1 post tagged “du hast”
The best laid plans of mice and men etc etc - I had a whole post written in my head and then the overdue sproggling of two of my dearest friends chose today to log in to the great MMORPG that we call "Life'.
However, since Adam, the Stamen bearing member of the Dynamic Duo, has long been my conduit to purest RAWK(!) I felt compelled to dump a little bit of metal magic and mayhem.
So please raise your hands unto the symbol of the horns and prepare to rock out. With your cock out if you are so equipped and such inclined.
The funny thing about Rammstein, and this song in particular, is that they're actually quite clever plays on words - in this case on the German wedding vows - "Du hast" meaning "You have" and "Willst du, bis der Tod euch scheidet, treu ihr sein für alle Tage?" meaning "Will you be faithful until Death parts you?" (lit. "for all days" but I'm riffing off the English wedding vows here).
However "Du hast" sounds similar to "du haßt" (or "du hasst" if you like to circumscribe) which means "you hate" and "Willst du, bis zum Tod, der scheide" ("Will you, until Death parts") can sound like "Tod der Scheide" lit. "Till Death of the scabbard". Except that "Scheide" is slang for vagina and is, coincidentally, my second favourite piece of German slang after "Hausdrachen", meaning "Parents", which I learnt from a dictionary of German slang which illustrated it thusly
"Oft denk ich, 's war total turbogeil, meine Hausdrachen zu killen"
"Sometimes I think it would be mind-blowing to kill my parents"
which is, err, pretty extreme. But also reminds me that turbogeil is my third favourite German slang word.
Anyway, if your German is excellent, or if you have access to Wikipedia, you can spend a happy 20 minutes revelling in all the levels of hidden meaning and linguistic trickery.
Also, If you're interested in this sort of Malarkey then British Comedian Stewart Lee (of "Fist of Fun" and "This morning with Richard not Judy" and "Jerry Springer: the Opera" fame) wrote a fascinating article on German humour and how the role of noun and verb positions have an effect on jokes and, in particular, how English allows us to be incredibly lazy when it comes to puns - the classic "A man walks into a bar. Ouch!" being a particularly pertinent example.
So there you go - a 90mm that's both moshtastic and edumactional. Never say I don't give you anything. And feel free to hang out with your wang out.
