Comments on: Schon vorgeglüht?

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:16:37 +0000

Seeing that ‘Vorgluehen’ brings to mind starting a fire (which will be the party) how about something like “Igniting”, “Flinting it” or “Petrolising”?

Guys, we should get flinted before we go! Yea bro, lets ignite!

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:09:41 +0000

In the same vein as ‘warm-up’ I would add the phrase “to do some stretches” .

By: philipp

philipp — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:24:24 +0000

hey, i agree with ann, the warm-up term seems reasonable, but i guess miss v’s intention was to show that there wasn’t such a thing as a literal translation and even finding an appropriate term was difficult.

By: 42317

42317 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:21:44 +0000

I have never in my life heard the term “vorglühen” – such practice is not part of my social environment. We have always been fans of “after parties” though.

By: ann

ann — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:52:18 +0000

What about “warming up” before a party? It’s not a standard expression, but used in context I would know what one meant. I have also heard starting the party before the party described as getting “lubricated” = easing the difficulty of social interaction.

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:05:42 +0000

Okay, Leo hat auch einige schöne begriffe. Vorglühen aus dem technischen Bereich:

prehead

Irgendwie passt das Ansonsten gefallen mit die amerikanische umganssprachlichen Begriffe da.

Egal. Anderes Wort für “pre” … und dann einfach zwei schöne verbinden

Gruß

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:04:56 +0000

@ Philipp. Coole Liste. Ich habe das gleich mal auf bab.la eingetragen.

http://bab.la/woerterbuch/deutsch-englisch/besoffen+sein.html

Da gibt’s auch noch viel mehr Übersetzungen, hätte nie gedacht, dass das so viele sind. Krass.

By: Philipp

Philipp — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:04:34 +0000

Hello,
also für besoffen sein:
to be pissed
to be stoned (in verbind. mit anderen drogen)
to be wasted
to be fucked/screwed
to booze (für saufen)
to be shit-faced (i learned that one frm a kiwi)
… and mannnnnnny mannnnnyyyy more!

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:50:01 +0000

Welche umgangssprachliche Begriffe gibt es denn für “Besoffen sein” in England?

By: Philipp

Philipp — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:28:33 +0000

I’m glad an English native who’s familiar with the German/Austrian (vorglühen – it’s Austrian German, too) language gets to pick up a hard-to-translate-word.

Preppin’ the oven – follwing the pre-heating symbolic way, but oh no, oh no, this is taking us down another road LOL

WELL, I give up. I know the term pre-game, but I am not sure if Brits and their derivatives have a word for something that is as cool as Vorglühen…