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Why does everything spoken in German sound so threatening?

Dyl1983 8 Feb 23
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Visigoth, Ostrogoths. Goths. Germanic people. Warlike. They are not going to have a peaceful resonance. Plus they shout a lot. I watched a trio of Germans in the grocery store . Two of the tourists were taking orders from one guy. He was shouting orders as the 2 others scrambled to obey. It was entertaining until.....sounded too much like my grandmother.

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Just thought of German song you may of heard. Lyrics eem to go along with your question a bit.

An explination of the song:
The term “du hast” is what is referred to as a homophone in that in German, it sounds the same as “du haast”, despite the two terms having different meaning. In other words, du hast, as in the title of this track, translates to “you have”. While du hasst, its homophone, means “you hate”. And while the track is indeed entitled “du hast”, this homophonic wordplay was intentional. In fact while the German is translated as “you have”, the English version specifically states “you hate”.

All in all, this song is based on the singer’s vow not to get married to the woman he is apparently in a relationship with. This is because this woman ‘hates’ him. As such, when he is presented with typical marriage-related questions such as will he ‘be faithful all his days’, “love her even in bad days” and be with her “until death does you part”, his answer is an emphatic and repeated “no”.
Read more at: [songmeaningsandfacts.com]

Word Level 8 Feb 23, 2021
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Simply because it IS a language spoken with a gutteral type tone and inflection as well.
It is also a similar thing in most Scandinavian languages as well.
Though German MAY sound threatening it is NOT meant to be however.

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It's a guttural language with military roots that can be heard over the din of battle. Don't believe me?
Name another tiny country that almost managed to take over the world not once but twice.

Er, France under Napoleon for one example, England for another.

@Triphid Not once - twice. If it were just once then you missed a bunch more.

Everyone has been a long way off so far:

[en.m.wikipedia.org]

You can list the ones that it might be a possible for on one hand, but it’s likely alliances would prevent it happening...always. Unless a miracle happens and it occurs by peace 🙂

@Surfpirate Jeez Louise, you want ME type out a FULL and complete list?

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