Duesenberg or Studebaker
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Topic: Duesenberg or Studebaker
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Duesenberg or Studebaker
Date Posted: December 13 2016 at 16:47
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choose which name you find most cool -------------  
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 13 2016 at 16:52
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both are also legendary cars with outragous design -------------
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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 13 2016 at 20:27
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Of those names, I think I like "Studebaker" the most. I think I like the look of the Duesenberg cars the best, though. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 14 2016 at 00:04
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Both names clearly have German origin. "Düse" is German for "jet" or "nozzle" and "Berg" is German for "mountain", so "Duesenberg" means "Jet Mountain". The spelling "Duese" instead of "Düse" is just the way to indicate the German umlaut "ü". You can't just leave out the dots in umlauts as many people falsely think; it can lead to serious misunderstandings. The best example for this is the difference between "geachtet" and "geächtet". "Geachtet" means "well-respected" but "geächtet" means "ostracized", which is quite the opposite. To indicate the German umlaut on typewriters it became common practice to add an "e" after the vowel. So for example "geächtet" would become "geaechtet", and that's why "Düsenberg" became "Duesenberg". Actually the different spelling is used in German family names as well. For example: The extremely common family name "Müller" (meaning "Miller") is sometimes spelled "Müller" and sometimes "Mueller"; in a phone directory you will find both spelling variations. There may for example be entries for a "Sabine Müller" and a "Sabine Mueller" in the same directory. So if in Germany you give a family name with an umlaut on the phone like "Jäger" (meaning "Hunter"), "Förster" ("Forrester") or "Müller" you will usually be asked if the spelling is with "ä", "ö" or "ü" respectively or with "ae", "oe" or "ue" because both name variants exist. "Studebaker" is obviously derived from the German word "Stutenbäcker". "Stuten" is "milk bread" and "Bäcker" is "baker", so "Stutenbäcker" is "baker of milk bread". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 14 2016 at 00:57
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they are probably last-names of persons. Very commom in car companies -------------
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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: December 14 2016 at 10:51
Cool etymology. Thanks! Though it kind of makes me want to change my vote now. "Jet Mountain" sounds a heck of a lot cooler than "baker of milk bread".  ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 14 2016 at 14:06
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Just do it in a berg.... Duesenberg because it sounds similar to Dudes in Berg which is totally cool (berg is short for iceberg). I could imagine myself using it in a sentence at some biker dance bar, such as "Yo, you guys so dudesinberg it's like you're floating in a large piece of ice that broke of a glacier". Said compliment then giving me an in with the cool crowd. ;) Or getting me beat up more likely. As for Studebaker, not so cool sounding as it could be study baker as in study "a baker" or study a bakery, which I'm not interested in. Or it could be like "Stud the Baker". To use it in a sentence, "Yo, Monsieur Pâtissier, you look so studly beating that dough that you should be called Stud the Baker". Said compliment resulting in me getting a free doughnut, or perhaps beat about the head with a rolling pin. As for Oldsmobile (how we spell it here), not to be ageist, but it's not cool sounding at all. It sounds like old people who are probably only mobile with the aid of a cane. It sound like Old is mobile, or in shortened form Old 's Mobile. To use it in a sentence, "Yo, venerable ancient one, I'd like to call you Old-mobile, but you're more like old 's NOT mobile. Better get that engine revved." Which might get a response such as as "Did you you call me an old snot mobile, sonny?" followed by a hard smack with a cane. For this I really should pay my dues by being eternally trapped in iceberg. God I suck. :( |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 14 2016 at 23:21
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 11:20
'Tis better than this poor soul whose head was entrapped in a particularly carnivorous variety of iceberg lettuce (not your common or garden variety of lettuce).  "Waiter, I asked for a head of lettuce, not a head in lettuce." |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 14:01
Its Holden for me  ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 14:41
Wouldn't be my first choice of car to be holden' on to. I kid, it is a pretty cool name for a car, in fact one could say that it's holden' its own in this topic. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 15:09
Or its just Holden together, its a GM product (Australia) which was based around Pontiac designs in the old days but about to end production next year and go the way of Oldsmobile and other GM brands, unfortunately the name is continuing and will become a badge "engineered" car. In the Us you would be familiar with the last Pontiac GTO - which was really and Holden Monaro (above is a 1969 Monaro) More below     ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 15:24
Yours is definitely a better Holden pun than mine. They are very nice looking cars, and I drove one for a while when in Cairns. It belonged to my brother, and he was very upset when an ember of my cigarette fell on the seat and burnt a hole in it. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 16:18
Jezz, he would have been upset the 70's and earlier 2 door Monaro's bring upwards of $50k here now....... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 16:44
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Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: December 15 2016 at 18:07
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Now, some men say he looked like (he looked like) Felix pappalardi (felix pappalardi); still others say (others say), Bullsh*t, man (bullsh*t, man) he was just born (he was born) Next to the frozen beef pies at gristede's (frozen beef pies). Still others say (others say he was just another) Again, he was just a crazy italian (crazy italian) who drove a red car. You see it was hard to tell (but nobody knows), Nobody knew for sure (for sure), He was so (so) mysterious (mysterious), Studebaker Hoch the only car a self respecting Proggy should drive ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 16 2016 at 08:30
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 17 2016 at 07:29
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other Pontiac!!!  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |