Neudeutsch in Fürth /Busstopp sorgt für Ärger
am 15.02.2005 von http://transblawg.euThe Fürther Nachrichten must be at the forefront of language change. I admit that Google finds over 1200 Busstopps in Germany, but some of those refer to …
Video of Fürth Christmas market / Fürther Weihnachtsmarkt-Video
Transblawg / (Large file) Weihnachtsmarkt Auf dem Video sieht man die Schafe, die den Weihnachtsmarkt jedes Jahr schmücken. Das Blöken kommt von den Kindern, nicht von den Schafen. This video clip was taken this morning at the Fürth Christmas marke
Durch Fürth geführt Band 3
Transblawg / Barbara Ohms drittes Band mit Spaziergängen durch Fürth ist erschienen, diesmal Auf den Spuren der Fürther Juden. ISBN 3 9810702 0 8
German blog reading in Fürth/Blog-Lesung in Fürth
Transblawg / Die Blog-Lesung ist im Kommen. Kaum sind zwei Lesungen in München angekündigt, bevor eine 1. Fränkische Blog-Lesung in Fürth angekündigt wird. Nicht nur vor Nürnberg, nein, es ist die Fürther Südstadt, wo diese
Fürth sites / Fürther Websites
Transblawg / I am just adding a few Fürth sites to my blogroll. On this occasion I combined Zonebattler’s latest picture with Dirk Pässler’s polar panorama technique to produce this: Not perfect, but then for this treatment the trains sho
Death notices / Todesanzeigen
Transblawg / Fürther Nachrichten, 8.10.2005 Does anyone else find this odd?...
Ravens a 19th-century addition/Raben am Tower of London
Transblawg / I reported on this earlier, with photos. An article in today’s Guardian reports on research by Dr. Geoff Parnell that finds no trace of ravens at the Tower before the late 19th century, and also finds there were no ravens...
Inns of Court
Transblawg / The four inns of court in London are organizations that barristers belong to, and their names are also used to refer to the areas of London they own. They are called Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn and Gray’s Inn....
Listed buildings in Fürth/Denkmalstadt Fürth
Transblawg / Signs on the autobahns in Germany like Medizin- und Universitätsstadt Erlangen or Fränkisches Seenland are called Unterrichtungstafeln. Fürth will be getting one of these along the lines of Denkmalstadt Fürth: the city of listed
Singular they in legal English/Geschlechtsneutralität in der englischen Rechtssprache
Transblawg / Mark Liberman at Language Log links to a good summary by the Canadian Department of Justice on the use of they as a singular in legal usage. The use of the singular they is becoming more common not only in spoken but in written English and can
Google Translation Onebox
Handakte WebLAWg / Google has a new direct result showing translations, triggered for certain queries. Here are some examples: [translate Hello into French] - Google offers the translation “allô, bonjour”. [translate Einkommensteuer] - “Einkommensteuer” is a
