Question by Brian: German Translation to English help?
Alright I need someone who is an expert not a machine on the internet.

Translate this:

“Hey everyone my name is Adnan Omeragic. I’m 16 years old and I come from Urbandale, IA. I have a few photos here up with me to show you my family. This is my father. He is 45 years old who is married to my 38 year old mother who had me and my 11 year old brother. I have a large family in Europe but here in USA it’s small compared to Europe. What I like to do in my free time is listen to music which is 60′s to 80′s and to be with friends actively. I like the summer and glad that the dreaded winter is over, and also can’t wait until I have my spring break because, like most of you, I’m tired of school and need this vacation.”

Thanks or I mean danke schon!
haha

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Answer by Collielimabean
Here’s a very, very rough translation from my brain.

Hallo jedermann, meine Name ist Adnan Omeragic. Ich bin sechzehn Jahre alt und ich komme aus Urbandale, IA. Ich habe wenige Fotos hier mit mir, dass ich meine Familie schaue. Hier ist mein Vater. Er ist fuenfundfuenfzig Jahre alt wer ist verheiratet mit meiner Mutter. Dann, meine Mutter gebar mich und meinen Bruder, wer ist elf Jahre alt. Ich have eine grosse Familie in Europa aber hier, meine Familie ist sehr klein neben meinen Familien in Europa.

Goodness gracious. I can’t do anymore; the sentence structure is too complex.

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Question by college grad: am i really being selfish..i can tell i am hurting people’s feeling..can someone send me their honest feedback?
when i went to new york in 2007, my cousin from india asked me about my vacation time..i was honest and told him i have a month and a half off for Christmas Vacation and 2 months off for summer vacation then out of nowhere he started persuading me to visit india..he asked me a numerous number of times..the day before he went back to india, he said the best time to visit india is in december..later in november of that year, my sister went to india. my cousin asked me to send him her contact info..when i did that, he replied “hope you guys are able to come with her. cheeeerrrrrsssss” . i never replied saying i was or i wasnt coming..the day my sister went arrived in india, my cousin called me and said “we thought we’d be seeing you as well, then i told him i got busy then his reply was “omg! everyone is busy. then said we’ll see when you have vacation.” in june 2008, he came to visit me with his wife and 2 kids for a week. the very first thing he asked me was what i am doing that i am busy all the time..i told him and he was able to tell i was making excuses..after they went back to india, i made it up to him by remembering him for some occassions..when i wrote to him for diwali, he replied, “thanks for remembering us. cheeerrs” then he called me. this year, i couldnt call them but i was remembering them so i sent him a few emails..my mom’s brother came to visit me for three weeks..the week my uncle was here, my cousin was in germany..my cousin called me only for an update on his papa..i have a feeling that since i didnt call my cousin this year, he no longer wishes to talk to me and now he is pretending to be busy..can someone send me their honest opinion..to tell you the truth, my mom doesnt allow me to call her brother because they dont call us..am i really being selfish..when i have vacation, the only thing i do is visit my dad in sfo which i feel uncomfortable..he has two roommates and when i go there, i have to share the bathroom with two guys..my mom did say she cant send me to my dad’s like that..since the economy is down, 55% of my classes at my college have been cut and they’re raising tution this year..i cant seem to find a job..my mom is at risk of losing her job and she made plans to go to europe this year..what can i do..can someone provide me with some advice..
my mom is mad at me because i cant find a job..i submitted my resume to at least 200 places and had only 1 interview and was told i would know by the end of the week..my mom says submitting my resume isnt enough..what am i doing wrong..i wanted to work after my vacation started but i knew i wouldnt be able to do because of my mom’s brother visiting..it would be hard to work for a week then ask for some time off..which is why i couldnt work..please help me
these days my life is depressing..none of my friends answer or return my calls..everyone is into their families these days..

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Answer by pari
well happens when you suffer a downfall you don’t get proper responses from anywhere.. this is hard patch of your life..every one will seem to be mad at you… but you don’t lose hope try submitting resumes and also think of some other options too… and for cousins time… send him a e mail that you have to search a job and with your relatives visiting you cant get to call him… good if he understands… otherwise you cant really do anything…

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Me and my wife visit London(UK), St.Petersburg(Russia) and Riga(Latvia).

