Poetry meme
am 20.10.2004 von TransblawgThere’s a meme going around weblogs at the moment that says ‘When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your blog’. (Via Desbladet, dust from a …
Spelling book aims for high sales
Transblawg / Lynne Truss’ publishers have now published Vivian Cook’s ‘Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary or why can’t anybody spell?’ (I pasted that. I can’t be bothered to misspell). Amazon.co.uk already has a five-star re
Websters online dictionary - Rosetta edition
Transblawg / What on earth is this ‘dictionary’? Here it is on translator. There are seven pictures of translators, none of which are me. Very bizarre. If you click on ‘references’, you are taken to amazon.com. We know ‘Webster’
There aint no sanity clause
Transblawg / When I started this blog, I was thinking of calling it No Sanity Clause. It had the ideal link between law and Mar(ks)x. But then I realized that not many Germans would understand that. Perhaps it’s just as well, since this name has since been
Robert Gernhardt
Transblawg / Robert Gernhardt, who died of cancer on Friday at the age of 68, wrote ‘light’ or ‘nonsense’ and also more serious poetry. I have sometimes tried, not very successfully, to translate some into English. I think it could be tra
Anus motion/Übersetzungsprobleme
Transblawg / Matthew Baldwin of The Morning News reports - or reported - that Spanish-speaking drivers have been getting out of drunk driving cases because of a deficiency in Spanish-language cards used by traffic cops: “But the defense somehow got a copy
Greeting people in Switzerland / Grüße in der Schweiz
Transblawg / Quote: Was sagen Sie einem Menschen, der im Garten arbeitet? [What do you say to a person who is working in his or her garden?] Older informants: - 4 x ‘Wachst’s?/Wott’s wachse?’ [Are your plants growing?] - 3 x ‘Brav!&#
Internet directories/Internet-Adressendatenbänke
Transblawg / I have just phoned Kelly in London, since they ignore my emails and I don’t want to get a ‘personal login’. Now they may understand that I don’t sell curtains or tables. The woman promised me that my address will be removed -
Germans pronouncing Hurrikan
Transblawg / It has been pointed out to me by Anon. of Frankfurt am Main that, as with ‘curry’, German newscasters have difficulty pronouncing ‘Hurrikan’ or ‘hurricane’. Some pronounce it in an acceptable English way, but other
Live 8
Transblawg / The German newsreaders pronounce ‘Live 8’ the same way as ‘Live Aid’....
Ridiculous application questions/Lächerliche Fragen beim Vorstellungsgespräch
Transblawg / RollOnFriday is having a competition for the most ridiculous question put to an applicant in person or on an application form. Apparently, Withers (a London law firm) asked the following question on a form: To which fictional character do you most
Merriam-Websters Open Dictionary
Transblawg / Hours of harmless fun with Merriam-Webster’s online Open Dictionary: Welcome to Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary where you can 1) submit and share entries that aren’t already in our Online Dictionary, and 2) browse entries submitt
Translation weblog Oversetter
Transblawg / I have just discovered that Nick Rosenthal of Salford Translations Ltd. has a weblog called Oversetter. Nick was once the Jerry Pournelle of the ITI, with his column Nick’s Attic (or something like that) in the Bulletin. Let’s hope for m
Doorbells and weblogs
Transblawg / Stuart Mudie asks in a comment to the last entry whether I’m trying to compete with Andrew Lossowsky. Well, I had not seen his doorbell pictures although I had heard of Barçablog. Anyway, I can’t say at the moment when...
Google erklärt googlen
MarkenBlog / Usage: ‘Google’ as noun referring to, well, us. Example: “I just love Google, they’re soooo cute and cuddly and adorable and awesome!” Our lawyers say: Good. Very, very good. There’s no question here that you̵
Cicero: Zum zweiten Mal nach Karlsruhe
Handakte WebLAWg / Die Affäre um Durchsuchungen beim Magazin ‘Cicero‘ hat jetzt ein weiteres juristisches Nachspiel. Die Anwälte des Blatts haben beim BVerfG eine zweite Klage eingereicht, wie die ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ berichtet. Sie richtet
Dressing down/Kleidung für den Misserfolg
Transblawg / I knew Karstadt-Quelle had been having some difficulties. But that’s no reason to advertise it so blatantly. (From the catalogue ‘Madeleine feeling’ [sic], Herbst/Winter 2005/06)...
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