@ViennaVampire Someone who claimed to be a native speaker once told me that hasslich with an umlaut meant ugly as in clothes being ugly rather than as in humans being ugly. Were they lying to me?
@Londonman84 Hm... well, I definitivly AM a nativ speaker and I can just say, that I never heard, that "hässlich" would be forbidden to describe people themselves... let's take for example the sentence "The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an ugly man." Everyone I know would translate it with: "Der Bucklige von Notre Dame ist ein HÄSSLICHER Mann."
I don't know who told you that, but I can promise you, that everybody would understand you and know what you mean, if you called a person "hässlich". ;)
Thomas Borchert is perfect in this scene! Actually, he's perfect in the whole thing! :)
potomusicfan4ever 1 month ago
Little misstake: At 3:35, he doesn't say "You're right.", he says "You're NOT right."^^
oochnee 7 months ago
Lucy was always a lot more frightening than Dracula.
Londonman84 9 months ago
@Londonman84 Lol. Even Van Helsing is more frightening than Dracula ;)
ViennaVampire 8 months ago
@ViennaVampire How would you say something to the effect of "Lucy was scarily ugly even when she was a human character," in German?
Londonman84 8 months ago
@Londonman84 You mean I shall translate it? If yes, it would be "Lucy war erschreckend hässlich, selbst als sie noch menschlich war." :)
ViennaVampire 8 months ago
@ViennaVampire Someone who claimed to be a native speaker once told me that hasslich with an umlaut meant ugly as in clothes being ugly rather than as in humans being ugly. Were they lying to me?
Londonman84 8 months ago
@Londonman84 Hm... well, I definitivly AM a nativ speaker and I can just say, that I never heard, that "hässlich" would be forbidden to describe people themselves... let's take for example the sentence "The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an ugly man." Everyone I know would translate it with: "Der Bucklige von Notre Dame ist ein HÄSSLICHER Mann."
I don't know who told you that, but I can promise you, that everybody would understand you and know what you mean, if you called a person "hässlich". ;)
ViennaVampire 8 months ago
That´s a beautiful song,it was the first one I heard from this musical,the english version one.
queenmedesa 1 year ago