Brief Deutsch geekery

I'm watching Bundesliga matches on streaming internet video sites. Even if I find a feed in English, I won't watch it, because it feels wrong to watch in a language other than German. Listening to the commentary reminds me of one of my favorite things about German.

You can take the prefix ver- and put it in front of a verb and make it connote that they fucked up.

schießen (to shoot); verschießen (to miss the shot)
schenken (to give as a gift); verschenken (to give away, as in an opportunity; also used in context of points on an exam: ich hab 10 Punkte verschenkt.)
spielen (to play); verspielen (to miss a play, to play badly)
laufen (to run); verlaufen (to be lost)

Note: not all verbs beginning with ver- carry this connotation. Of course, all the ones I'm thinking of ottomh aren't positive: verlieren (to lose), vergessen (to forget).

Submitted: Valkyrie One

Now we play the waiting game. According to the reply from the editor, it may be a while, because they're finishing up another anthology right now. Hopefully not too long a while...

*nerves*

PS: Thanks to everyone who helped me edit this thing! <3

Club football! (aka C bores everyone to death)

Woo!

So, the Bundesliga is played on 34 match days. Each match day has 9 matches, between the 18 teams. Then there's the 2nd Bundesliga, which also has match days with 9 matches, between the 18 teams.

Then there's the DFB-Pokal (DFB Cup), which every DFB team, from 1st BuLi to the amateur 5th league clubs, plays, apparently at random draws.

That's not even getting into the other national leagues or the Champions League. There's a damn lot of football out there!

So I'm trying to make a decision about which team to follow. I have it narrowed down to Werder Bremen and VfL Wolfsburg in the 1st league and Hertha Berlin in the 2nd. But since Werder and Wolfsburg are playing at the same time next Saturday, I can't watch both matches and see whose play I prefer. (Though based on this week, I'm not impressed with Werder, but it was just the first match. The next one might be better.

It's a very strange thing, picking a team. Apparently you just know which team is yours, and I can certainly believe that. That's how I know the German team is mine at WM time. (And I can't just, like, say "OK, these players I like on the MNT play for this team, so I'll follow them," because that team is FC Bayern, and, well, fuck the Yankees.)

I hope I can figure it out soon. There's not enough time in the day to keep up with three teams.