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Question by Anayevska: Describe him in one word:?
1.- He called and asked for divorce while I was visiting my family, a and day after posting “stand by me” in my facebook (then he said it was a good bye song… “stand by me” a good bye song! OMG how stupid can that be

2.- I got home and my things were already in boxes. He and his mother took care of that. They took everything out of my closet and threw it, again, while I was on “vacation” visiting my family.

3.- He dropped me at the airport, a day before my flight, left my suitcases in the sidewalk, kissed me goodbye (forehead) and left

4.- He smoked marihuana for 7 years, and then became addicted to beer

5.- He is a World of Warcraft (computer game) fan and spends most of his time playing there or doing anything else in the computer

6.- I got him an interview for a job, he got the job (director position) and then he ditched me thinking he can do better than me, and that I never helped him at all

7.- We married, moved to Europe and NEVER EVER went anywhere because he “was always tired”

8.- I am allergic to cats and I had to live with 4 of them, he wouldnt get rid of them (I like cats though)

9.- He lives with his parents… we lived on the floor above them and he still lives there.. BTW he is 29

10.- He broke up with his ex-girlfriend after 7 years, met me and married me, then send me on vacation and went back to her after him and his family talking nasty things about her

11.- When he packed my things for me, he also packed his new girlfriend´s underwear (thongs) next to mine

12.- He said he will only support me (after I quited my job) with a minimum amount per month, and upon proof of me applying to jobs

13.- He made me choose between one month of this money he will send, or him sending the rest of my suitcases

14.- HIs parents covered for him while he was f.0.kng his ex in our house

I know the word that best describes me: STUPID for getting married to such a guy

How would you describe, in one word, him?

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Answer by primalclaws1974
Screwed (for getting with you)

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Question by Laura Lofgren: Is it ok to travel a bit while you’re young before settling with a job?
Hi
I’ve just turned 23. For the past year since graduating from college, I have worked as a waitress in my home town, saving money and then traveling to different countries. I have been to Peru, Mexico, and Europe and the experiences have, I think, been really good for me.
However, now I’ve been getting a lot of social pressure to settle down and get a “real job” in my major (Media Arts and Design) and stop “playing around.”
The worst of it comes from my parents: when are you going to get a real job? or are you going to be a waitress for your whole life?
But even my fellow waiters, who are of course waiters themselves, wonder what I’m doing with my life. Why am I still a waitress when I have so much more potential? Everyone seems to think of traveling as just “playing” or “vacation.”
And there’s a part of me that believes it, too…

But my main traveling goal is to go to Asia and volunteer and travel for many months.
I was wanting to go this winter, but if I go, everyone will think I’m stupid, and even worse, I will feel guilty for “playing.” What if I come back and I can’t find a job because I wasted too much time? Maybe I could go another time in my life?

What should I do?

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Answer by Californiamama
You have to go! Make this trip a little different by documenting and journaling the entire thing and offer it to a magazine for publication. If nothing else, start a blog so everyone gets a first hand experience along with you. Hopefully you can get a signal. Have fun. Jobs will be easier to get later anyway as the economy improves.

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Question by Jake: I acted crazy is there a fix?
Well i have been dealing with a breakup and i finally talked to her a little bit yesterday about it. heres the deal. im on vaction in europe while she is in america. i got to europe and i started acting crazy, i would call to much when she didnt answer and id call way to many times! (i once called 30 times because she kept on saying “call me back in one hour” and i would and i just got frustrated because it would happen again because she was keeping busy unlike me and me knowing i had unlimited long distance calling i would just call redial call redial) and i would always send emails too but only after all the calling because i would apologize if i called more than twice and the day i called about 30 times was just abosolutely crazy on my part and i felt like a clingy asshole. i was acting crazy as hell and i admit it.

ive never acted like that in my whole life it was just we spent so much time together the week before i left. it was hard to be 6 hours apart and wondering what she was doing everyday. i took the wrong approach and i never realized it until after i would send and call her. i had a touch of crazy and i wish i could fix what i did. because i know im not that way. it was just the situtation was so difficut for me because my “vacation” consisted of me sitting at my dads house all day waiting for our trip to rome in 3 weeks. but i know whats been done is done and taking it back is next to impossible but i want a “forgive and forget” from her.

is there anything i could say besides im sorry and i know it wasnt acting like me. when i was there in the US with her i could go 2 days without talking to her until she talk to me and i was fine. it was just when i got to germany i know i couldnt see her for a long time and i just wanted to act like i wasnt really there by always being there, i care for her so much but i showed in the worst way possible.

if i cant fix this i wont be to sad because i would know i brought it all upon myself and i would understand if fully and would never do it again to anyone else because this was a learning experience but i would like her to stay with me and understand that i know what i did and it would never happen again.
is there any fix for me?

