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“Only I get to say Schiet.” – The German of Episode… Nein

[Episode 8] [The whole series]

So, after
accidentally helping to make Liam happy this week, I somehow got a metric fuck
ton of new followers (okay, 20, but that’s a metric fuck ton for me, okay?), so
I assume this is what you all signed on for. Germanisms! Of which there were very,
very few!

(Not to
mention that this might be the episode with the fewest nines rolled.)

First of
all, because this is becoming a thing, it is spelled N E I N. Not nien. No matter what Taliesin Jaffe tells you. N E I N. Caleb had it right last
episode. Please. Please stop misspelling it. N E I N.

Caleb also attempted to communicate with Beau, asking her “Alles gut?” which means, literally, all well?, and is basically used to ask if everything’s okay.

Moving on.
Unrelated to this episode, during the last episode of Talks Machina, Sam told
us all that he looked up the German word for mighty, and then tired to pronounce
“mächtig”. It got very creative. Something like Mishtish was the result, I
think? For the record, the correct pronunciation is ma (as in many) – hissy y
sound – tig. Some accents do the hissy y sound for gs at the end, too. Or just
turn it all into shs. Some accents do that.

Next on my
list, again nothing that Liam said, but unless I heard wrong, Matt named
something

Weinsteiger.
Wein means wine and Steiger means… Well. Steigen means to rise. Besteigen means
to climb something. A Steiger, without something before that, was a foreman in
a coal mine. Carrying a light. In his hand.

I will now
introduce you to the hymn of my home region, as sung before a soccer game of
the club of my hometown. It’s called the Steiger Song, literally. It’s a coal
miner’s song. I’m from an area in Germany that was, like, THE industrial center
and full of coal mines until the entire thing broke down in the 70ies-80ies and
has been dying a slow death since. Though at least no one has tried to get us
back into business with “clean coal” yet.

I’m sorry. Germans are not patriotic in the regular sense, but if we are attached
to anything, it’s to our soccer clubs, and even though I don’t give a shit
about soccer outside of world cups, that’s still a little piece of home for me.

Here’s a more official version. Also, if you want to giggle, it’s a choir of old men singing, with a straight face, that they’re covering their asses with leather and get drunk on Schnaps. Culture!

(I might
have misheard the name. Wine is a thing in Germany, too, but quite bit south
from where I’m from. Also, there’s a German soccer player called Sebastian
Schweinsteiger (though he might have retired? I only care during world cups),
with Schwein meaning pig. Draw your own conclusions as to the origins of that
last name.)

Speaking of
names and things that make me feel weirdly nostalgic, let’s look at the title
quote! Schiet, or Schiete is another word for shit. It’s more broadly used in
the northern regions of Germany, close to the regions where people speak
Plattdeutsch, which is the closest thing to English the German language gets before
it turns into Dutch. Please don’t lynch me for that joke.

Why is it
nostalgic for me? Because my grandmother, who has no northern roots, used to
say it instead of shit. The easily scandalized one from a few episodes ago. We
have continuity now!

“Ie”, by
the way, is pronounced like a long ee sound in your language. Like in beer. Another
reason you shouldn’t spell it as nien.

And that’s
it for episode NEIN!

PS: For a more concise and straight-forward vocabulary list, go here! @tj-teejay started compiling the various things and phrases being said in order to make life easier for the transcribers, and recruited me as a contributor!

PPS: Once upon a time, when the first Hunger Game movie came out, there was a facebook campaign which sorted you into districts based on your location. I got district 7, which I would have been okay with, Joanna is bae, if not for the fact that I could see a literal coal mine from my living room at the time.

PPPS: I have decided to positively lean into the neins. Which is a funny statement. Positively leaning into the no.

You know, when we found out Tary was a sheltered trust fund baby with no concept of how money and not having any works, he was everyone’s precious shiny sparkly son in a matter of two weeks.

I saw some people criticizing him over lording his wealth over the player character most obviously affected by spending most of her time in poverty, but it was never a big thing somehow. Instead, said player character was always called a greedy bitch for haggling down prices and caring about loot and amassing wealth, none of which she ever spent for herself until the year break (and even then Percy had to talk her into it).

And yet somehow, Caleb mentions he grew up in poverty once, and everyone’s ready to jump on his working class hero down with the burgeoise’s dick immediately and shame Jester for lashing out when she was upset. Stay classy, fandom. Stay fucking classy.

leiaorganawrites:

So let me get this clear. Last campaign when percy made a snobbish comment we called him charming – but now jester makes one and she’s ignorant and a hater of the working class? OH WELL.

This campaign we side with poor boy Caleb who (allegedly, because he’s a shady motherfucker and I don’t trust anything he says) grew up with little money and is very stingy about it.

Last campaign, Vex, who grew up in poverty before and after Syngorn and had to make ends meet while on the road with her brother for years, was the greediest bitch of the universe for trying to get the most out of their money and be careful about spending.

transchrishartley:

In regards to Jester and Caleb at the Tri-Spires:

Fandoms have an awful tendency to hate on female characters in general but especially when they do something the fandom dislikes to their male fave and let’s face it Caleb is a male fave. So before this gets out of control I have something to say.

