I bedaunk mi recht sche ba eng oli, eigentli wa's ii dea se bedaunga miassat, wäu easchtns bin i e nuar a lestiga Dickschädl, der oiwäu Recht haum muas, und zweitns hob i schau Stuss bmua gschriem e den Forum. (Wea's net glaubt kaun söwa nochlesn.
)
(And don't you worry if you can't understand this even though you
do know some German.)
Muchas gracias, Tagarela (I won't offend you with the best imitation of Brazilian I could manage, which wouldn't be much of an imitation I can assure you
), pero ya se tuteamos,
¿verdad? Therefore
just Sokol will do fine.
I am looking forward to hearing from you again, and keep up the work on Czech.
Thanks, Outsider, who so many times has corrected me when I wrote complete and utter nonsense, some of which isn't even edited out of my older posts.
(And I wouldn't offend you with a Portuguese imitation either. Muito obrigado, e que se vades bem, Tagarela e Outsider!)
Merci, Nanon, moi je
prétends que je parle beaucoup de langues cependant que vous*) ne le prétendez, vous les parlez
vraiment.
*) A
French forero once put me straight on
vouvoiement en France.
Thanks, Topsie, now
you speaking German - that really
is a surprise! Sokol, by the way, is the Pan-Slavic Falcon which is smuggled in somewhere in my
real name out there in the
real world.
With pleasure I answer nevertheless with
skål, but please observe the proper
Austrian drinking etiquette; and as I have a nasty hangover from yesterday evening it is anyway high time for a "Reparaturseidl" (that is, a beer drunken in the morning after to again raise alcohol levels in the blood so that the worst of the hangover, at least temporarily, diminishes):
1. While you say "Pros-", sorry: "skål" of course you
have to make proper eye contact before glasses are touching, and you have to say "skål" to every person in the round before you are allowed to drink, therefore I am now opening the last can of beer in my fridge and:
- Topsie (ladies first, of course), please fetch your drink of choice (non-alcoholic won't do
I would suggest a glass of single malt, or else a straight English ale), because now we are making eye contact and we both say "cheers" before bumping our drinks together
- Nanon, it's your turn now, get the
Vin de Pays of your choice and make eye contact before we can say "toast" and bump our drinks (you probably think this bumping business is
really barbarian, but that's Austrians for you)
- Outsider, same procedure here, only that you probably will choose Macieira, or whatever else is your preference
- and finally, in reversed order, Tagarela; your alcoholic preferences I don't know yet, but probably you're a sucker for Skol, the genuine Brazilian beer
2. Now that we all have successfully bumped our glasses together in the proper fashion we could either drink now or add another element which is not obligatory but stylish:**) we bump our glasses on the table, then lift them again and - drink.
And if you are curious how Austrians ever could get drunk with such a ceremony attached*) to drinking let me assure you: we manage just fine.
*) Well, okay, there's a little secret to that: we only do this bumping-business when we take the first mouthful, usually.
**) Hm, after proof reading of my post I have to admit: no, it's not quite stylish; it is what the younger generation does, especially in rural areas but also, occasionally, here in Vienna. And we all are of the younger generation now, aren't we?!
PS: Don't be too hard on me for my faults in English, French and Portuguese, yes?
