D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > >But some women still insist on being called "Fräulein", to display their unmarried status.
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> Here, everyone.
I once addressed a Finnish friend of mine, who speaks Swedish, "Fröken". I don't know if this is the correct spelling, but at least people who are accustomed to understanding the northern dialects of German will see the similarity to "Fräulein". I did it to tease her, assumedly in good fun.
But she's a feminist of the old 70s school, and she really got mad at me. "This is 'fru'," she exclaimed, "ich bin eine Frau und kein Fräulein!" (I am a woman and not a little woman.)
That's what you usually get when using "Fräulein" in metro areas of West Germany. I can't speak for l'Allemagne profonde, because I'm only a tourist there.
- Dieter |
