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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4499 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 1 of 5 26 November 2013 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
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The byline for the lead opinion piece on the main web page of FAZ right now ends with
the following sentence: "Vielleicht holt sich schließlich nur Seehofers Abgesandter in Berlin ein blutige Nase." If "ein" is the correct form here according to standard grammar, I am very confused and in need of clarification. Any idea as to why this would be expressed this way, instead of "eine blutige Nase?" If I were to make this sound more like colloquial speech I would say " 'ne blutige Nase," so it doesn't sound like it's colloquialism for poetic effect. Thoughts? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4499 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 2 of 5 26 November 2013 at 11:14pm | IP Logged |
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After posting the question above, I took a look at the piece itself, and quickly scanned
to the bottom, where I saw the final sentence of the piece: "Und wie er sich am Ende womöglich eine blutige Nase holt." As makes sense, but now I am further confused. This seems a bit too obvious to have been a mistake. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5577 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 5 26 November 2013 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
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That should be a typo.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4332 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 4 of 5 27 November 2013 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
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It seems like editors/proofreaders are too expensive to use them for online news. Edited by daegga on 27 November 2013 at 6:31pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5658 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 5 29 November 2013 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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It is "die Nase" so it can only be "eine blutige Nase" because "ein" refers to masculinum and neutrum.
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