When Were You Born?

Quote from Stumpy

Our new freund von Deutschland apparently speaks/reads English better than he/she writes it. Birthdate was December 18, 1962 in Monchengladbach.

I took a college course in German while stationed there in the early Seventies and just barely passed. It's a hard language to learn.

What threw me more than anything else were the genders der, die, das, which correspond to the English he, she and it. To an English speaker like me, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason for designating an object by gender.

When I'd had a few German beers (much stronger than American brew), I could rattle it off pretty well. Which is why every time my (German-born) wife and I went to see her folks, my mother-in-law always offered me a beer first thing.

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Although we don't have gender based definite articles and modifiers, we do randomly assign genders to some nouns. As an example, the U.S. is referred to as a female (despite Uncle Sam).

Quote from TexasPiper

Although we don't have gender based definite articles and modifiers, we do randomly assign genders to some nouns. As an example, the U.S. is referred to as a female (despite Uncle Sam).

We also refer to our cars, military ships, planes and many other items as she or her.

I was born in 1956.

Quote from DakotaSurfer

Just had to get my passport so I had to dig up my original birth certificate.
10 weeks for the passport.

I hope you get that passport in 10 weeks. Our son allowed more than that, and two weeks before he was to leave, he still didn't have it. And two weeks out is the soonest you can start bugging them for it. Early the morning of the two week time limit, he was on the phone. That passport was in his hands one week before he was to leave, but he still had to send it to Washington, DC, to get his visa. What a nail biter that was! It came back from the Ghanian embassy the day before they were to leave!! It cost us a small fortune in overnight charges, both ways!

The big hold-up is due to the new restrictions traveling to Canada and Mexico, requiring a passport. So many had applied for passports they finally had to loosen that a little; folks traveling to those countries at least must have proof of having applied for a passport, along with picture ID, at least for the summer.

I hope yours comes sooner.

Mrs. C

It did just take 10 weeks... we've had them for a couple months. We went in late January and applied for ours and got them in early April. Before the mad rush of millions so the 10 weeks was a fair estimate. Today... maybe 3 - 4 months is closer.

Hello All,
Just to join in the fun, I was born in London on 03 January 1940 and managed to survive to come to Australia.
Regards
Redcap

i have been bugged by the little bloke to put in where he was born so here goes

little smokey was born in canberra, the hospital was in the suburb of bruce but we lived in richardson, he was born 04 november 1996.:sport_box:

cheers smokey

I was born in England in December 1946. JJ

I'm 53 (born in 1954)...'Donovan's Reef" was the first Wayne movie I remember seeing but since my Dad is a big fan I'm sure we were at the local drive-in everytime they showed one.

I'm glad to see this thread is being revived, and I hope more of our newer members will chime in with their birth year.

Thanks, Keith, for keeping the thread updated as folks add their stats!

Chester

hi ethan

if i didn't say so before thanks for putting the little bloke on the list he loves coming on with me when we have the time mostly on a friday night. you are still doing a grand job looking after this list for us.

cheers smokey

Well, I'm not "new" so to speak, but I'm not on the list. Born in Nitro, West Virginia in 1967. GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!

Thank you dear!

Ah, just look at me and Kevin right there in sixty-nine.....But Kevin has me by a few months though. Where were you in sixty-nine?

Hi

Like the addition of the Associate Members list gives the board a human touch.

Regards

Arthur