St. Jeromes Day/Hieronymustag
am 30.09.2004 von http://transblawg.euLast Sunday was apparently the European Day of Languages, which has been taking place (in great secrecy) since 2001. I did mention it last year, but I decided …
Mothers Day/Muttertag
Transblawg / Today is the fourth Sunday in Lent and so it is Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday in Britain. I wasn’t aware of that, nor that in Germany and American Mother’s Day is on 8 May (and 29 May in France)....…
Back in action / Wieder bei der Arbeit
Legalesed / Well, I’m back. My vacation was excellent, as was the skiing. It snowed throughout the nights and was sunny during the days - perfect conditions. Now I’m ready for Spring, but it doesn’t seem ready for me yet: It’s freezing! I…
City names in many languages/Mehrsprachige Liste von Städtenamen
Transblawg / Language hat links to a superb list of names of European cities in several languages at wordiq.com, via a comment from vicente at Pepys’ Diary. Here’s Athens: Afiny (Russian, Ukrainian), Ateena (Finnish), Aten (Norwegian, Swedish), Atena…
City mislaid / Übersetzungsproblem
Transblawg / Reuter’s reports on the English translation of a Hebrew sightseeing brochure on Jerusalem: “Jerusalem. There is no such city!” the Jerusalem municipality said in the English-language version of a sightseeing brochure it had publish…
The gift of tongues
Transblawg / I hope my entry of May 13 wasn’t misleading. I wasn’t cooking any Indians, or even turkeys, but something much more appropriate to Whitsun. Incidentally, the logo of the SDI (Sprachen und Dolmetscherinstitut, no hyphens) in Munich represe…
Kazhakhstan/Kasachstan
Transblawg / On marrying a foreigner in Kazhakstan: For some reason, my relatives decided that I’m getting married to a millionaire and asked him to pay “kalym” (traditional “payment” for a bride) with a helicopter, for grandpa, sin…
London drinks tea in your general direction
Aktenvermerk / Today i’m a Londoner & today I hurt (sic) ist das Motto dieser Seite. Zum Teil sehr lustige Graphiken, schwarzer Humor (Today I’m a Londoner & Today I got a day off) und ein wenig “Clash of Cultures” (So if you’r…
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