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18. Februar 2012 —Deutschlandfunk Presseschau Deutschland und international, Samstag, 18. Februar 2012 12:50 Uhr About twice a week, when I'm driving to appointments, I hear the Deutschlandfunk station reporting on the press. I'm going to quote it below, but today's text won't be there forever, although there is an a…

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5. November 2011 —For another blog on this topic, see German American Law Journal. AmCham is what the American Chamber of Commerce calls itself. It has produced a Positionspapier des Corporate an Business Law Committee von AmCham Germany: Englisch als Gerichtssprache in Deutschland. Maybe there's an English version,…

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27. Juni 2010 — Yesterday BILD claimed it was appearing without any English words. I can't confirm this. I do wish commentators would pronounce 'Stephen Gerrard' with emphasis on the first syllable of his surname. I found another call for avoiding anglicisms from a publication called Deutsche Sprachwelt in Erlange…

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7. Dezember 2009 —In her weblog, Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, reports on visits to prisons (Tegel and Neustrelitz) and compares them with the equivalent in the UK (A note from a visit to German prisons). There are 160 staff who include officers who run the programmes, apprenticeshi…

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24. Oktober 2009 —In Deutsche definieren Englisch neu, USAnwalt comments on the most common 'German' meaning of shooting star: Warum bezeichnen heute so oft die englischsprachigen Nachrichten aus Deutschland Politiker als Shooting Star? So eine Welle gab es schon einmal. Meine Amis verstehen das nicht. Bezeichn…

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6. Oktober 2009 —I wrote about legal entity earlier. Now Professor Noack of Unternehmensrechtliche Notizen points out that the term Legaleinheit is creeping into German. Google nennt immerhin ca. 1 600 Treffer, der Duden kennt das Wort noch nicht, ebensowenig die juristischen Lehrbücher. Mir ist der Begriff auch…

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11. September 2009 —The US military courthouse in Fürth has long gone. It was the biggest outside the USA. Happy times of watching trials on the murder of taxi drivers etc. (They had a great basement theatre too, in which they used to put on musicals and plays). British military court buildings in Germany are on the ri…

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19. November 2008 — I have mentioned Flocke here before, but it was only at the beginning of November that I got round to seeing her. It was fairly sunny and she was asleep. It was the school holidays, and a mother kept saying to her child, 'Sie ist eine Schlafmütze' (which was slightly more tolerable than the man who…

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26. Juni 2008 —Rechtsanwalt Jens Hänsch, Dresden, compared part of an Austrian judgment he received with its German equivalent. I shamelessly reproduce both: Was in Deutschland hieße 1. Der Beklagte wird verurteilt, an die Klägerin 1.144,50 Euro zuzüglich Zinsen in Höhe von 9,47 % seit dem 10.04.2006 zu zahlen…

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26. Juni 2008 —Rechtsanwalt Jens Hänsch, Dresden, compared part of an Austrian judgment he received with its German equivalent. I shamelessly reproduce both: Was in Deutschland hieße 1. Der Beklagte wird verurteilt, an die Klägerin 1.144,50 Euro zuzüglich Zinsen in Höhe von 9,47 % seit dem 10.04.2006 zu zahlen…

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14. April 2008 — Chester 50% Fett i.Tr. Unter Schutzatmosphäre verpackt. ... Abgepackt in Deutschland Queijo Cheddar tipico Irlandés, 50% M.G./E.S. ... Embalado no Alemanha. Hergestellt in Deutschland/Origem: Alemanha…

12. Dezember 2007 —Robin Bonthrone reports: Version 3 of the XBRL taxonomy of German GAAP dated 1 December 2007 has now been released. The taxonomy is available in German and English. You can either download the native XBRL format files from XBRL Deutschland's website at: http://www.xbrl.de/downloads/taxonom…

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28. Mai 2007 — Green Dot masquerading as blue. Der Grüne Punkt IPKAT reports a decision by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. It held that the Green Dot - Duales System Deutschland - acted abusively when it collected a blanket fee for all packaging marked with a green dot, when som…

16. Oktober 2006 — Blogwiese reports on an article in BLICK in late September: a Swiss politician wants Germans in Switzerland to be given integration courses. He is from the SVP, a Conservative party. «An der Medizinischen Fakultät der Uni Zürich rumort es», sagt Mörgeli, der dort Professor für Medizingesc…

30. März 2006 — Spiegel Online is preparing a Germany Survival Bible. If you’re an expat or someone who has spent time in Germany, we want your help. Why do pedestrians wait for the light to change at 3:00 a.m.? Why are the shops closed on Sunday? Is German beer a stereotype or a reality? Why do toilets …

3. August 2005 —It looks as though this curiosity, mentioned earlier, has actually hit the market. My link is to a German description: Jeder Fachbegriff ist in der authentischen Aussprache vertont, gesprochen von hochrangigen Richtern aus Australien, Deutschland, England, Österreich, Schottland und...…

19. März 2005 —Die Guardian berichtet von 24 englischen Schulkindern auf einem Lerne-Deutschland-Kennen-Besuch. “It’s a lot cleaner than Britain. The public transport is great. And there are these recycling bins everywhere,” he said as his classmates posed for photos on the steps of...…

5. März 2005 —Craig Morris übersetzt und schreibt für heise.de. Im Januar war er zum ersten Mal seit acht Jahren in den USA und beschreibt seine Gefühle über Texas, New Orleans und Deutschland (er lebt in Freiburg am Breisgau). Benachrichtigung über neue Texte...…