Urn burial continued / Friedhofszwang wird vielleicht aufgehoben
am 04.08.2005 von http://transblawg.euFollowing my earlier entry, I now read that the obligation under German law for ashes to be buried in cemeteries may be repealed. Apparently Germany, Austria and Slovakia …
Hydriotaphia
Transblawg / Somehow I don’t think that when Thomas Browne wrote ‘Urn-Burial’ he was thinking of the situation in Germany. You can be cremated here but after that you have to be buried! Great princes affected great monuments; and the fair and...
New language comment on earlier entry
Transblawg / On July 21st I had an entry on a new language invented in Regensburg. I have now received an email from one Robert Maier, who apparently knows something about this but mysteriously describes himself as ‘happily far from Regensburg’. I...
Satire in Central Europe
Transblawg / Here’s some German satire that went down in Austria like a lead balloon. A couple of years ago, Matthias Schindler wrote a satirical entry ostensibly advising people not to read Udo Vetter’s law blog: Jeder unbedarfte Leser begibt sich au
German legalese
Transblawg / In an earlier entry I linked to a site showing how to create a long German legal sentence. I believe that must have been a plagiarism, because jurabilis now quotes a file with that material in it as being by...
Katrina and Rita / Was wir lernen können
Transblawg / Craig Morris (see earlier entry) was born in New Orleans and lives in Freiburg im Breisgau. Some people believe (apparently wrongly) that he used to have a translation weblog. On September 2, an adapted version of an article of his...
Vampires in Birmingham/Urban legends
Transblawg / Random Acts of Reality reports on using the phonetic alphabet (apparently the London Ambulance Service use the NATO alphabet, see earlier entry). The comments on the story mention a rumour going around Newham that ‘there is someone going around
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