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Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Oh, those clever Nazis. Watch out, it's a trap!
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"Arschloch" at 0:08? [:D]
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"Arschloch" at 0:08? [:D]

Not just an Arschloch, but ein dummes Arschloch... [:D]
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Hello

It is a constructed language. So not real. The only real german word is the last one "arschloch" = asshole. But without any context.

Charles Chaplin did the same in his great Film The Great Dictator. There are some german words like „Wiener Schnitzel“, „Sauerkraut“, „Blitzkrieg“, „straff“, „Leberwurst“.


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Hello

It is a constructed language. So not real. The only real german word is the last one "arschloch" = asshole. But without any context.

Wow, then I have to be some sort of genius [:D] Until today I only knew "jawohl mein Fuhrer" and "Ich bin ein Berliner" (JFK's famous words) [8D] Not kidding.
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How about "Ein sprechen nicht Duestch - sprechen zie English?" or "Ein gulash souppe und ein coke bitte" - the two phrases that allowed me to survive for three weeks in Bavaria!
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How about "Ein sprechen nicht Duestch - sprechen zie English?" or "Ein gulash souppe und ein coke bitte" - the two phrases that allowed me to survive for three weeks in Bavaria!

Even better "Zwei bier bitte, mein freund wird bezahlen." ( something like that ) :) Though in Bayern I think they said "zwo" rather than "zwei".
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Hello

I think you are smarte than you pretend and know more than you show :) To be humorously and ingenious is a evidence of smartness.

When I read what I wrote here I think I am only a brown-noser ;)

For many people the first words of a foreign language are often cuss words.

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Wow, then I have to be some sort of genius [:D] Until today I only knew "jawohl mein Fuhrer" and "Ich bin ein Berliner" (JFK's famous words) [8D] Not kidding.
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For many people the first words of a foreign language are often cuss words.

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This is indeed true in my case! I guess many people can't help it... Put let's say a parrot's cage outside. What will many passerbies do (no matter the age and gender)? They will say some bad word, hoping that the parrot is going to learn it...
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For many people the first words of a foreign language are often cuss words.

Omat

This is indeed true in my case! I guess many people can't help it... Put let's say a parrot's cage outside. What will many passerbies do (no matter the age and gender)? They will say some bad word, hoping that the parrot is going to learn it...

I own an African Grey parrot and the first three words she learned were cuss words (during the Stanley Cup playoffs a few years back).
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Parrots live a very long time you know. I remember a few years ago their was a story going around the internet about someone who had (supposedly) bought or been willed Churchill's parrot. The Parrot's favorite phrase was "Fuck Hitler!" . [:D] Don't know if it's true, but it's a great story never the less.

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I own an African Grey parrot and the first three words she learned were cuss words (during the Stanley Cup playoffs a few years back).

LOL

I take it the team you supported was losing big time! [8D] Is this the parrot? [:D]
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