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smirkymonkey

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12. I am not sure about Czech or Slovenian, but when I studied in Austria, in German they

Reply to saidsimplesimon (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 05:39 PM

Feb 2018

called me "Die smirkymonkey" or they would call a man "Der John" or whatever his name was if they were speaking about a specific John or sometimes they would refer to themselves as die or der and their name. This is mostly done in Bavaria and Austria, so maybe Ivana and Melania thought it was a regional dialect thing with "DAS Donald".

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