Hans Wollschläger
am 01.06.2007 von http://transblawg.euHans Wollschläger, best known for translating Ulysses, but also Raymond Chandler, died this week, I see from the local …
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
The Luther of German comics
Transblawg / Erika Fuchs, who died this week at the age of 98, began translating Micky Mouse and Donald Duck comic strips in 1951. She was famous, especially because: she didn’t translate to convey the original as minutely as possible, but to...
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
German court names translated / Deutsche Gerichtsbezeichnungen in Fremdsprachen
Transblawg / The German Auswärtiges Amt long since published a list of German court names and their translations into English, French and Spanish. I see this list has now been augmented to contain Russian, Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Macedonian, Croatian an
You darn fool/Sie zusammengeflickter Narr
Transblawg / Rudolf Hermstein: Chandler verschandelt, oder Das luftgetriebene Riesenhorn In 1976, when Hellmuth Karaseks translation of Raymond Chandlers The Lady in the Lake appeared, I wasnt living in Germany. That may explain why I am so late to hear a
German and English translation weblog / English-Deusches Übersetzungsweblog
Transblawg / I really ought to week out some dead weblogs from my blog roll. Of course one doesn't want all of them to be active all the time, but some of them are greatly missed. The demise of Open Brackets was a sad loss, to say nothing of Translation from
VW-Affäre: Uhl legt Bundestagsmandant nieder
RA-Blog / Hans-Jürgen Uhl (SPD), bekannt durch die VW-Affäre - nicht zu verwechseln mit Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), bekannt durch den Visa-Untersuchungsausschuss - hat gestern sein Bundestagsmandat niedergelegt. Der ehemalige Betriebsrat, der sich ab dem 14.
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...
