Saturday, October 24, 2009

More slants on language

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In the Sachzwang thread, we ended by briefly talking about Heinrich Böll's critique of language as a tool for overt or covert political...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

FIFA World cup 2010 in S. Africa: Who is qualified?

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I created this thread to keep the soccer fans among my friends up-to-date on the qualifying rounds currently played all over the world. I co...
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Monday, October 5, 2009

Chandler--which novel is the best?

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On a different blog, several fans of Raymond Chandler have outed themselves, which motivated me to start a discussion dear to my heart: Whic...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Word of the month: Lebensgefährte, Lebensgefährtin

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Both words mean literally "life companion" (male and female form, respectively--they combine Leben ("life") with Gefähr...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Health care here and there

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One thing is for sure: Nowhere in the industrialized world would people put up with a system like the one in the US, and if they had one, th...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Words of the Month: Pechvogel, Glückspilz

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Pechvogel combines Pech (misfortune, bad luck) with Vogel (bird). The word denotes a person who has bad luck, like a soccer player who sc...
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Monday, August 10, 2009

Word of the Month: Wanderlust

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This word is in the language, but I like to talk about it anyway (see my first comment). It's composed of two Words: wandern (to hike, ...
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