Ever met your doppelgänger?

Ever met your doppelgänger?

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A doppelgänger (pronunciation (help·info)) is the ghostly double of a living person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German, written there (as any noun) with an initial capital letter Doppelgänger, composed from doppel, meaning "double", and gänger, as "walker". In English, the word is conventionally not capitalized, and it is also common to drop the German diacritic umlaut on the letter "a" and write "doppelganger", although the correct spelling without umlaut would be "doppelgaenger".

The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double or look-alike of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation. Alternatively, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your own image out of the corner of your eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. A doppelgänger seen by friends or relatives of a person may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching illness or health problem.

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Mine is very good-looking, but he lacks my charm.

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I dont like when mine read above my shoulders when I post. Its irritating!

Zellulärer Automat

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Originally posted by Palynka
Mine is very good-looking, but he lacks my charm.
I'm not sure which one of us wrote this sentence.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I'm not sure which one of us wrote this sentence.
watch your back

I mean: now!

Zellulärer Automat

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Originally posted by Jee
watch your back

I mean: now!
An old woman rubbed whiskey on her husband's back to cure him of the pain but he broke his neck trying to lick it off.

Reader's Digest Humour never washes off.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
An old woman rubbed whiskey on her husband's back to cure him of the pain but he broke his neck trying to lick it off.

Reader's Digest Humour never washes off.
True. I still feel dirty.

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Der Doppelgänger

Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen,
In diesem Hause wohnte mein Schatz;
Sie hat schon längst die Stadt verlassen,
Doch steht noch das Haus auf demselben Platz.

Da steht auch ein Mensch und starrt in die Höhe
Und ringt die Hände vor Schmerzensgewalt;
Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe -
Der Mond zeigt mir meine eigne Gestalt.

Du Doppelgänger, du bleicher Geselle!
Was äffst du nach mein Liebesleid,
Das mich gequält auf dieser Stelle
So manche Nacht, in alter Zeit?

(Heinrich Heine)

An English translation: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7479
Another one: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25836

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Der Doppelgänger

Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen,
In diesem Hause wohnte mein Schatz;
Sie hat schon längst die Stadt verlassen,
Doch steht noch das Haus auf demselben Platz.

Da steht auch ein Mensch und starrt in die Höhe
Und ringt die Hände vor Schmerzensgewalt;
Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe -
Der Mond zeigt mir meine ...[text shortened]... et_text.html?TextId=7479
Another one: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25836
Quatsch! 😉

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Originally posted by Jee
A doppelgänger (pronunciation (help·info)) is the ghostly double of a living person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German, written there (as any noun) with an initial capital letter Doppelgänger, composed from doppel, meaning "double", and gänger, as "walker". In English, the word is conventionally not capitalized, and it is also common to drop the Ge ...[text shortened]... n may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching illness or health problem.
In some mythologies, seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
Another reason I avoid mirrors.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Der Doppelgänger

Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen,
In diesem Hause wohnte mein Schatz;
Sie hat schon längst die Stadt verlassen,
Doch steht noch das Haus auf demselben Platz.

Da steht auch ein Mensch und starrt in die Höhe
Und ringt die Hände vor Schmerzensgewalt;
Mir graust es, wenn ich sein Antlitz sehe -
Der Mond zeigt mir meine ...[text shortened]... et_text.html?TextId=7479
Another one: http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25836
[Die] Winterreise!

Haunting piece...

Edit: AWW SNAP.

WRONG PIECE. It's from the Schwanengesang. My bad. (I've played many
parts of both, so I get confused.)

I should have known -- Winterreise is by Mueller, not Heine.

Nemesio

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tinyurl.com/mw7txe34

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dj2becker is my dopplegaenger!

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
dj2becker is my dopplegaenger!
How did you guess?

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Originally posted by Nemesio
[Die] Winterreise!

Haunting piece...

Edit: AWW SNAP.

WRONG PIECE. It's from the Schwanengesang. My bad. (I've played many
parts of both, so I get confused.)

I should have known -- Winterreise is by Mueller, not Heine.

Nemesio
Yes, it's from 'Schwanengesang', but it would fit right into the 'Winterreise'. I haven't played / sung much of the 'Schwanengesang', but 'Der Doppelgänger' is one of my favourites.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
How did you guess?
I have spies everywhere.