3 Comments

1. 
   Mike

   April 22, 2008 at 9:09 am

   We’re living parallel lives this morning. Although I haven’t posted a link to this blog (and probably won’t), I did comment on it.
2. 
   Patty

   April 22, 2008 at 9:25 am

   Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have posted a link? I wonder. (I guess she’ll let me know if she doesn’t want it; my feeling is if it’s a blog and not password protected it’s up fro grabs. But I could easily be wrong!)

   I saw your well written comment. (Me? I can’t write well. Whatever.)

   I do still miss the guttural sound of German in the dialogue. Oh well.
3. 
   Mike

   April 22, 2008 at 10:20 am

   I’m sure posting a link is fine. I just didn’t because I didn’t feel like it.

   Honestly, I’m grateful I didn’t have to memorize any German dialogue. Although I’m lucky in that my “character” (such as it is) is stern and even-keeled. It requires no acting beyond sounding authoritative. I could probably do that in German (heck, authoritative is probably easier in German!). But the thought of having to act in another language… doesn’t sound like fun. Plus, I memorize words much more easily when they’re set to music. Memorizing the foreign text in an opera is a chore, so foreign dialogue would (I assume) be that much harder.