Holiday with language difficulties/Sprachprobleme im Urlaub
David Barnish represented himself in the county court and won damages from the travel company Thomson, but his case was snapped up by the newspapers and ridiculed nonetheless. He booked a holiday in a hotel where so many of the services were in German and for Germans that he couldn't use them. There was only one non-German TV channel, and there was a children's club his daughter couldn't use because it was German. The Telegraph report is fairly subdued. But then there's the second Telegraph report, with obligatory photograph of a lounger with a towel on it. There are plenty of British holidaymaker who can't bear the thought of a certain nationality always being first to the sun loungers - but one got so angry about being surrounded b…
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Erschienen 31. Mai 2008 auf http://transblawg.eu.
The MacDonalds case, as it were, in Germany/Kaffeeklage in München
Transblawg | 17. November 2011 — 11.11.2011 - Pressemitteilung 10/11 Germans have been reminded this week of the Stella Liebeck case, or their memories of it, in w…
Charlotte
Transblawg | 4. September 2009 — It's no longer November 2008, but this, a combined effort by Soko Leipzig and The Bill, is just being shown. I think it was done i…
The McDonalds case, as it were, in Germany/Kaffeeklage in München
Transblawg | 17. November 2011 — 11.11.2011 - Pressemitteilung 10/11 Germans have been reminded this week of the Stella Liebeck case, or their memories of it, in w…
Towel torching /
Transblawg | 29. Mai 2007 — According to The Register, a British coach driver set fire to Germans' towels on the Italian Riviera in order to make sun lou…
Have you got freizeitstresse?/Mord an deutscher Sprache
Transblawg | 8. Mai 2010 — The Germans have always been good at coming up with words for those emotions we all feel but don’t have a name for: schadenfreu…
Your visit to Germany 1957/Tipps für Deutschlandbesuch 1957
Transblawg | 11. August 2010 — Social customs When you go to Germany you will probably want to adapt yourself, in reason, to German customs and conventions.…
Higher Labour Court/Landesarbeitsgericht
Transblawg | 24. Januar 2009 — The European Court of Justice has held that no matter how long an employee is on sick leave, the employee is entitled to holiday t…
Loanwords in German/Lehnwörter in Deutsch
Transblawg | 1. Juni 2010 — The Economist has an (anonymous) article on loanwords in German and the fury they arouse. It's quite well informed, and reminds me…
My E-Discovery Holiday Wish List
Handakte WebLAWg | 15. Dezember 2008 — Every year, even in uncertain economic times, December marks the start of the holiday gift-giving season. And, to theoretically…
German WiFi decision mistranslated/BGH-Urteil zu WLAN ins Englische fehlübersetzt
Transblawg | 20. Mai 2010 — On May 12, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) pronounced judgment in a copyright case involving an unprotecte…
Ein Brite unter Deutschen das ging nicht gut 750 Pfund hat sich David Barnish vor Gericht erstritten weil er in seinem Hotel auf der griechischen Ferieninsel Kos nichts verstand Zu seinem �rger war in der Unterkunft alles nur deutsch...
Handakte WebLAWg » Alles nur deutsch: Brite erhält Schadenersatz
Holiday maker awarded compensation for hotel 'too full of Germans' - Telegraph
Briton wins compensation after holiday 'surrounded by Germans' - Telegraph
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