Thy Hath Returnth!

[juhubert]

Just a friendly survival tip from your local Grammar Gestapo: It should be "Thou hast returned", not "Thy hath returnth".

maybe the easiest approach would be to think of reynolds as some sort of disc world Igor, as they have to lisp

aundraseits ged ma des eh sowos foi aum oasch voabei.

[Potjeh]

Is that supposed to be German with a lisp, or is it just Dutch?

[juhubert]

nah, german is right - well. sort off, its the idiom from my home valley, so most likely many germans could have some difficulties to understand it properly.

[Potjeh]

Must be some place where they still wear mullets and moustaches.

[Chakravanti]

I learned to speak german in the south. My gf had to keep it simple for me but I usually found a way to understand what she wanted . But anyway, I found myself having a lot of difficulty understanding her and anyone else who didn't keep it stupid for me. Then I went north to Mannheim and found I could have whole conversations with a guy and he was like yeah they slur a heavy accent in the south.

[juhubert]

Must be some place where they still wear mullets and moustaches.

tbh honest, i had to look after mullet. but yeah, there are some relicts left. but mostly, even if its a small valley with even smaller villages, when i came to vienna, i was quite surprised, how oldfashioned and non excessive parties were in this city and how prude most of the people in it

I learned to speak german in the south. My gf had to keep it simple for me but I usually found a way to understand what she wanted . But anyway, I found myself having a lot of difficulty understanding her and anyone else who didn't keep it stupid for me. Then I went north to Mannheim and found I could have whole conversations with a guy and he was like yeah they slur a heavy accent in the south.

treu. most people from germany, with the possible exception of bavaria have some problems to understand most austrian idioms.

as we use to say: we are seperated through the same language

[Lman8786]

does anyone know what village reynolds is in!

[niltrias]

Ah no, you misunderstand.
I was not referring to the phrase existing as an idiom in Old English. The context is as follows: I tried to formulate "I have returned" in O.E. and finished with the remark that I couldn't do it idiomatically correctly; then Jackard told that I must; and I tried to respond that I couldn't do it.
I had the smoldering suspicion that that was the case for ために, but I believe myself to have read できる in kanji many times over. Am I just imagining things?

Ah, sorry, my bad. I had just come back from a bar, after all.
You were much closer than I thought at first, actually, but the devil is in the details. It is kind of like the difference between:
"This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God." vs. "This is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God."
Or
"I walked and talked with him 30 minutes after he died." vs. "I walked and talked with him. Thirty minutes after, he died."

As far as the kanji goes, it is much more of an art than a science, but generally speaking, as the formality increases, the use of kanji for modals and particles also increases. It is hard to explain precisely how to use them correctly, but using 為に,　出来る, and　こら together has the issue (very roughly) of the following:
"Ladies and gentlemen, cop a squat."
It is hard to convey the feeling correctly in English, tho.

[loftar]

[...]using 為に,　出来る, and　こら together has the issue (very roughly) of the following:
"Ladies and gentlemen, cop a squat."

To be fair, though, I was kind of aiming at that exact effect, so as to add a slightly comical aftertouch along with a stiffening of the voice, so to speak.

That said, I'm still kind of curious why I failed so badly otherwise. "出来ない物は出来ない" is an idiom, right? I'm not just imagining things, right?

[Reynolds]

Wow, what a lovely welcome back party!