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Yesterday in an xword blog, some very disparaging things were said about lima beans. This saddens me because Dicke Bohnen mit Speck (lima b...

Marlene started a post on Rilke, and I am delighted to take her up on this. I am no specialist, though--which should encourage other non-spe...

In a thriller I recently read, the author describes people waiting at an airport and speaking in "ugly German". This was an aside,...

Motivated by today's NYT crossword puzzle, I present here, for further discussion, my thoughts on the chances and pitfalls of translatin...

Let's make this a free-for-all for whatever comes to anybody's mind relating to something German.

It's not surprising that our spirited debate about the English gerund has broadened. Once you realize that, as I said in that thread, gr...

The charge (raised in an xword blog on Sunday) is that "[something] may have to do with me not being too fond of forced puns..." i...