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...punish him. That's an interesting concept, could you speak a little bit about that? I had just done this hideous radio interview in Berlin for German public radio. At one point, I meant to say "Sieht so aus als haettest du all dein Deutsch vergessen," which means "I guess I've forgotten so much German." Only I misconjugated the verb vergessen to vergast, and when I came out of the interview, the publicist was a furious with me. Vergast is the past tense of the verb "to gas people to death." I even said Deutsch wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

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