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This evening, 24 April, I got an email which made me very happy. It was from Martin Keller:

After more than 3 years and 100+ visits, I have just climbed the "fisch-project" in Chironico.
The boulder is called "Der mit dem Fels tanzt" and it's the most funky, most crazy, most powerful, most...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67075

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Cool name for a problem that.

In reply to archiecb:

Yes it is (i had to google translate it): the rock with the dance

Though I like my phonetic translation:

The man with felt hands

In reply to jh_oneill: I think it's more like "He who dances with the rock"

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Looks cool. I was hoping this was something to do with the marmolada, but this is also nice. Looks so wild.

As for the translation- I reckon you're about right. Technically there is no 'he' at the beginning, but I don't think it's too free to add it in for the carrying of semantics.

In reply to Jurgan C: technically, there is!
the Der (male article) denotes a male subject.

In reply to grubber: True, I think Bjoern has it right.

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

It's "Dances With Rocks", because it's punning on the German title of Dances With Wolves.

In reply to grubber: isn't it Der because the word rock is masculine. Der Fels. He would be "er", and there is no wer(who) in the sentence either.

In reply to Jiduvah:

It's 'Dem' because the dance is 'happening' TO the rock and therefore puts into the masculine dative.

And that's all I remember from GCSE German...

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Der - in this sentence means - the one who(male)

So its in effect -the one who dances with the rock

In reply to teapot:

Remember in Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner was called - "the one who dances with wolves"- by the Indians. Hence the tital Dances with Wolves

Fels also is closer to cliff than rock.

In reply to teapot:

oh just noticed my typo of title

In reply to teapot:

That's not true. It can easily mean either.

In reply to Jurgan C:

I agree. My mistake

In reply to AlanLittle:

Not sure why people have ignored you, but that seems like the best translation.

Word-for-word translation misses the point.

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:
Seems like you need a German here in the forum to clarify things.
1. Yes, it is a pun with "Dances with Wolves"
2. Der = male form and can be translated with "(he) who" or "the one who" if you wanna do it literally, so björn is right. It refers to Martin ie the climber in this context, not to the rock.
2. "Fels" simply is the material, nothing else. Everything from a small pebble to a big cliff is made of "Fels"

In reply to robin mueller:

"The rock with the dance," marks the rock out as special, there are many rocks, but only one dance. It implies that this is the rock with the only true dance, the dance that you spend a lifetime practising for, and get to do once.

"Dances with rocks" makes it sound like a generic experience, as in lots of rocks, lots of dances.

In reply to John1923:


Or it could be the end of a line that might begin "The man who..."