German rap music / Deutsche Rapper
am 11.08.2005 von http://transblawg.euThe mysterious Abnu of Wordlab pointed out to me that there was an article on German rap in the New York Times this week. Bushido’s music has been …
German folk music and real German folk music/Echte Volksmusik
Transblawg / The following will not be a surprise to Germans: OK, some of the CDs don’t seem to be quite in the right category. But there is definitely a distinction here. (Drogerie Müller, Nürnberg) Btw, the second CD refers not to...
Use of English in German enterprises
Transblawg / The Financial Times (English edition) of 12 April 2005 has two articles on the use of English in German businesses: English is not always music to the ears, and The new lingua germanica. They will be free online for a...
German view of US tort law/Deutsche Ansichten über Recht der USA
Transblawg / The German-American Law Journal blog links to an old findlaw article by Anthony J. Sebok on How Germany Views U.S. Tort Law. From conversations with German friends and from reading the German press, I had always suspected Germany’s view of...
German names / Deutsche Namen
Transblawg / The site Echtename.de collects bizarre German names. It’s constantly being enlarged. Of the many categories, double names (Doppelnamen) is particularly interesting, because Germans oftn combine two surnames when they get married. # Sylvia Diens
Mysterious German MP blog/Jakob M. Mierscheid-Weblog
Transblawg / Via jurabilis and Handakte WebLAWg: there is a new weblog (in German) by the apparently fictitious German member of the Bundestag Jakob Maria Mierscheid. Here’s his Bundestag entry. Here we see, for example, that in 1967/1968 he published a...
German sentence / Deutscher Satz
Transblawg / The German Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, is on holiday, but he’s only gone to Hannover. Meanwhile, by Friday the Federal President has to announce whether or not he will permit the Bundestag to be dissolved, meaning there will be a
Music for Labor Day/Lehrlinge halten zusammen
Transblawg / To while away the time while I finish my job, here is some German music from the 1960s, at WFMUs Beware of the Blog: For Labor Day, here is a perennial WFMU favorite of socialist propaganda songs from 1960s West Germany, the compilation Lehrlin
German article comparing Ltd. and GmbH/Artikel vergleicht Ltd. und GmbH
Transblawg / There’s an article in the Anwaltsblatt (German) by Volker G. Heinz, who is a Rechtsanwalt and Notar in Berlin, comparing the English limited company with the German GmbH. I’ve already mentioned Heinz’s excellent comparative articles
Christmas music / Musik zu Weihnachten
Transblawg / The German Embassy in London's musical advent calendar: Probably the best musical online Calendar on the web, this year's German Embassy Advent Calendar is packed with ultra-modern arrangements of traditional German Christmas Carols. We are
Swiss authors and German publishers/Schweizer Autor, deutscher Verlag
Transblawg / I’ve mentioned more than once how American publishers sometimes change the texts of British authors. Here’s a German example of a German publisher wanting to change a Swiss German text. Hugo Loetscher schreibt zu den Änderungen, die
Texas German/Texas-Deutsch
Transblawg / Annggargoon's language of the week is North Texas German. Article in the Houston Times, and site of Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) with sound clips. Texas German is a unique dialect of German that is spoken by the descendants of German immi
Wikipedia on German law
Transblawg / The English Wikipedia deals with German law among other topics, and how it’s put into English might be of interest. In mid-December, the daily article featured was on Paragraph/Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, which made homosexual acts
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