Jester did not know what she was saying was hurtful to Caleb. She was expressing her feelings. Ones she is allowed to have. She is not used to living this way and she is not very self-sufficient. She is in a new and scary environment for her. To an outside observer it might look like she is being selfish and whiny but we have basically been given confirmation Jester is hiding a lot of how she feels under forced positivity. Jester has a right to feel upset. She has no one in the world to care for her anymore. Far as she knows she might not be able to count on her mother. This girl is also in danger because remember Jester is marked for death. She was basically rushed out on her in the span of one night. Her lifestyle has been disrupted and she has not been given the skills to handle that. She is scared and alone so she expressed that in a way that accidentally hurt Caleb.

In addition to all of this Jester grew up in isolation and we know for a fact she has terrible social skills. She has no filter, no manners and no tact because she never had to learn those skills. The best she has is her ability to con strangers (which is probably something she learned from her mother). She’s never had to hold her tongue so she didn’t think to do so. She said what was on her mind because she is going through a hard time and it upset Caleb.

AND she felt bad! She felt genuinely sorry to have hurt Caleb’s feelings. She tried to apologise and tell him she didn’t mean to insult him but he didn’t want to hear it (which is also well within his right as the injured party and as he was already in a bad mood). However Jester did try to make it right. Caleb doesn’t have to forgive her but we have to acknowledge that she tried.

Laura plays Jester beautifully as a young girl having to adjust to her new lot in life and while she tries to stay optomistic and happy sometimes the reality of her situation gets to her. Playing her character well means sometimes doing and saying things that on the outside seem quite cruel but Jester doesn’t know any better. Laura as her creator understands in some situations Jester is oblivious to what she is doing and why it is wrong.

Let’s be real, if the genders were reversed, people would be shitting on her for being careful with money and stingy about it like Caleb was here and to just let the other guy have fun with it.

Oh, wait, that already did happen with Vex the greediest bitch in the universe, whoops.

Okay I feel like the people talking about Laura taking months or even a year off of Critical Role either don’t have kids or they’re those super overprotective parents. It doesn’t take long to feel like you need to get out of the house and see your friends so you can feel like a whole person again. It’s like you said, it would be one thing if Critical Role was a full time, 9-5, 5-6 days a week job, but it’s a few hours a week with friends. That’s gonna be what they’re craving after not too long.

transchrishartley:

agnesgoesadventuring:

Thank you for sharing your perspective as a parent. I’ve heard very similar things from friends of mine who have had babies about the desire to get out of the house and see friends. It, of course, depends on the individual and nobody is going to feel exactly the same, but it does seem to be a common feeling.

And, again, there is of course the option of skype, which would allow her to participate in the game and spend time with her friends without having to leave the baby.

I am very curious about how Matt will handle the absence, for however long it might be, and I kind of want to suggest the no-battle side story idea, because it was so fun for our group and I would love to see such a thing on the show.

Also Travis exists…

I’m not sure why but, at least to me anyway, it feels like no one has considered that Travis will, you know, help take care if his child so maybe he could stay home a few times and she could go be on the show. Laura is not the only one becoming a parent and Travis does not strike me as the “old fashioned 50’s man of the house, you stay home with the baby, dear” type of guy. He seems like the type perfectly willing to stay at home with his baby so his wife can go to work or go have fun with their friends.

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. People have this weird perception that only moms take time off for babies, and that taking time off means they can’t go out and have fun for 4 hours a week.

My guess is they will both be gone for a little while, or maybe taking turns attending. Or they might even Skype in, depending on how noisy the baby is. Some babies are chill and could be taken to the studio after only a few months, and I’m sure there’s a bunch of people there who could handle watching a baby while they’re playing.

But honestly, what kind of a dick move would it be for Travis to go attend the game and have fun with their friends and just leave Laura home with the baby for a fucking year? People. Get your values and outlook on life fixed, please. Or find some more decent fathers to be around, that can help, too.

Hot take: If all it took for local government to allow anyone to kill Jester on sight was playing a prank on a noble, chances are her mom had good reasons to keep her locked away before then. Doesn’t make it any less tragic, but, you know. If that’s how people treat tieflings in Nikodramos, mommy had a point.

Hi, yes, I am here for a German™ lesson for my ignorance on the language, including but not limited to NEINNN

widofjordwillwork:

German lesson for all the Critters and other people:

All names and nouns are written with a capital letter. (Or, written in German™: All Names and Nouns are written with a capital Letter.)
Same goes for nominalised words.

The plural forms mostly end in an -e, not an -s. Vowels are sometimes changed into Umlaute or, as I heard people call it, Umlauts. E.g.: It’s Tisch – Tische (table/s) but the plural of Baum is Bäume (tree/s).

Nein – no
Ja – yes
Bitte – please
Gerne/gern geschehen – you’re welcome
Ich heiße Caleb – I’m called Caleb
Hallo – hello
Guten Morgen/Tag/Nachmittag/Abend – good morning/day/afternoon/evening
Ich liebe Nott – I love Nott
Ich bin ein Zauberer – I’m a wizard
Ich bin ein kleines Goblinmädchen – I’m a little goblin girl
Das ist beeindruckend! – That’s impressive!

Curses:
Scheiße (or scheisse if you don’t have the ß) – shit
Mist – also shit but not seen as that offensive, I think (-> crap)
Verdammt – damn
Fick dich – fuck you

(Please correct me if there’s anything wrong with this!!!)

Hi, hello, yes, I am here to insert myself into this because since episode 4, I’ve been writing basic breakdowns of all the German used or alluded to in the episodes, and you can find them right here.

(Mist is also closer do dung. Like, animal dung. And nobody says Guten Nachmittag.)