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BattleForTheSky [2011-07-18 23:51:16 +0000 UTC]
I had so many problems with this when I first learned English XD
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lasako [2011-07-09 15:59:13 +0000 UTC]
I wonder if America would even know what a hedgehog is. O.o lol!!
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Karalora In reply to lasako [2011-07-10 22:01:23 +0000 UTC]
Of course he does. He knows they're blue and run very very fast. And if you hit one, it'll drop all its rings.
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Karalora [2011-07-09 14:57:48 +0000 UTC]
I like how America kind of looks like the eagle and Germany kind of looks like the hedgehog. I'm not sure why.
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Hayazaki-Iroke [2011-07-09 11:55:40 +0000 UTC]
That is by far the cutest drawn hedgehog I have ever seen <3
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Rheney [2011-07-09 11:44:45 +0000 UTC]
lol Ich hab's auch erst nach der Beschreibung geschnallt xD
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LPHogan [2011-07-09 07:20:21 +0000 UTC]
*images the USA National Animal having beenthe hedgehog... falls down laughing* XD
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Karalora In reply to LPHogan [2011-07-09 14:57:10 +0000 UTC]
Benjamin Franklin thought it should have been the (wild) turkey. How cool would that have been?
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LPHogan In reply to Karalora [2011-07-09 15:04:17 +0000 UTC]
Probably a big blow to the morale... "The American Turkey" doesn't sound very intimidating, more the other way around XD
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Karalora In reply to LPHogan [2011-07-09 15:47:24 +0000 UTC]
Sure, it doesn't sound that way now...maybe if it had been our national symbol all along, it would.
Franklin wanted the turkey to represent America because the wild bird is tough and wily, and because it only lives in North America. To him, the eagle was inextricably a symbol of warlike, imperialistic European nations, and he wanted the new nation to distance itself from all that.
Tough luck, huh? We went with the eagle, and now the U.S. has a (thoroughly deserved) reputation for being warlike and imperialistic.
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LPHogan In reply to Karalora [2011-07-10 21:03:47 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, my wife confirmed the story about the would-be symbol, the Turkey...
Franklin was indeed before his time, he knew future Americans WOULD identify with the their symbol, and tried avoiding it... with now success. His fear is now justified...
The Danish Symbolic Bird is the Swan... does that make us a vain, beautiful people who can go into a frenzy and break a man's arm if somebody threatens us or our youngs?
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Karalora In reply to LPHogan [2011-07-10 21:58:21 +0000 UTC]
I don't know, does it? I've never threatened Danish children, so I couldn't tell you.
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LPHogan In reply to Karalora [2011-07-10 22:15:10 +0000 UTC]
Lets just say its both right and wrong, but many like the romantic image it paints.
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Karalora In reply to LPHogan [2011-07-10 22:44:03 +0000 UTC]
I kind of like that swans are badass. I just like the idea that this beautiful, graceful, purity-symbolic animal can totally wreck your ass if you try anything. It's up there with the animated film version of Watership Down.
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Saphire1515 [2011-07-09 04:41:19 +0000 UTC]
I wish our national animal was a hedgehog...
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GreenTeaYe [2011-07-09 01:49:02 +0000 UTC]
*imagining America's symbol as a hedgehog*
lol
>.> thus the magestic eagle has been demoted to a hedgehog
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MathildasDoubel In reply to GreenTeaYe [2011-07-09 04:30:00 +0000 UTC]
America would be so much more individual with a hedgehog...everyone has an eagle...well, if they don't have a lion.
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GambitMojo [2011-07-08 22:44:22 +0000 UTC]
vat ist das?
a back scratcher?
oh i know adler means eagle in German
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MathildasDoubel In reply to AkkyKitsune [2011-07-08 18:37:04 +0000 UTC]
Oh. das wusste ich nicht. OoO"
ich dachte die mΓΆgen das. Ich wollte ihnen doch nicht wehtun. ;_;"
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CartoonWhore [2011-07-08 17:36:42 +0000 UTC]
XD I wonder how many people get the two confused~
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MathildasDoubel In reply to CartoonWhore [2011-07-08 17:39:36 +0000 UTC]
XD
I don't know. but as far as i know is the eagle one of the animals, whose English name is more known in Germany.. :3
So i suppose there are prozentual more English native speakers that confuse the German Igel with the English eagle. XD
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CartoonWhore In reply to MathildasDoubel [2011-07-08 17:45:22 +0000 UTC]
c: Having a hedgehog as a national animal wouldn't be that bad though. Hedgehogs are cute! *NOT SONIC 8C*
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MathildasDoubel In reply to CartoonWhore [2011-07-08 17:52:44 +0000 UTC]
Yes hedgehogs are cute.
when I living at my granma's house I often gave the hedgehogs in her garden some milk and watched them from behind the window. Β°wΒ°
I actually think, that the hedgehog kind of fits the stereotype of America.
You know...loads of mean spikes (weapons, power) but inside the hedgehog is actually a very sensitive and timid animal. ^^"
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MathildasDoubel In reply to CartoonWhore [2011-07-08 18:23:11 +0000 UTC]
well...I hope, that not every american has ca. 80% of his body covered with weapons... I suppose this would be quite uncomfortable. ^^"
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AmieAdot [2011-07-08 17:34:24 +0000 UTC]
Ich habe es anfangs nicht verstanden....xD
Bis ich die Beschreibung gelesen habe....xD
Und jetzt muss ich mich totlachen :'D
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