okr said:
I didn't even know what a twig is until now. I have a new Eselsbrücke thanks to this test: The Royal Game (Schachnovelle) was written by Stephen Twig. |
I have no use for Eselsbrücken :) I dont know how to use them at all haha.
I do it in a different way like this:
Learning English/German/Dutch is pretty easy when you know what you have to look for. This is usually something NO fucking teacher ever tells you. All they do is tell you to learn the vocabulary.....
You should know that centuries ago German was closer to English/Dutch than it is now. The language changed and in that process the "old german" T changed to Z/S. Dutch is inbetween German and English the vocabualry is more like German but it never made the shift from T to Z like German did. German and Dutch were the same language before changes like the T->Z happened.
E.g
Dutch:
Tijd (a German would pronounce it like Teit) = Zeit
Toekomst would be something like Zukommt (kommt auf mich zu) German "kunft" like in "Ankuft" is related to the verb KOMMEN.
Therefore Toekoemst = Zukunft.
English:
to = zu
Twig would therefore be something like Zwig in German and is pretty close to Zweig.
Therefore Twig = Zweig (this is how I learned it during the IQ test xD)
Two = Zwo/Zwei
Shit = Schiss/Scheiss
Cat = KatZe
There are some other "rules" like alot of words with V/F in English are pretty much the same with B in German,
Silver = Silber
Wife = Weib
Driver = Treiber (This also has something I call the D->T shift which is yet another "rule".)
Seven = Sieben
have = hab
Give = gib
etc etc.
Another example of the D->T shift:
Drink = Trinken
Dance = Tanzen
Do = Tun
