of odd (though it's just so much fun...).

I was wondering if any of the other Huns here experienced the same? Just being curious.

I never could speak pulp German, tried it a few times but always failed. On the other hand, ever since I had the pleasure of listening to an Austrain forrester speaking a (grammaticaly perfect but non the less) very accented English, I find myself faking his accent from time to time...

"Vor masölf, ahm nod ivn awähr wen id häpnss..."  :wink:

[Captain Blood]

Well I think it's worth noting that in the past 10 years or so, in many Hollywood movies, the villain is now as often as not a Brit!

Mel Gibson has a lot to answer for!  :x

 :wink:

[twrchtrwyth]

Not exactly on topic but a friend of mine told me about an interview he had seen with a German paratrooper who had been captured and sent to the North East of England as a prisoner. He met a girl there and never went home, and picked up a perfect Geordie accent. You'd never know he was German when he apparently, excepty for his occasional use of German words, "I was a Fallschirmjäger", for instance.

[Plynkes]

Yeah, Brits are the new Nazis! We have hundreds of years experience of hitting people over the back of the head with a spade when they're not looking and stealing their country.


Someone was on another website the other day bitching about how the Yanks were the baddies in some movie or other they had seen (they found it inexplicable how Americans could ever be seen as baddies: I think it was some thing about a Russian sub, I forget). Now he knows how Brits and Germans (and Russians and anybody vaguely Islamic) feel. Suffer!

[Plynkes]

Twrchtrwyth, that chap has been talked about here before. The "Geordie Fallschirmjäger" must have been on quite a few documentaries, as a few LAfers have seen him.

He was at Cassino, I seem to recall. It is odd to hear a German who has TOTALLY lost his German accent. It is very weird to hear him speak of being a German soldier in such a thick English accent.


There was a former German POW who lived in my village who never went home, too. It was relatively common.

[Hammers]

I think it's wonderful - I can't tell you how delightful I found Doomhippie's post. It means that a way of telling stories is somehow more compelling than hanging up on historical grudges and on the sins of our fathers. It's not that we've laughed these things away or that we're making light of what happened in history - everyone here knows the darkest history of war. Despite what happened sixty years ago, we recognize enough of the humanity in each other to be able to share these pulp tropes as shortcuts to ideas, as metaphors or symbols. We use them to move out of the blood of real history into worlds of heart-pounding action - the idealized war of propaganda. And we know it's not real! We know that this stuff isn't history! And we could easily be arguing shame and guilt and atrocity, but we aren't.

I suppose someone of delicate sensibilities would say that this is obscene, but it isn't. This sort of laughter heals in ways that cries for forgiveness between former enemies do not. Long Live Pulp.

Well put and seconded.

[Ironworker]

Twrchtrwyth, that chap has been talked about here before. The "Geordie Fallschirmjäger" must have been on quite a few documentaries, as a few LAfers have seen him.

He was at Cassino, I seem to recall. It is odd to hear a German who has TOTALLY lost his German accent. It is very weird to hear him speak of being a German soldier in such a thick English accent.


There was a former German POW who lived in my village who never went home, too. It was relatively common.

I think I've seen that guy as well.  Can't remember exactly where but I remember some guy with a heavy english accent talking about serving with the german army.  It seemed really odd at the time.

[Darkoath]

I think it's wonderful - I can't tell you how delightful I found Doomhippie's post. It means that a way of telling stories is somehow more compelling than hanging up on historical grudges and on the sins of our fathers. It's not that we've laughed these things away or that we're making light of what happened in history - everyone here knows the darkest history of war. Despite what happened sixty years ago, we recognize enough of the humanity in each other to be able to share these pulp tropes as shortcuts to ideas, as metaphors or symbols. We use them to move out of the blood of real history into worlds of heart-pounding action - the idealized war of propaganda. And we know it's not real! We know that this stuff isn't history! And we could easily be arguing shame and guilt and atrocity, but we aren't.

I suppose someone of delicate sensibilities would say that this is obscene, but it isn't. This sort of laughter heals in ways that cries for forgiveness between former enemies do not. Long Live Pulp.

PeteMurray you quite often surprise and move me with your words...

[Florin]

well, i don't fall into "german"-english, when i triy to speak like an "evil" german, but i'm always tempted to use a kind of military-prussian accent (might be a result of me coming from bavaria), wich spoken by me sounds odd enough, be shure.

concerning the germans always beeing the bad guys in pulp settings, i really don't have a problem with that at all. it just doesn't feel offensive for me when whilhelmenian or nazi-guys are the villians in a story, because the germany i live in is not the one where the notorious bad guys are cast from. and in the end i don't identify myself enough with "my" country to be offended by stereotypes of it.
most time i find it great to make fun of people and times that weren't funny at all. and i always think, that there would not be anything for most really evil guys in history - especially the nazis - which they would hate more than being some stereotype/ funny or stupid figure in a game or story. these guys always wanted to be taken very serious...