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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2006 15:15 
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Und Triple Liebchen.. ist not the driver this time..
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This ist another very sad story und the Mama ist warning of the dangers after her 20 year old son dies on Princess Park Way in Manchester - he was flung 40 ft in air und died from head injuries 5 days later.

Three witnesses describe how they saw the young man jogging across road - dodging traffic before he was knocked down. He was chatting on his Handy to the girlfriend he was jogging to see.

The driver who hit him said "he appeared from nowhere. He was on his phone - he must have been oblivious to all traffic."

Oddly the driver und his passenger apparently could not remember which of them was behind the wheel at the time the 20 year collided with their car und they were done for "police obstruction"

The car owner excused her behaviour by saying that she was not sure if the driver (Simon) was named as insured to drive on her policy so she said she was driving. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

The coroner recorded "accidental death" - car was NOT speeding either.

The 20 year old's distraught mother (who had lost her older son in a stabbing incident some 9 years previously) warned how Handy phones distract people from dangers on the streets.

grieving Mama wrote:

Mobile phones can distract you. They take away your concentration. My Mark was a nice lad.. placid and social. It's the second time we have been through this und it ist terribly hard for the family to take.


We know .. only too well :cry: Und I think ist very brave of this lady to make this statement. She has condolences.. und sympathy.

But this "Handy" thing.. I cannot understand this craze. Ist a telephone ...that's all. :roll:

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PostPosted: Sun May 28, 2006 08:12 
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WildCat wrote:
But this "Handy" thing.. I cannot understand this craze. Ist a telephone ...that's all. :roll:

Which German speakers call a 'handy', and English speakers call a 'mobile'.
Wenn Ich auf Deutsch schreibe, dann schreibe Ich 'Handy', auf Englisch aber, dann wäre es 'mobile', vielleicht können Sie ähnlich machen? Bitte sehr?


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Einion Yrth wrote:
WildCat wrote:
But this "Handy" thing.. I cannot understand this craze. Ist a telephone ...that's all. :roll:

Which German speakers call a 'handy', and English speakers call a 'mobile'.
Wenn Ich auf Deutsch schreibe, dann schreibe Ich 'Handy', auf Englisch aber, dann wäre es 'mobile', vielleicht können Sie ähnlich machen? Bitte sehr?


She always calls them a "Handy" :roll:

A "mobile" to Wildy means that twee thing over our youngest's cot. Or as a German adjective - she thinks "lively" or "sprightly" or "mobile in a military sense.

German fine - I think - only they spell "ich" with a small letter and give capitals to all nouns.! Wildy says a couple of little word order matters and a missed "t" in the conditional of one verb .. but she's impressed :clap: She's always pleased to see someone in England proving we can do it! Get by in "foreign"!

I found learning it initially easy - then difficult when I discovered all the odd word order and which case to use with a preposition as it "changes the meaning" - then once I'd sorted all that out in me 'ead - it got a bit easier to understand her. :wink: Had to learn it... she speaks to all our kids in her own language and I need to know what she's said. :roll:

IG of course speaks it fine as he spent most of his hols as a lad visiting his relatives.

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She always calls them a "Handy"

Add to that a little of the rather nice Spätlase I enjoyed last evening, you get Handy Hock :bunker:


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Roger wrote:
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She always calls them a "Handy"

Add to that a little of the rather nice Spätlase I enjoyed last evening, you get Handy Hock :bunker:


:rotfl: Und I do enjoy Spätlase. There ist one really nice one

"Deidesheimer Pfaffenberg" ist a really fruity und sassy little number. Quite smooth little Rheinwein number.

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