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Old 03-20-2016, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by memason View Post
Well, I know a native German speaker and I had them read the entire article.

They shared with me that the article has very negative undertone to it and there are overt references to the Morse family that wasn't even remotely flattering.

Overall, the article is not flattering to The Villages...more like Leisureville.

For instance, the subtitle of the article says:

The Villages "has more than 100,000 inhabitants, and only old.
A trip to Florida - in a city full of golf, sex and life. And without Cemetery

It goes downhill from there.....
I did get that from my limited German as well. I can only understand maybe 3 in 5 words and that includes contextual guessing.

I have two years of college German and a Course in Reading German for Graduate Students. The latter was taken at the U of MN where they had many such language courses. You do have to use it or lose it unless you are a native speaker or some gift for languages.

The link is probably all you can do because of international copyright laws. You can give an abstract of the article in English though.