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2007-09-14 Europe

Not-Lutheran arrested in connection with stabbing of Rabbi

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Posted by mrp 2007-09-14 11:25|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 "He felt physically inferior to the rabbi and so reached for his knife,"

Physically inferior? A healthy, young man felt physically inferior to an aging (if I recall correctly) cleric?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-14 12:49|| 2007-09-14 12:49|| Front Page Top

#2 tw, I'm sure that the prosecutor meant "geistlich" rather than "physikalisch". ("Mentally" rather than "physically", for the non-German speakers)

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-09-14 13:30|| 2007-09-14 13:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I have to wonder why the Jews still want to live in Germany. I would have thought that regardless of the contriction and laws against holocaust denial, it is still a rather macbre place to be a Jew.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-09-14 13:49|| 2007-09-14 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 After reading the Associated Press article on the matter, it appears DW garbled the language.

AP excerpt:

The Frankfurt-born German citizen, whose parents come from Afghanistan, maintains that he greeted the rabbi with the words "salem aleikum," or "peace upon you." In their statement, they said that there was then "an exchange of words which ended in a physical confrontation."

The suspect said that he "felt physically inferior to the rabbi and so reached for his knife," they added. The weapon had a 7.6-centimeter (3-inch) blade.

My apologies to the Frankfurt prosecutor's office.

Posted by mrp 2007-09-14 13:55|| 2007-09-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Rambler, I'd always heard geistlich used in a religious sense, as spiritually, ie der Heilige Geist. My Langenscheidts Handwoerterbuch defines it that way as well, although going from English to German, geistlich is given as a translation for mentally.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-14 14:37|| 2007-09-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 tw, I used Altavista's BabelFish translation, since I don't have my German dictionary handy. If you translate geistlich back to English, it gives "religiously".
Although, that would work too....
Someday I'll learn not to trust BabelFish.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-09-14 15:18|| 2007-09-14 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Attack reopens old wounds

I thought for a second the Rabbi had been wounded in a previous knife attack.

Posted by Unique Battle 2007-09-14 16:44|| 2007-09-14 16:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Rambler, that's why, when working with new vocabulary, I always check the back-translation to see if it matches -- very often it doesn't -- and a second dictionary the same. I've gotten into awkward situations using the wrong word in a sentence that sounded like I knew what I was saying.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-14 18:19|| 2007-09-14 18:19|| Front Page Top

#9 If you say: "I love you" while you stab me, does that make the wounds less? Kill him. now

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-14 22:15|| 2007-09-14 22:15|| Front Page Top

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