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Word of Month Index I had a good time two months ago with drawing a Pechvogel and a Glückspilz and decided to add to the series. Angsth...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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