Saturday, February 14, 2009

Defective

Quick note: my friend Matt was all excited about Braunschweig's soccer team winning the game this weekend. He was writing one of the team's chants on his Facebook status, and this German friend of ours replied "hast du ne macke??? omg ..." which, once I translated it, literally means "Do you have a defect? Oh my god ..."

haHA! That is so funny and stereotypically German to me, reading "Do you have a defect" as a rough equivalent of "Are you crazy". I want to bring this back to the States; next time someone gets my food order wrong or cuts me off in traffic, I'm just going to scream "Hast du eine Macke?!"

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Haha, I'm going to use it first here before you get home. I will say it wrong but I will scream it at all the peope who get in my way!!! You know the way I say things so I'm sure I will be screaming "YOUR HAIR IS PRETTY"!!!! HAHAHA