Word: verdammt
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Yankee Bums. Finally, when a slump hit New York in 1857, the Tribune started cutting back on all foreign coverage. Though kindhearted Editor Dana still gave them hackwork writing jobs. the comrades were convinced that they had been betrayed and exploited: "Diese Yankees sind dock verdammt lausige Kerle [Those Yankees are damned lousy bums]." Marx's last signed dispatch appeared in the Tribune in December...
...translate "Gott strafe England," as "God Damn England." A far more accurate translation would have been: "God punish England," the meaning back of the word "strafe" being that punishment is merited. Had your version been intended the German would have been one of two expressions, "Gott verdammt sei England," or, "Gott verdamme England." There is quite a difference between invoking punishment and invoking damnation...
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