A German boy I met many years ago filled me in: Bayerischer Mistwagen.
(translation: Crap Bavarian Car)
-- Mike
PS Maybe it's been discussed here already, but one BMW model makes the list of 50 cars in the book Crap Cars. It's a miniature coffee table book which I'm sure will bring back many memories.
2) AMG. Sounds only vaguely similar to an unrelated English phrase and certainly has no resonances in German.
DAS
Yeah: "Mach schnell".
Ah. Got it. Hmm, niiice.
On Thu, 11 May 2006 22:17:36 +0100, "Dori A Schmetterling" waffled on about something:
Well I'm only going on what my German friend told me!
Well I didn't honestly think it would mean anything like that in German! It's just amusing for a Brit to hear how the German's say it.
Guess it's still not as bad as trying to sell a Nova (either the Chevy version or the Vauxhall) to Spanish speakers. That's gotta be my fave.
Dodgy.
Just so we're clear, you said "Baum Vays".
A Baum ('baoom') is a tree. Bay Em Vay is probably the nearest phonetic rendering in English, albeit not very good.
It's just the letters. I am not aware of local versions of Beamer, Bimmer, Be-Em etc.
DAS
Indeed. And similarly a Vee-Doubleyou translates to Fow-Vay in German. Strange, nicht wahr?
Why (is that strange)...?...
DAS
For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling
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