next lesson: if you have shot nothing, you answer "Waidmannsheil" as well, only if you have shot yourself anything you may answer: "Waidmannsdank" that means "Thank you" pronounced: whitemunsdunk on the last syllable.

Now you are a perfect hunter ;-)
The idea isas follows: If I meet another hunter and I don't want to ask him if he was successful in hunting (that is not polite because he may have to answer "no") I only say "Waidmannsheil". Now he answers either "Waidmannsheil" what means, he shot nothing, or "Waidmannsdank" and now I can ask him what!!!!

It#s a little bit complicated, but it is part of a special language grown over the centuries in Germany.
Hope I do not bore you!

Waidmannsheil,
Gunwolf

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