Draug, they both mean "you're welcome." one literally means "of nothing," another literally means "please," ours literally means "you are welcome." It's extremely idiomatic in any language, so it doesn't make all that much sense to make that argument.

Well, bitte means your welcome when joined with schoen bit can be shortened to just bitte. However, the months and months I spent in Germany having to speak the language made it very clear to me that bitten (the plural) never ever refers to some imaginary plural of "you're welcome" but *always* refers to the plural of the only noun form of bitte, which is a plea. You're welcome doesn't have a plural in German.

And let me ask, ghug, have you lived in Germany for the better part of 6 months or more? I had to learn conversational German for the time I was over there working a six month project as an expat for Xomox in Lindau.

"Bitte" auf Deutsch means "please" and "you're welcome". It's kinda like aloha in Hawaiian, it means "hello" and "good bye" and a number of other things from what I understand. But a proper response to the Spanish "gracias" is "de nada" and a proper response to the German "danke" is "bitte"

@draug: stop making shit up. It's an appropriate response to "danke" to say "bitte"

Haben wir nur Deutsches Spielers wem kann das antwortet?

Alright Draug, I thought the prompt was stupid too, but now you're just being an idiot. First, he made it pretty clear what he meant, so you can't use that bullshit reading comprehension excuse that you always use. Second, bitten can be a plural verb form too. Believe it or not, it's not just nouns that have plurals. Third, you gave the definition as "to ask," which, the last time I checked was a verb. Fourth, it's a damn interjection in a language you don't speak. The rules aren't exactly strict. Fifth, living in Germany for SIX WHOLE MONTHS is not really that impressive, but I commend you on your ability to awkwardly attempt to brag about yourself at every opportunity.

/rant

@Phil - Use bitten though. I agree bitter can be please or you're welcome but not bitten. It is a misuse of the word to use the plural of the noun which is literally "to beg" or "to ask for". It would be almost as bad as saying wilkommen for welcome in response to danke.

#nicerant

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Bitte not bitter. stupid autocorrect.

Ghug - I do speak German (or could again with some brushing up as it has been seven years).

And no, I don't think I'm the only German speaking player. Hell, my German is probably the weakest of all the German speaking players here being as I had to take a refresher from High School before going to Germany for the project in 06 and haven't used it regularly since.

Actually, my Russian is better.

Ernts that isn't clever and you are forbidden to participate in the Hink Pink thread from now on. YJ has spoken.

OK not really. Still though, not clever.

Now, the rest of you quit disrupting my awesome thread with lame arguments nobody cares about and instead answer this:

"what would you call a man who makes Nazi figurines out of wood?"

Draug, did you ignore the portion of my rant about nouns? Bitten can be the verb form too.

I'll leave now to go brush up on my Nazi vocabulary.

Oh my God! Did this thread just get Godwined?

Hitler whittler

What do you call hosiery filled with stones

I don't like Hitler whittler. It seems too slantish to me.

You're just jealous.

I actually thought of it, came to ask YJ if it counted even though it sucked, and then saw that you had posted it.

Rocking Stockings?

Close. Think simpler.

rock socks?

What do you call a Pulitizer Prize winning author that runs from a fight?

Rocks socks

DOh! fast posted

Runaway Hemingway?

No, but that is pretty good.

disagreeable sofa

Ooops, thought I had it.