Learning foreign languages
Dracula BBC, Blood Vessel
Conversation between Valeria, Grand Duchess of Augsburg and Count Dracula from Walachia (historically known as Vlad the Impaler, ‘Son of the Dragon' in medieval Romanian).
COUNT DRACULA: Forgive me. My German is very rusty. Would you excuse me for a moment? (leaves the room and ‘drinks’ the Bavarian sailor on the stirring wheel)
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COUNT DRACULA (comes back): Es tut mir leid. Hat etwas länger gedauert als erwartet. Es ist eine wunderbare Nacht und ... ein schöner Mond. (I’m sorry. It took a bit longer than expected. It’s such a wonderful night and ... a beautiful moon.))
GRAND DUCHESS VALERIA OF AUGSBURG: Aber Sie sprechen ein ganz wunderbares Bayrisch! (But … you are speaking most excellent Bavarian!))
COUNT DRACULA: Ah, you‘re too kind. I … I s-seem to have remembered more than I thought. It’s good to refresh oneself.
(For anyone who wants to hear Count Dracula speak Bavarian, I can recommend the german dubbed version. It’s absolutely exquisit! :)))
Sherlock BBC, The Empty Hearse
Mycroft Holmes! What have you done to absorb the Serbian language so quickly???
Middle age comes to us all … Really? Is it ‘MIDDLE AGE’ or rather …. ‘MEDIEVAL’ …. (sparked by a fivehundred years old warlord) that has overcome brother Mycroft? :)))))
Etymology of ‘blud’ (x x):
Multicultural London English: BLUD is of Jamaican origin and used as an informal adress to a male. It means "Mate (from blood brother)"
In Czech etymology it means … delusion
In Serbo Croatian etymology it means … bawdry, carnality, fornication
COUNT DRACULA: “Blood ... is not … nothing! Blood is testimony!”
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