Germans keep doing it

[Ya Sam]

I don't know how far into AtD you are, but there is one Austrian law term 
there that I managed to find on google not without some difficulties.


>From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Germans keep doing it
>Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:48:14 +0100
>
>Take the date for example:
>
>04. Jänner 2007 -- nice Austrian word for January in my opinion.
>
>on Naumann:
>
>as far as I've understood it Pynchon was wondering why and how Naumann
>could do it, joining the other side, at least temporarily!
>
>2007/1/5, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
>> >I bet the Austrians don't like being called Germans . . . well, 1938 
>>they
>> >...
>>
>>Yeah, mea culpa, should be 'reviewers writing in German' or something like
>>that. And, I heard that Austrian German was a bit different from German
>>proper (High German?) as well.
>>
>>BTW, now looking at all those reviews it is pretty understandable why a
>>German minister is a good acquaintance of Pynchon's, the Germans are the
>>most Pynchonised European nation, no doubt 'bout that.
>>

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