Xerxes Xoe
am 28.10.2004 von http://transblawg.euThis is a names story, so I did my duty and combed Wordlab, but not a trace did I find. There was a discussion on John Doe and …
Languages Forum (originally ####)
Transblawg / I have already reported that the Compuserve Foreign Languages Educational Forum, FLEFO, has become The Languages Forum. It appears that if you type FLEFO into a message there, the word is replaced by the Compuserve computer with #### (see thread...
Death of FLEFO / CompuServe Fremdsprachenforum endet
Transblawg / The FLEFO forum on Compuserve is dead. It’s been replaced by the Languages Forum, which is accessible to everyone without charge via a Web browser. The migration to the new system was foreshadowed by the appearance of a Wizop, who...
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
Hamburgers, Frankfurters/Wiener und Pariser
Transblawg / Following the discussion on Berliner, some discussion in the languagehat comments. John Emerson writes: Well then, why DID the effete Europeans name all their great cities after pastries and sausages? And Chris Waigl comments on the Amerikaner. Now I
Wright Hassall / Lustige Kanzleinamen
Transblawg / RollOnFriday recently had a competition for the best-named law firm. This was not about fictitious firm names, like Private Eye’s Sue Grabbit & Runne or the Marx Brothers’ Dewey Cheatem & Howe, but existing names (although ‘
Names
Transblawg / I really do not intend to get involved in political discussion on this blog. I take both SPD and CSU free biros and bumph outside on Saturdays. Still, I would just like to say some women seem very odd to...
Domain names pledgable in Germany
Law & Justice / The German legal blog Handakte writes about a judgment of the German supreme court, which has decided in a landmark decision that domain names are pledgable. Hereby the court ends an ongoing legal discussion about the legal nature of domain names in
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