Miscellaneous snippets/Verschiedene Links
am 10.02.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
Ben Hammersley's blog first turned into a photo collection and then briefly flirted with reading translations of Rilke - he gave a link to translations of 100 Rilke poems.
The importance of language in not being regarded as dumb is illustrated in this story shamelessly pinched from Trevor.
I have knitted two fairly reasonable cat beds to date, but have yet to perfect the skill. Here is a gallery of various-sized cats and beds.
Have I already mentioned the (German) Photoshop weblog?
In Der Schweizer als Reisemangel, Blogwiese reports on a story from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (dated January 2007, but reporting a 1993 case) of a Caribbean cruise which Germans (no more than 60 of them) were looking forward to but which turned out to be for 500 Swiss and have a large Swiss German (dialect) element. In fact the Germans had been promised Caribbean music and the Swiss had been promised Swiss folk music. The Frankfurt am Main Landgericht held that the cruise had been defective. See also here:
So stellt es laut dem Frankfurter Landgericht (LG) einen Mangel einer Kreuzfahrtreise in die Karibik …
Miscellaneous courts/Verschiedene Gerichte
Transblawg / I wrote this when I had more time. Hope it makes sense now. EFTA Court in Luxembourg The EFTA Court fulfils the judicial function within the EFTA system, interpreting the Agreement on the European Economic Area with regard to the...…
Swiss federal law in English / Schweizer Geldwäschereigesetz auf Englisch
Transblawg / Oliver Kunz of KunzOBlog reports that more English translations of Swiss law are to be published on the Swiss government website. The Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) has appeared as a PDF file. That's only the short name, fortunately (it remind…
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…
Integrating Germans in Switzerland/Erziehung der Deutschen
Transblawg / Blogwiese reports on an article in BLICK in late September: a Swiss politician wants Germans in Switzerland to be given integration courses. He is from the SVP, a Conservative party. «An der Medizinischen Fakultät der Uni Zürich rumo…
This non-American life / Weblog aus der Schweiz / München
Transblawg / Julie Galante is self-described in her weblog This non-American life as A travel-addicted American expatriate who has lived in Italy, Germany, and now Switzerland. - now apparently moving to Munich: Have I mentioned how very, very excited I am…
Extraterritorial Banking
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Frequently, Europeans claim excessive extraterritorial effects of American laws but they are guilty of the same approach to regulatory oversight. A July 5, 2007 ruling of the Frankfurt administrative court in the matter 1 E 4…
Swiss German again/Schweizer Ausdrücke
Transblawg / Weblog von einem Deutschen in der Schweiz. Scarcely have I posted the entry on Swiss wrestling than I find a recommendation for a Weblog in German, describing Switzerland from a foreigner’s point of view. And it’s the second time I’…
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