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Old 05-10-2008, 01:45 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by IceHand View Post
I see. It must be a local thing, because I don't even know the word "vergnatz". Thanks for the explanation though.
heh... and here i thought it was at least a compound of legitimate words... my friend is from Dresden, what region are you from ? if Germany is anything like france, regional slang can be so different from one place to another as to be virtually incomprehensible. and i'm not even talking about dialects... 50 years ago, a grandpa from one village wouldn't understand a grandpa from the next village over.
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