Germans keep doing it

[Mark Kohut]

Michael Nauman is an acquaintance of Pynchon's most probably
  because he ran the Holt Company in America when Mason & Dixon was published.

Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
  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 :
> >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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