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Answer by soccerchica!
dude. stop whining and move on.

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My bass trombones working vacation through Switzerland, Austria, and then sightseeing in Romania and Italy.

This is almost more of a short compilation of the video i shot in Europe over the 3 weeks we spent there. It was spectacular. I liked the end result of this one as well, though it is a tad longer. It was a kick editing this one. Boyers! Watchie please.
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Question by pachl@sbcglobal.net: Good comedies from last three – four years?
I’ve been out of the U.S. for much of the last three years, and I know I’ve missed a lot of movies I will now try to rent. But keep this in mind: I’m still in Europe, so the movies you recommend can not be small, “art house” indy films.

I’m looking mainly for comedies. To give you a sample of my taste, I loved “Blast From the Past” with Brendon Frasier, and “Music and Lyrics” (Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant…. surprisingly I thought I hated Hugh Grant until this movie).

On the flip side, I hate the comedies with idiotic pratfalls and most of the black comedies that rely on lame sight gags really low-brow humor. Hence, I would hate a movie like Eddie Murphy’s “Nutty Professor II, the Klumps”.

But that doesn’t mean that dopey is always bad. I loved “Euro Trip” with Scott Mechlowicz , but hated “European Vacation” with Chevy Chase.

Hope you got the picture, and can recommend a few. Thanks!

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Answer by smokey11590
anything adam sandler

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Question by Universal Standard: Opening up to my gf at couples therapy?
So recently, I’ve hooked up again with my ex-gf from my first years of college (like 10 years ago?) and we’re really trying to make this work, she’s given up her choice of drugs, coke and crystal and I’ve given up smoking pot and drinking, we even go to couples therapy now. Apparently, the therapist wants us to share what we’ve been up to for the past ten years to bring us closer and I really want to tell her everything, but back when we were dating, she was pretty conservative, I mean sex in dark and missionary only conservative, and now she used to do drugs like it was going out of style, so I know shes changed but I’m not sure it’s enough to share all the shit I’ve done during my 20′s. So I’ll gonna list some stuff here and just tell me if I should keep any of it from my gf so she doesn’t leave or worse relapse into tina (crystal). I trust you guys since I used to hang here and you seem pretty normal, plus u don’t know me which is a bonus because I really wouldn’t share this with my closest friends in fear of a loss of our friendship over disgust.

1) Back when 9/11 happened I signed on to the marines because I was a “brown person” and I wanted to prove I wasn’t a terrorist (stupid right?) which was especially hard in NYC.
2) I’ve killed anywhere between 5 to 25 people, most were college kids from Syria who considered themselves “freedom fighters” and came to Iraq to help the Taliban and such.
3) I once knifed a guy in the arm and then in the neck when he tried to ambush me in the top of the stairs in a building, I felt nothing when I killed him, it haunts me to this day not because it was a bad thing or how bloody it was, but because I felt nothing when I killed him, no regret, no satisfaction, no fear, no remorse, nothing at all.
4) I bummed around Europe on a Gizzer 750 for 4 months afterward, I’ve traveled through all of Europe, but I’ve never done any touristy things, I didn’t even talk to anyone there, just rode.
5) I’ve slept with anywhere between 25 and 45 hookers in Amsterdam over the course of 9 weeks, I was high or drunk the entire time and went on this “vacation” with my best friend from High School.
6) Whenever I have nightmares about Iraq or a panic attack when I see a gun or a middle eastern male, I take some xanax or smoke some pot, neither were prescribed to me.
7) I haven’t seen my parents since I was 18, (I told her I was an orphan), they weren’t bad people, just too normal for me, I wanted to be “wild and outlandish, different” so I left for NYU and worked for tuition. I once banged a post-op transvestite when we were dating, I was really drunk so I don’t remember it but it happened.
9) I was a carny for 1 season, I did more drugs in those few months then all of the rest of my life put together.
10) I can’t see myself ever having a family with you, I love you but I’ll never have kids.
11) A girl I once banged and got pregnant had an abortion because she was about to undergo chemo for malignant breast cancer, my “daughter” was 22 weeks old.
12) I was once in a cult, right after the marines, it was the only time that I felt that I belonged.
13) I did work for a private military company for a while, it wasn’t particularly eventful but I hoped I would die every day I got into that truck, just put me out of my fucken misery and end all the bullshit I had immersed myself in.
14) I’ve wanted to marry you since the day I met you, and felt that my purpose in life ended when we broke up.

