Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 32 - 5 May - Strasbourg - Rumelange - Kirchberg - Wiltz - Libramont - Bruxelles
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon Ich befasse mich hin und wieder mal mit Luxemburgisch und habe dadurch Ende 2022 Kontakt um Luxemburger Linguisten Jerome Lulling geknüpft, mit dem ich bis heute in recht gutem Austausch stehe. Immer dann, wenn ich in Luxemburg bin, gerauche ich Luxemburgisch, sofern möglich und switche auf Deutsch, sobald ich an meine Grenzen stoße.
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon as someone who's studied German, and is trying to learn Dutch, spending any time in Luxembourg utterly fucks my language centres.
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon I didn't find those seats very lux(urious). My butt hurt when I sat on them longer than a short ride lol
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon like dutch?
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon Mix in Kiwi for extra fun. “It’s wichtig as, bro!”
(Also: When RTL entered the Dutch TV market with RTL-Véronique as “A Luxembourg TV channel honest *hem* *hem*” they’d have something like 1h of programming in Lëtzebuergesch per day (yay Hei Elei Kuck Elei), which was really confusing. “It _sounds_ like Dutch, but I cannot understand a word of it, am I having a stroke? Is the TV?”)
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I know it’s the Lux tram. But *that* lux, with seats that light up?
@jon Are they made by FIAT?
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@maha blame UIC. Really. They’ve been incapable for years of getting Euskotren data into the UIC Merits database.
@jon That‘s surprising! Since Euskotrain is operating internationally by design.
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@maha You’re a passenger. Why does SNCF care about you? (Sorry)
@jon I see!
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SNCF Connect, it can *always* be worse than you imagine. I am on Interrail today but wondered how much Metz
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costs. SNCF Connect can’t tell me, TER Grand Est site can. SNCF is the operator. 
️ #CrossBorderRail@jon Looks like it is (once again) a weird SNCF Connect bug on some morning departures: it works for all the other trains of the day, and it does work if you click on "direct trains only".
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Here’s the location of the former #CrossBorderRail line
@jon What a pitty
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon This language clearly had a stroke. Which is no surprise as its speakers have the benefit of French vineyards and German portion sizes.
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@jon I didn't find those seats very lux(urious). My butt hurt when I sat on them longer than a short ride lol
@simonschre Yes! They’re rock hard!
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@jon Are they made by FIAT?
@happydisciple CAF!
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@jon Looks like it is (once again) a weird SNCF Connect bug on some morning departures: it works for all the other trains of the day, and it does work if you click on "direct trains only".
@corentin aaasgghhhhhhh. Having the data but not being able to show it is even worse!
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@jon What a pitty
@matschlegel this one was always likely hopeless. This is why it was the last LU-FR one I went to!
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Lëtzebuergesch is a funny language to read as a speaker of German and English!
@jon The more special I find this since Luxembourgish is not an official language of the European Union.
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@jon I don’t think there’s a bible version that opens with “Caf lux” though…
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I don’t have any data on these either. But I’m getting closer to my destination: the European Court of Auditors
After 75 minutes being grilled by the Court of Auditors for a report they’re writing about railways, I’m on my way again. Next: Wiltz
And this - as ever - is unpaid. Everyone else the Court will speak to has a job to allow them time for this. But as I’m self employed it’s just me, me giving my time. It’s nice to be asked of course!
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After 75 minutes being grilled by the Court of Auditors for a report they’re writing about railways, I’m on my way again. Next: Wiltz
And this - as ever - is unpaid. Everyone else the Court will speak to has a job to allow them time for this. But as I’m self employed it’s just me, me giving my time. It’s nice to be asked of course!
@jon
Did you tell them to ask all the others whether they got to Luxembourg by train?
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@jon
Did you tell them to ask all the others whether they got to Luxembourg by train?@notsoloud Mine was the first non-Webinar meeting!
