A Swiss International Airlines Landing?

Question

A Swiss Airlines flight attendant makes the following announcement:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if I may beg your attention, we are about to begin our descent for landing. Please be so kind as to fasten your seat belts. Thank you so much for your co-operation."

Then, as is customary, she repeats the announcement in French and in Italian, almost word-for-word translations of the English.

And then, the announcement in German: "ACHTUNG! ANSCHNALLEN!" (Attention! Buckle up!)

Answer 1

Wait a minute: "Achtung! Anschnallen!" sounds more like "Lufthansa language"! Swiss Airlines use the little word "Bitte ..."!

Comments

Maybe the flight attendant had just switched employers from Lufthansa to Swiss Airlines and hadn't yet been sufficiently trained. Or maybe old habits just die hard. 

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Lol - maybe that she is/was a pure-bred Prussian - if referring to your "description" - and some "old habits" die hard indeed.

(Anyway, we have many Germans here - with the Italians, of course - all over the country; some are nice, some arrogant, etc. - a bit of everything, like for any origin, nationality or group).

Let's say that this is a kind of biodiversity in society.

Answer 2

O'Tink, I loved your joke...and then, was thinking about WHY we all know immediately how it is funny...quite moving...

I cannot find a reliable reference right now so not totally certain of these facts, but I read once that Alice Miller (1923-2010, THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD) was one of several psychologists/psychoanalysts who, after WWII, attempted to discern from a psychological viewpoint how Nazism could get away with as much as it did...she herself being of Polish-Jewish heritage...

The nearest I could find was this, from Wikipedia: "According to Alice Miller, worldwide violence has its roots in the fact that children are beaten all over the world, especially during their first years of life, when their brains become structured."

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Anyway, you posted a joke and I got kinda heavy here...

Comments

@ Virginia,

It's very hard to say what was at the root of it, for one thing because different parts of Germany were quite different, the martial spirit being strongest in Prussia, for what I think were primarily geographical reasons, being in the midst of the routes over which armies from east and west fought. The Bavarians were much more easy-going, and indeed didn't like the Prussians much, regarding them as arrogant and rigid, which they were.

And then there were historical events and plain bad luck. How somebody like Hitler could ever have become dictator is little short of a nightmare miracle. I saw in one of his speeches on YouTube where he boasted about how he came to power despite having started out with nothing, no formal education, no money, no family, no business contacts, no powerful friends, "ueberhaupt nichts," nothing at all.

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...@ Other Tink...

...and co-existing with the tremendous artistic-scientific-cultural achievements, as the martial spirit did in that part of Europe, which has been amazing to me...I am smiling as I write this, wondering if you perhaps might have thoughts there also?

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...btw, different topic, I spent some time on Bell's inequality this evening...absolutely remarkable!

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@ Virginia,

Yes, that paradox was considered in The Third Man.

And yes, about Bell, Nature herself seems not to know what will happen next on a quantum level.

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T(h)ink and Virginia:

I can't resist; we talked about Gershwin's poignant music, and this very different, seemingly simple, rather cheerful sound uncovers suddenly a tragic undertone.

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...the cuckoo clock! Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten...

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Marianne, that tragic undertone you mention might be my doing, here...I seem to be in a rather existential mood over these last months, maybe even a year or more...seeing the underlying tragedies in everything...such heart-rending dimensions of life.

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Yes, Virginia, there were many things which caused an uneasy feeling, when we were young, but we couldn't explain that. But with experience and improved knowledge, quite a few hidden aspects reveal formerly unseen depths and also the unhealthy, unsustainable challenges, which are some of the main causes of disasters, unfair conditions and health issues.

Answer 3

Tink! Luckily it wasn't the Luftwaffe instead of SwissAir or Lufthansa.  

Comments

@ Rooster,

Lol, I'm sure exactly that sort of command was given to German paratroopers just before a drop.

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@Rooster

Lol - indeed.

Just a little correction (like Think does usually): Lufthansa is correct, but Swiss International Air Lines took over (sigh: R.I.P. Swissair):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_International_Air_Lines