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xmountainxlionx
06-20-2011, 04:30 PM
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For some reason the youtube video isn't showing up

www.thespanningtree.net/music/nein-halt for the song/video!

thanks.
theJesus
06-21-2011, 07:44 AM
Vid ain't showing up because your video ID is wrong. I tried putting it into a url, but it says it's "malformed." You probably forgot a hyphen or something. In fact, I just tried adding a hyphen and that's exactly the problem

-EdKrQr8NUw

Nice btw
MRCL
06-21-2011, 09:13 AM
Unfortunately since I'm at work I can't watch the vid - makes me curious tho, as to why its "titled no stop". In German. Without the gramatically required comma.
xmountainxlionx
06-21-2011, 10:55 AM
Unfortunately since I'm at work I can't watch the vid - makes me curious tho, as to why its "titled no stop". In German. Without the gramatically required comma.

well, I have been TRYING to learn German, but there is no intended pause when its said.

and thank you theJesus for figuring it out. I spent a good 5 min on it and gave up (slap)
MRCL
06-21-2011, 12:16 PM
well, I have been TRYING to learn German, but there is no intended pause when its said.

and thank you theJesus for figuring it out. I spent a good 5 min on it and gave up (slap)

My mother tongue is German, so if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask :) Halt means stop in German, but its an imperative verb. Like "You there, stop immediately". It does mean "stop", but it cannot be used as a noun. In your intended use, it would be shouted like "Nein, halt!", meaning "No, stop!". "Nein halt" doesn't exist in this form, and is usually spoken with a slight pause (where the comma comes into play).

Grammar Nazi out.
xmountainxlionx
06-21-2011, 04:16 PM
Grammar Nazi out.

lol, I guess my short little phrase was lost in translation! I mean't it to be more like don't stop, or no stopping.

The company I work for is based out of Germany, so alot of our software is in German, and I can kinda read it. Sometimes though I get thrown for a loop and run to google translate.
MRCL
06-21-2011, 04:23 PM
lol, I guess my short little phrase was lost in translation! I mean't it to be more like don't stop, or no stopping.

Uh... in that context, a negative form is actually not used. It would be more like "go forward" or something along those lines. Oherwise... "Kein Stehenbleiben", meaning no standing still.

Song is cool tho :P
theJesus
06-22-2011, 04:30 AM
I've very limited knowledge of the German language, but I understood it to mean "nonstop"
MRCL
06-22-2011, 08:08 AM
I've very limited knowledge of the German language, but I understood it to mean "nonstop"

nonstop in German means nonstop. Yeah we borrow a lot of your words, too.
theJesus
06-22-2011, 12:27 PM
nonstop in German means nonstop. Yeah we borrow a lot of your words, too.
Well, shit, even if I had known that, I still would have chosen "Nein Halt" for the name, just because it sounds cooler.
Wile E
06-26-2011, 04:55 AM
Do you release any of your stuff in flac by chance? I'd like to hear more of it.
MRCL
06-26-2011, 05:33 AM
Well, shit, even if I had known that, I still would have chosen "Nein Halt" for the name, just because it sounds cooler.

Yeah thats why a lot of stuff here has English names that make no sense, but it sounds cool. We even take an English word, make it a verb, and germanify it.
theJesus
06-26-2011, 06:01 AM
Yeah thats why a lot of stuff here has English names that make no sense, but it sounds cool. We even take an English word, make it a verb, and germanify it.
When I studied German in high-school, we spoke a lot of "germanglish." Basically, if we didn't know the word for something in German, we just took the English word and added whatever we thought sounded like German conjugation, etc.