Thread:PDXBlazer/@comment-7624386-20130403034900

Inserting corrections to errors is not “inserting nonsense/gibberish”, nor is it “unneeded,” nor do you get to substitute your judgment for mine. And as for being “told not to,” I never received any such notice at the email address I supplied for my account. It is reasonable to expect than any and all notices concerning the account be delivered to that email address. I only discovered your alleged “reasons” for blocking me after several emails with customer support.

Your claim that “Fuchsteufelwild" is German for “raving mad” was incorrect, for several reasons:

1) “Fuchsteufelwild” is used in the show as a noun. But “raving mad” is an adjectival expression.

2) “Fuchsteufelwild” is, in fact, a mispelling* of the German adjective "fuchsteufelswild”, which literally means something like “fox devil’s wild” or “fox devil’s ferocious”, but is best translated as “mad as hell.”

3) “Mad as hell” is not the same as “raving mad.” The former connotes extreme anger. The latter connotes insanity. Duden’s German dictionary demonstrates the correct usage with the following example: “Er wurde fuchsteufelswild, als er das hoerte.” (He was mad as hell when he heard this.)

* You claimed ‘it's not a "misspelling" they combined 3 words on purpose.’ Are you seriously suggesting that the writers spontaneously came up with the idea to combine the German words for fox, devil and wild “on purpose”, and that by pure chance, those words just happen form a real German word, minus one letter? A more likely explanation is that they observed that the creature was “very angry”, then found “fuchsteufelswild” in a dictionary that gives German equivalents for English expressions, but accidentally dropped the 2nd “s” in final production. -brach  