Dreiherrenbrunnen revisited
am 04.07.2006 von http://transblawg.euThe German colours have …
Ethnic German/Deutschstämmig revisited
Transblawg / In RA-Blog, Thomas Klotz prints his complete E-Mail to SizeGermany and their reply (German).
i.A. / i.V. revisited
Transblawg / Via a Google search leading to my site I found two useful articles in German on the use of i.A. and i.V. on business letters on the website of Verlag für die deutsche Wirtschaft AG. Die Zeichnungsbefugnis im Auftrag also...
across revisited
Transblawg / There’s been quite a discussion about across on the pt mailing list. In the course of reading this I discovered that in order for a BDÜ member to register for a free licence for the program, he or she becomes...
Claus Victor Bock
Transblawg / The Independent has Jeremy Adlers obituary of Claus Bock, a former professor of German at London University, who survived the war in hiding in Amsterdam. I missed his autobiography (1985). Bocks record of the war years was published in 1985 as
Wahlschlappen
Transblawg / Breitenbach are selling Wahlschlappen in a choice of four colours. This is not easy to translate as Wahlschlappe means a bad election result - a party is said to have suffered a Wahlschlappe (heavy losses), whereas Schlappen are slippers. I...
Paint your own gnome / Weihnachtsgeschenke
Transblawg / Its widely believed in Germany that garden gnomes are a purely German phenomenon. Paint your own gnome tells it like it is. (Available on U.S. sites too) The crocodile pond floater is attractive too, but more expensive. Musical cake slice - pl
English vocabulary count/Fast 1 Million englische Wörter
Transblawg / The Independent writes that the English language will soon have its 1-millionth word. * Spanish linguists say there are 225,000 words in contemporary use. * The largest edition of the Duden German-German dictionary contains about 200,000 words * The
Neue Rechtsanwälte am BGH
Jurabilis / Der elitäre Kreis der BGH-Rechtsanwälte wurde bekanntlich kürzlich erweitert. Mit dabei Gunhild Schäfer, (bald Ex-)Partnerin bei Freshfields, was The Lawyer eine Meldung wert ist:Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a litigation partner i
Medication Row
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The Wall Street Journal on page B1 today reports that German Curbs on Drug Costs Rile Big Brands. The paper notes that manufacturers of pharmaceuticals fear the new and effective German reimbursement system for medications mig
German Accounting Legislation / Deutsches Bilanzrecht
Transblawg / Deutsch und Englisch / German and English Many years ago, I had a copy of Deutsches Bilanzrecht, by Brooks/Mertin, which was a great secret weapon. That was a third edition of extracts from German accounting legislation, with a synoptic translatio
Rooneys educated uncle / Falscher Dolmetscher legt ARD rein
Transblawg / Apparently the German TV station ARD broadcast an interview with an ‘uncle’ of Wayne Rooney’s. To quote the Independent: Mr Rooney describes himself as a freelance author and interpreter. He says he moved from Manchester to Germany
Wort zum Sonntag
Kleinblog | David Klein / Juristen zeichnet aus, daß Sie komplexe Sachverhalte sinnvoll zusammenfassen können. Ich weiß nicht, ob das folgende Zitat von einem Juristen stammt, es ist aber ein Paradebeispiel für effiziente Ausdrucksweise: “Ich hab nichts gegen glei
