i just read rob's message and am elated that someone else knows about and likes the german language. i fell in love with it the first time that i heard it and now have moved here to speak it. i completely agree. i love making up words on the spot. germans will literally make one word out of like... um... well the most words in one that i have ever seen is 7, the most common is 3 or 4. it's great. but the best thing about the language is the constant shortning of words. any normal word that used to long has some shortned version or an acronym made of it. ie. the word for where class takes place is "HS." i'm not even sure of what it stands for but everyone knows what you mean when you say it, so... hey, why not? so i suggest that we, as sinisterines, start to overthrow the english language and shorten anything that we want and make words out of however many we see fit. rise up sinisterines! it's time to change some things :) nick _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+