Monday, April 6, 2009

Austrian is not a language.

The U.S. President would have been better off if he had left the "n" off "Austrian" in this recent press conference:
There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing...
How does someone get to be the head of state of a Western country and not know that Austrians generally speak German? I'll hope it was just a slip caused by jet lag.

Incidentally, per the LEO online German-English dictionary, "wheeling and dealing" can be translated as "die Kungelei" or "die Geschäftemacherei".

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