HOME | DD
MathildasDoubel β America's national animal
Published: 2011-07-08 17:33:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4534; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
the English word "eagle" sounds like the German word "Igel", which means "hedgehog", nuff said.characters belong to
Related content
Comments: 40
I had so many problems with this when I first learned English XD
π: 0 β©: 0
Hahaha, toll! Ich musste erst die Beschreibung lesen um das zu verstehen, aber dann hab ich mich kringelig gelacht.
π: 0 β©: 0
I wonder if America would even know what a hedgehog is. O.o lol!!
π: 0 β©: 1
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.
π: 1 β©: 1
π: 0 β©: 0
I like how America kind of looks like the eagle and Germany kind of looks like the hedgehog. I'm not sure why.
π: 0 β©: 0
That is by far the cutest drawn hedgehog I have ever seen <3
π: 0 β©: 0
lol Ich hab's auch erst nach der Beschreibung geschnallt xD
π: 0 β©: 0
*images the USA National Animal having beenthe hedgehog... falls down laughing* XD
π: 0 β©: 1
Benjamin Franklin thought it should have been the (wild) turkey. How cool would that have been?
π: 0 β©: 1
Probably a big blow to the morale... "The American Turkey" doesn't sound very intimidating, more the other way around XD
π: 0 β©: 1
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.
π: 0 β©: 1
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?
π: 0 β©: 1
I don't know, does it? I've never threatened Danish children, so I couldn't tell you.
π: 0 β©: 1
Lets just say its both right and wrong, but many like the romantic image it paints.
π: 0 β©: 1
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.
π: 0 β©: 1
I'm guilty of being in love with that image myself, to a point where I want the Swan to be portraited in my heraldy (along with a Dolphin and two Crows) should I ever get the chance...
π: 0 β©: 0
I wish our national animal was a hedgehog...
π: 0 β©: 1
it would be really cute.^w^
π: 0 β©: 0
*imagining America's symbol as a hedgehog*
lol
>.> thus the magestic eagle has been demoted to a hedgehog
π: 0 β©: 1
America would be so much more individual with a hedgehog...everyone has an eagle...well, if they don't have a lion.
π: 0 β©: 1
vat ist das?
a back scratcher?
oh i know adler means eagle in German
π: 0 β©: 1
Yes, "Adler" means "eagle" in German.
π: 0 β©: 0
Aww, der deutsche Igel sieht ja sΓΌΓ aus. 
(PS: Bitte gib Igeln keine Milch. Wie die meisten erwachsenen SΓ€ugetiere sorgt das bei ihnen fΓΌr (schmerzhaften) Durchfall. ~-~βββ [link] )
π: 0 β©: 1
Oh. das wusste ich nicht. OoO"
ich dachte die mΓΆgen das. Ich wollte ihnen doch nicht wehtun. ;_;"
π: 0 β©: 1
Selbst bei uns Menschen kΓΆnnen ja nur die wenigsten Milch vertragen. (Wir EuropΓ€er sind eine Mutation! 
π: 0 β©: 0
XD I wonder how many people get the two confused~
π: 0 β©: 1
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
π: 0 β©: 1
c: Having a hedgehog as a national animal wouldn't be that bad though. Hedgehogs are cute! *NOT SONIC 8C*
π: 0 β©: 1
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. ^^"
π: 0 β©: 1
Awwww!
That's a stereotype? XD
π: 0 β©: 1
well...I hope, that not every american has ca. 80% of his body covered with weapons... I suppose this would be quite uncomfortable. ^^"
π: 0 β©: 1
BUT IT WOULD LOOK BAD-ASS 
π: 0 β©: 0
Ich habe es anfangs nicht verstanden....xD
Bis ich die Beschreibung gelesen habe....xD
Und jetzt muss ich mich totlachen :'D
π: 0 β©: 1
Naja, so lange du lachen musstest, war meine massion erfolgreich.
π: 0 β©: 1
Definitiv war sie das.
π: 0 β©: 0