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Found on metaquotes, I've been laughing about the responses to this post all night.

Some choice quotes from various responses:

Wow! I am surprised (überraschen) and overjoyed (überglücklich) to discover that the prefix über- can only be used with nouns!

And also that it can only be taken literally. German history makes so much more sense when you realize that the slogan "Deutschland über Alles" means that German is physically situated above everything else. I suppose when you believe your entire country is floating somewhere above Europe, it's bound to lead to some oddities of foreign policy.

Among the reasons it can be difficult to be a grammar-whore, grammar-nazi, grammar-temple-concubine or what have you, is the fact that English does not merely borrow words from other languages. English chases other languages into dark alleys, clubs them over the head and turns out their pockets looking for loose vocabulary.

This process is, to put it gently, not pretty.

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Bwahahahaha! indyansel, time to get animating. ;)

GIP

Thanks to the lovely and talented indyansel. :-D

Context: http://www.haka.co.nz/haka.php (Has sound that autoplays, but not essential.)