Green thumb/Grüner Daumen
am 20.11.2006 von http://transblawg.euThese gardening gloves come from Räder (click on Collection and click through a few pages). On the green thumb is the word Bloom, which I suppose is intended to be Neudeutsch. At all events, a person whose native language is English might be mystified. An ideal …
Native speakers a hindrance
Transblawg / A survey by David Graddiol, commissioned by the British Council, on Global English: Global English is often compared to Latin, a rare historical parallel to English in the way that it fl ourished as an international language after the decline of the…
Green electricity / Stromversorgung
Transblawg / Here's some Fürth wiring. Actually some of my lighting here comes the same way: This is probably how Grundig got started. Of course, the greenery is part of the more recent campaign to make the town green.…
The Special Translation Tool/Die Besondere Übersetzungshilfe
Transblawg / I’ve mentioned Jerry (Gerold) Harfst’s book Die Besondere Übersetzungshilfe before , but now I can present some pages from it to show what it’s like. The book is a criminal law glossary divided into three sections: in the firs…
Green / Grün in der FuZo
Transblawg / I spoke too soon when I said green had been displaced by bronze in the pedestrian zone. Since the redesign, virtually all facilities for dogs have disappeared.…
Sorting rubbish / Mülltrennung
Transblawg / This is a partial answer to a topic that has sometimes cropped up in the comments, here for instance. This was posted after I put something like boiled potatoes in the green bin. Usually, if in doubt (as in the case of meat), I look at the Für…
Taboo language/Schimpfen in der Fremdsprache
Transblawg / In an old post entitled Fucking Jävla Skit Language, Watch me sleep discussed a problem encountered by teachers of English in Germany too: Taboo swear words are probably among the first thing a second language learner learns if they have a teen…
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