Chile Forum

Don't forget Ominami.

WHats interesting to me and I see it in the south al the time...is the german accent in castellano by the germans....the germans born in chile of course...they should have no accent and it is manufactured most of the time...its helps them portray their <uniqueness> but also as a business skill in negociating a price or return of a product...I have personaly been talking with a german in their store and their accent changes when a non-german Chilean comes in...very...socio-pathic routine if you ask me...


p out


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jaja true! they love to talk using guttural/German style inflexions when talking with chileno-chilenos. Horst Paulmann -one of the wealthiest man in Chile- arrived to Latin America in the 40s when he was 14 years old and he speak today with a very strong German accent, is a sort of marketing strategy

Henry Kissinger was even younger when he arrived in the United States, but he still -- two-thirds of a century later -- speaks with a thick German accent (and writes with a bit of one, too). By contrast, his older brother sounds as American as apple pie.

I spent New Year's of 2005 in Puerto Varas, on my own. I was walking around town one day, idly looking for a particular shop and not finding it. A pleasant-faced, older man in Tyrolean cap stepped out of his car a half block ahead of me, saw me at once, waited, and asked me when I drew near if he could help me -- in German! A bit of a surprise (true, I'm tall and fair, but mostly of English descent, not German). More surprising, his accent wasn't Chilean, but almost Bavarian. He kindly accompanied me to the shop, chatting in German, not English or Spanish, all the way. 'Turns out that his ancestors had come from the Germanies, Baden (if I remember correctly) and Bavaria, in the 1850s, part of the initial wave of farmers and merchants enticed to a roughhewn and needy land. And, although my interlocutor was then in his sixties, he had himself never been to Germany; nor had his parents or grandparents! He'd learned his German from his family, keeping a version of the ancestral accent through several generations.

Oddly, when he'd brought me to the door of the shop and we'd bidden each other farewell, I entered to find myself confused for a minute or two, unable to speak with the clerk in either Spanish or English, only German (which the mestizo clerk didn't understand at all). I'd never been so baffled before and, I hope, never will be again.

hey, how about this guy.....an article about a Nazi doctor believed to still be alive, one area of interest is Chile for his whereabouts...


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24373158/page/2/

vicki, you posted the page two of the link instead of the page one


lates,

p out.


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ah p...no one has ever accused me of being extremely bright! Half the time I'm flitting around in an internet frenzy, not paying attention. Anyway, how about some more stories of clandestine meetings and intrigue?


Vicki