Talk:Lingua europa/Mad

I´m not sure that the Jäger accent is supposed to be German accent at all.

First of all, I´m German, and I don´t talk like that ;-) I do have a horrible accent, for example I *still* can´t pronounce the "th" properly after 20 years, but my accent is different. Germans typically mispronounce "th" as "zz" or "ss", not as "t" like the Jägers; I know I do it all the time. We also tend to mispronounce "you" as "u", not "hyu". I have heard an accent similar to a Jäger´s from a professor from Turkey whose lecture I attended one semester; I had to fight down a chuckle every time he mentioned "turd-world countries"... :-D But most of all, Jäger accent reminds me of Russian accent; I hear plenty of Russian-accented German from other students at university, and the similarity is definitely there.

Second, the Jägers aren´t the only ones who talk like that - the little girl´s mom also speaks with Jäger accent. Since Mechanicsburg is pretty much established to be located in Romania, could Jäger accent be Romanian accent? Or maybe (the Foglio idea of) Romanian country bumpkin dialect? On the other hand, the introduction to one of the GG print editions credits Professor Phil Foglio with compiling a "Jägermonster/Romanian dictionary and phrasebook" (called "Hey Dere, Sveethot!"), which would indicate that Jägermonsters do NOT speak Romanian among themselves - and not German either. - Sir Chaos 19:56, 7 February 2009 (UTC)