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by Cyrill » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:56 pm

Yes MVS, i am really happy to get the Matterhorn. He is the beautiful mountain in the world. What you think?

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by BigLee » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:21 pm

Digitalis wrote:Yes MVS, i am really happy to get the Matterhorn. He is the beautiful mountain in the world. What you think?


Aren't mountains "she's" not "he's"? (at least they're women in my book)

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by Sebastian Hamm » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:49 pm

Erik S wrote:I think the politically correct expression is now an "it". Even the Royal Navy has stopped calling their ships for she's, now they're just "it". A shame really.


But only in english, in german it belongs to the mountain.

Eiger = he
Matterhorn = it
Dent Blanche = she

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by Cyrill » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:37 pm

In German is different as in English. In (Swiss-) German the most mountains are HE (masculin)

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by Cyrill » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:23 am

Now i have classified the fotos by time.

check : http://www.hikr.org/tour/post3751.html

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by McCannster » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:59 pm

Sehr gute fotos! In ein paar jahre, wolle ich das auch machen.

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by Cy Kaicener » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:32 pm

Congratulations Digitalis (Cyrill). . For me your name is easy to remember :) The pictures were excellent. The empty space under one's feet takes one's breath away. -- Cyril

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by Cyrill » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:02 pm

we are namesake :D cool. you write your name with one L, me with two L

regards Cyrill

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by Luciano136 » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:30 pm

Congrats!!! Very, very nice!!

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by Cyrill » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:34 pm

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