Sometimes the Germans’ English is so good that they make the same mistakes that native speakers make. But still, that gratuitous apostrophe makes my skin crawl.
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sarah stäbler
*USA*PARIS*HAMBURG*AN AMERICAN GIRL IN GERMANY
There used to be a place in the Karlsruhe Hbf that advertised “smacks” instead of “snacks”. Sadly it’s gone now.
Multiple Choice:
A. at the cafe, the Snack, being a sentient being, has his own ice cream. Hence “Snack’s Eis”.
B. Mr. Snack himself runs the cafe and sells ice cream as well.
C. a German making a mistake in English
D. In Italy we stayed across the street from the Cafe Spleen. What the heck??
If you look for skin-crawling, consider the far more harmful “must not”, which from a German usually means “need not”… (As in Germany’s “muss nicht”.)