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Ah ok, that kind of lager!

by ciarcode 3y ago

bowsamic 3y ago
I think this is the only meaning of lager in English
- airstrike 3y ago
  "lager beer" in title would be more appropriate, IMOHO
watwut 3y ago
Lol, I associated it with a prison too.
- MoSattler 3y ago
  "Camp" is a more accurate translation, which gives the title a bit of a different connotation...
  - watwut 3y ago
    In Russian, Czech or Slovak, I have never ever seen or heard it being used in the context of an innocent camp. It just means bad kind of prison and sometimes military barracks - when you want to imply you don't like those military barracks. I do not know how in German.
    - MoSattler 3y ago
      you can see it in the German word for concentration camp: KonzentrationsLAGER.
    - sologoub 3y ago
      Summer camp? https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь When лагерь is used by itself, it depends on context - could be a prison/labor camp, kids summer camp, a historical military reference to an army camping on a campaign, or even a refugee camp or a tourist camp. Not that different from English “camp” really. Russian also borrowed lager bier in “лагер” (without the softening “ь”), whereas Czech and Slovak have native words for it (ležák/ležiak) with a similar (if not greater) complexity in styles to Germany.
soco 3y ago
Tell me you don't drink beer without telling me you don't drink beer.
- FredPret 3y ago
  To misunderstand this word, OP probably speaks German, which means statistically they probably drink more beer than you.
  - schroeding 3y ago
    Doesn't help that "Lager" is not used as much for beer in Germany, at least in the regions I know. Such beer is instead often classified as "Untergärig", from "untergärige Hefe" => "bottom-fermenting yeast"
    - soco 3y ago
      Nobody I know orders their beer "ein Untergärig bitte" (Switzerland here). Although not THE name, still everybody knows what a Lager is (as in, whether they want a helles or dunkles). Yes of course there's the camp meaning as well, but you wouldn't mix that up in a Kneipe. Only when you read just a random internet article and you have zero context to know which is which - even though this phrasing would be really weird if it referred to a camp (for me, non-native English speaker).
      - schroeding 3y ago
        Yeah, Lager inside a Kneipe / Wirtshaus is obviously meant in the "category of beer" way. At least here in Bavaria, it would just be "ein Helles" (or "ein Dunkles"). :D Regional differences between Bavaria and Switzerland may show here. As an example of "Untergärig" used instead of Lager: https://www.giesinger-shop.de/zum-trinken/9-giesinger-erhellung-1805l.html https://www.giesinger-shop.de/zum-trinken/9-giesinger-erhell...
        phillc73 3y ago

Ah ok, that kind of lager!

bowsamic 3y ago

I think this is the only meaning of lager in English

airstrike 3y ago
"lager beer" in title would be more appropriate, IMOHO

watwut 3y ago

Lol, I associated it with a prison too.

MoSattler 3y ago
"Camp" is a more accurate translation, which gives the title a bit of a different connotation...
- watwut 3y ago
  In Russian, Czech or Slovak, I have never ever seen or heard it being used in the context of an innocent camp. It just means bad kind of prison and sometimes military barracks - when you want to imply you don't like those military barracks. I do not know how in German.
  - MoSattler 3y ago
    you can see it in the German word for concentration camp: KonzentrationsLAGER.
  - sologoub 3y ago
    Summer camp? https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь When лагерь is used by itself, it depends on context - could be a prison/labor camp, kids summer camp, a historical military reference to an army camping on a campaign, or even a refugee camp or a tourist camp. Not that different from English “camp” really. Russian also borrowed lager bier in “лагер” (without the softening “ь”), whereas Czech and Slovak have native words for it (ležák/ležiak) with a similar (if not greater) complexity in styles to Germany.

soco 3y ago

Tell me you don't drink beer without telling me you don't drink beer.

FredPret 3y ago
To misunderstand this word, OP probably speaks German, which means statistically they probably drink more beer than you.
- schroeding 3y ago
  Doesn't help that "Lager" is not used as much for beer in Germany, at least in the regions I know. Such beer is instead often classified as "Untergärig", from "untergärige Hefe" => "bottom-fermenting yeast"
  - soco 3y ago
    Nobody I know orders their beer "ein Untergärig bitte" (Switzerland here). Although not THE name, still everybody knows what a Lager is (as in, whether they want a helles or dunkles). Yes of course there's the camp meaning as well, but you wouldn't mix that up in a Kneipe. Only when you read just a random internet article and you have zero context to know which is which - even though this phrasing would be really weird if it referred to a camp (for me, non-native English speaker).
    - schroeding 3y ago
      Yeah, Lager inside a Kneipe / Wirtshaus is obviously meant in the "category of beer" way. At least here in Bavaria, it would just be "ein Helles" (or "ein Dunkles"). :D Regional differences between Bavaria and Switzerland may show here. As an example of "Untergärig" used instead of Lager: https://www.giesinger-shop.de/zum-trinken/9-giesinger-erhellung-1805l.html https://www.giesinger-shop.de/zum-trinken/9-giesinger-erhell...
      - phillc73 3y ago