Ze Germäns know zeir stuff
Jun. 5th, 2011 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tj_teejayApparently, Jeff Eastin doesn't. Warning, random rant to follow.
This is one of my pet peeves. I hate it when I watch non-German movies/TV shows and they feature something that is German and also total bogus. So I watched the feature commentary for episode 'Under the Radar' this morning. And for those of you who read my post about that episode when it originally aired, you'll know that I already had beef with the fact that they totally messed up the German from the U-boat. But what really grated my cheese is that they talked about the Nazi dynamite sticks in the commentary, and Jeff said the prop guys did an amazing job and apparenty also got the German right.
Uhm... *harrumphs loudly, then shakes Jeff by the collar* NO YOU EFFIN' DIDN'T!!!!!
I mean, I should know, right? Unless the German spoken and spelled by the Nazis during World War II differs from the German that's my native language and which I've studied in school for some 13 years. (Can you say un-frickin'-likely?) So, uhm, dear Mr. Eastin. I have a lot of respect for you and your TV drama writing skills, but you or your prop guys don't know the first thing about German spelling. And please don't make an estimated few million viewers believe otherwise.
Oh, and here's another thing along the same lines. I can't remember in what episode it was now, but I vaguely remember a snippet of a conversation where they're talking about when Kennedy said, "Ich bin ein Berliner," that he actually said he was a sausage. Was that even on White Collar, or am I mixing this up with another show? At any rate, that's also not correct. A Berliner is more like a donut. It's a deep-fried, sweet bakery product that usually has sugar on the outside and a pocket of jam on the inside. Even wikipedia knows that. So, yeah, I'd definitely call that a fubar.
What it comes down to is that TV writers and/or prop people don't always do their research. I guess I need to accept that. Doesn't mean it's not gonna keep annoying me when it happens. I mean, I'd even beta-read this stuff for them for free! *sigh* So, yeah. I rest my case. Next?
This is one of my pet peeves. I hate it when I watch non-German movies/TV shows and they feature something that is German and also total bogus. So I watched the feature commentary for episode 'Under the Radar' this morning. And for those of you who read my post about that episode when it originally aired, you'll know that I already had beef with the fact that they totally messed up the German from the U-boat. But what really grated my cheese is that they talked about the Nazi dynamite sticks in the commentary, and Jeff said the prop guys did an amazing job and apparenty also got the German right.
Uhm... *harrumphs loudly, then shakes Jeff by the collar* NO YOU EFFIN' DIDN'T!!!!!
I mean, I should know, right? Unless the German spoken and spelled by the Nazis during World War II differs from the German that's my native language and which I've studied in school for some 13 years. (Can you say un-frickin'-likely?) So, uhm, dear Mr. Eastin. I have a lot of respect for you and your TV drama writing skills, but you or your prop guys don't know the first thing about German spelling. And please don't make an estimated few million viewers believe otherwise.
Oh, and here's another thing along the same lines. I can't remember in what episode it was now, but I vaguely remember a snippet of a conversation where they're talking about when Kennedy said, "Ich bin ein Berliner," that he actually said he was a sausage. Was that even on White Collar, or am I mixing this up with another show? At any rate, that's also not correct. A Berliner is more like a donut. It's a deep-fried, sweet bakery product that usually has sugar on the outside and a pocket of jam on the inside. Even wikipedia knows that. So, yeah, I'd definitely call that a fubar.
What it comes down to is that TV writers and/or prop people don't always do their research. I guess I need to accept that. Doesn't mean it's not gonna keep annoying me when it happens. I mean, I'd even beta-read this stuff for them for free! *sigh* So, yeah. I rest my case. Next?
