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snubnose:
--- Quote from: Case on 08 Sep 2020, 03:22 ---IIRC, that wasn't uncommon until recently as a way to imply social hierarchy - eg. with bosses addressing their underlings. Look for some movies from the 50s and 60s, where some character tells their secretary "Frau Ursuala, bitte schreiben Sie".
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Hmm. Okay.
Yes conversations between bosses and underlings are strange. I have to know the first name of everybody at my company in order to talk to fellow workers, but the last name of everybody to talk to my boss about them.
Still, "Ursuala" isnt a first name I ever came across. Do you mean "Ursula" ?
And yes, admittedly I basically never watch german movies. General rule of thumb, they suck. I mean, there are a few exceptions, like the really old ones, such as "Metropolis", before the nazireich, when Germany still actually made important movies. And there is of course "Das Boot". And some other stuff, like Otto or Dieter Hallervorden, or some of the stuff of Til Schweiger.
Cant think of anything from the 1960s that I've ever watched though.
Case:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 08 Sep 2020, 06:38 ---Still, "Ursuala" isnt a first name I ever came across. Do you mean "Ursula" ?
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No, that'd be her younger sister who works as a receptionist at the Cape Diem Lodge in Cape Town, South Africa.
Tova:
I've decided that I prefer the term 'schmaltz' over 'saccharine' to refer to something that is excessively sentimental but that I also have a soft spot for in spite of that, purely because the latter refers to artificial sweetener (which is awful), whereas the former refers to chicken or goose fat (which is awesome*).
* In moderation as part of a balanced diet.
Torlek:
I've always interpreted "saccharine" as something artificially sentimental or having a forced sentimentality to the point of being cloying. Something "schmaltzy" is more...I guess honest is the best term. It still makes your roll your eyes, but it means well (like an overbearing aunt or grandmother).
flfederation:
At first I thought the CAPTCHA on this forum was asking "3 > 5?" rather than "5 + 3?" So my first try was "No", but obviously I figured it out.
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