Britain and England
am 24.03.2005 von http://transblawg.euThe New York Times has an amusing article on the small revenges people take against things that annoy them. This mystifies me, though: Most people participate in this …
Ausweislich
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / One of the fascinating things about the politics of privacy is that people who worry about privacy differ so much: in the UK, for example, nobody seems much to worry about the approximately 4 million CCTV cameras which watch your every step (accordin
German too difficult/Deutsche Sprache muss besser verkauft werden
Transblawg / In England is Deutsch ein unbeliebtes Abiturfach, im Vergleich etwa zu Spanisch, weil es als zu schwer gilt (Bericht von der Deutsch-Britischen Stiftung). According to an article in the Guardian, German is studied less at A-level and AS-Level in Brit
FFK mit Präventiveffekt
Jurabilis / The city has agreed to pay $2,007,000 to end a lawsuit brought by 52 people who were swept up in a mass arrest along a Midtown sidewalk during a protest against the invasion of Iraq. They were charged with blocking pedestrians, but videotapes s
Accents in Britain/Aussprache und Klassenunterschiede
Transblawg / At Language Log, Geoffrey Pullum writes of the Neil Entwistle case, citing this: Priscilla Matterazzo told Connolly that her daughter returned to Massachusetts with her husband and baby in part because, the affidavit said, “Neil would never am
Simon’s laws of local blogging
Obiter Dictum / Dryden, New York is a small town near Ithaca. Four years ago, local resident Simon St. Laurent began chronicling the civic life of the town on a blog called Living in Dryden. In a 2004 profile the Ithaca Journal wrote: St. Laurent can be seen, not
Moussaoui-Prozess - Artikel der New York Times
Weblawg.de / Die New York Times bietet eine Zusammenstellung aller ihrer Artikel und Kommentare im Zusammenhang mit dem Prozess gegen Zacarias Moussaoui, dem bisher einzigen Angeklagten, der wegen der Anschläge vom 11. September vor Gericht steht. Link: www.nyt
