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The term is used, in the narrower sense, to refer to speech made incomprehensible because it is a mixture of words from different languages,...

Dachs is the   the German name for a badger (because of its short legs, a Dachshund is able to follow a badger into its burrow). The adjec...

There are some very interesting books out that deal with various aspects of the current political situation. We start with a comment by one ...

Word of the Month: Index Vorfreude combines the prefix vor (similar to the English prefix "pre") and Freude (joy, pleasure). T...

Reminder: The Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity exhibition closed on Jan. 25 at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. I've been the...

A Salonlöwe ("lounge lion") is a socialite displaying more style than substance (all that attention paid to hair!). Eine Person...

The Liebeskummer thread drifted at the end into comments by me on the avalanche of English words currently hitting German. I think this top...