"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Robert Perkins wrote:

It's a kindness good hearted Germans usually extend to good hearted
visiting foreigners, in my experience, especially the ones that show
solidarity with them.

I found that to be the case when I visited Bavaria. I well remember trying
to
find the tour bus in Bayreuth. My brother and I were half lost, so I
stopped a
young lady in a business suit (how they negotiate cobbled streets in 4"
heels
is beyond me). I excused myself and said in my atrocious accent "Wo ist
die
neuer schloss?"

There are at least three grammatical errors in those five words. Her
eyebrows
went up in astonishment at the butchery I was doing to her language. She
started
to smile, realized that that would be rude, and wiped it away, and then
politely
told me (as near as I can tell) to continue another block, turn left, and
it
would be on the right. I thanked her and we followed her directions. Found
the
bus too.

Should have said "Wo bis der Bahnhof".