German language not romantic/Mosley spricht Deutsch
am 08.07.2008 von Transblawg
Max Mosley is suing the News of the World for breach of privacy. They clandestinely filmed him in a sado-masochistic party.
Mosley denies that it had a Nazi theme.
However, it has come out that he was speaking German, also referred to as cod German.
The Scotsman reports:
MOTOR racing chief Max Mosley told the High Court that he spoke German during a sado-masochistic session with five women because the harsh-sounding language suited his dominant role. ... He said that the role-play prison scenario, which is at the centre of his breach of privacy action against the News of the World, involved him and woman B, a fellow German speaker, being dominant to submissive characters who could not understand them.
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German also somehow sounds appropriate for a bossy dominant character. It is a harsh-sounding – rather than a romantic – language.
One wonders what his German sounded like:
He said that …
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Max Mosley: German language suited sex game - MOTOR racing chief Max Mosley told the High Court that he spoke German during a sado-masochistic session with five women because the "harsh-sounding" language suited his dominant role.
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