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Occasional musings, Geistesblitze, photos, drawings etc. by a "resident alien", who has landed on American soil from a far-away planet called "Germany".

Friday, June 13, 2008

Word of the month: Angstgegner

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One reason why a foreign word enters the vocabulary of a language is that this vocabulary does not have a word or expression with exactly th...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

Euro 2008

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The European Soccer Championship 2008 will start on June 7 with the match between Switzerland and the Czech Republic. I'll travel to Ger...
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Sunday, June 1, 2008

Tristan und Isolde

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Live from the Met!
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

"Ich bin ein Berliner"

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There is a persistent rumor in English-speaking countries that President Kennedy made a terrible gaffe in a speech he delivered in 1963 in w...
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Fink

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The issue has come up whether "fink" in slang has something to do with German "Fink"--the German word for "finch....
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More on the Ode to Joy

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We follow-up on stuff from the Hello World thread
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Schlegel vs. Coleridge

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We have a topic--scary, actually.
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