I know these are fucked up but these are some of the large ones I want to get off my chest, some make sense, others don’t but I find relevance in all of them and I want it to be known.

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Answer by Nick I
Thanks for fighting for the country even if you thought it was a dumb idea after the fact.

However I am not a big fan of marriage or couples therapy. You can meet someone that you’ll get along with and not need therapy.

If you’re at the therapy stage, time to move on because it’s never going to work.. face it, by that point you hate and resent each other and always will.

So go find a person that you are actually compatible with. Yeah it might take a few people to find the right one, but chalk them all up to life experiences that make you a better person

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Question by autumn: More opinions please.?
I have taken a recent interest in writing and I can’t decide which Idea to persue so here they are. Tell me which one you like best and why, or just comment on them I don’t care

Idea One: Escape to Mars

In this one Earth must evacuate to mars with only few people staying to keep it runing. (Idk why yet) but a girl and her family have book a flight to mars. on the way people are in complete and utter chaos. she races to catch up to her family when she gets knock out and wakes up a day later some place strange. there she finds out that her family was forced to leave her behind do to guards ordering and shoving them about. one day she finally makes it to mars and is a refugee. a young lady gives her hospitality to her and she lives there. (several years after she was left behind.) she tells the young women of how she was forgotten by her family and is determind to find them. later she finds out that the women she stayed with was her sister who was a very young girl when they left earth and fnever knew she had a sister. her father is dead, her brother is a grown man and has wife and kids. her mother has been in a mental institution ever since they left her daughter behind and went crazy.

Idea Two: The Reader

This one is about a girl in the 1800′s and lives in Europe with her family. They decide to take a “vacation” which she knows is a set up by her match maker to meet a young man and his family that hopefully her father approves up. the main character does not believe in match making and she wants true love. well they travel to a country where she falls in love with a man that tricks her into running away with him. later she signs “wedding papers” which turns out to be ownership parpers. she is taken into slavery/ prostitution where she refuses to eat or do anything while the travel in a wagon where she is chain so she can’t escape. they come to a city where a women buys here as a servent to work in a castle for a count. she makes friends and encouraged by the head servent to keep reading “she loves reding and knowledge” eventually she gets out of here debt and finds out she is far far away from home. now she works at the castle to try and earn enough money to buy her way back home. out of all her years there she has never met the count until he needs a new reader. the lead srvent women mentions the girl’s name and she is imeditaly washed and given fancier clothers for her evening with the count. she sits on the floor by the fire and is told to read to the count. (she still can’t see him) well eventually he warms up to her because at first he heartless. and he tells her of how his wife died and things of that such. well they get into an argument one day when she is reading to him and she leaves. he comes after her but she falls and gets hurt badly. finally when she awakes he confess his love to her. but she knows she could never marry him. for her place is not there but with her family. so she turns him around and makes him a better person but he will always love he says has she gets into a carraige and starts making the long journey back home. few years later after she gets back home she recieves word that the count is very ill and has asked for her presence where the meet and gets married before he dies. and as it turns out she is pregnant with his child and dies before he knew. so she raises the child in the castle and she leads the towns in his place.

thats all i have so be truthfull and tell me what to do and what you think.
15 minutes ago – 4 days left to answer.
Additional Details
i know mars is unrealistic, it’s a book. and i realize that i have grammatical errors but it’s and idea i need advice about so i did it quick. It’s much better on paper.
5 minutes ago

she was sold into slavery but when she paid her debt in work, she started work at the castle to get money to travel back home.
3 minutes ago

and finally these are all just ideas. i know they need more work but its what i got so far.

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Answer by Will
Escape to mars is alright though there are major plot holes, one is that mars is somehow supporting six billion people (I mean how they don’t have water, oxygen, or food), another thing is if your kid was left behind you would tell your children the story as they got older so the girl who was little would realize it is her sister. And first of all The Reader is already a title for a book that even shares some plot points with your story. I personally thought your second story was very cliche, bland, and boring. I would stay away from the second idea but the first idea, escape to mars, seemed below par but still good enough.

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