Misspelling - skyo63

Not entirely true - dialects exist where "Kopp" is the common form.

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Monday, November 26 2007 @ 09:03 AM PST

Misspelling - Joachim3

Basically you are right. But in some (in fact: many) parts of Germany there is a sort of dialect (in fact many: many dialects) called "Low German". And in those dialects it's "Kopp" instead of "High German Kopf".
By the way: "Low German" can be found mainly in North-west Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Northrhine-Westfalia, and so forth, it streches out into the Neatherlands in the West and into Estonia in the East of Europe.
Even the English language (at least historically: "Old English") is fairly close to "low German". In the Middle Ages (around 1200 to 1600) it was predominant in central europe, being the language of trade and traffic.
It was fairly close to becoming the predominant language: But then English won (OK, no football/soccer in those days...).
Don' wanna imitate a wise guy.. just chatting!

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Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Misspelling - marcus58

In general you´re right, but there are some (old) dialects here in germany which uses the word „Kopp" in place of „kopf“.
So there´s a colloquial phrase: „Dat hälste ja im Kopp net aus!", which means somewhat of „I can´t take it!".

I think the developer had this in mind as he programmed the app...

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Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 02:35 AM PDT