Friday, April 1, 2011

Word of the month: Prinzipienreiter

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Prinzip is German for “principle” and a Reiter is a “rider” (of horses). Hitch the two words together, and you have a person who acts on p...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Word of the month: Schnapsdrossel

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Word of the Month: Index Another addition to the KrautBlog aviary: Schnaps (one p!) should be known to English speakers—it's a gener...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Word of the month: Wutbürger

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The Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language) made Wutbürger its word of the year for 2010. The term combines Wu...
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Chickadee Desperado

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I shot a frontal portrait of a chickadee yesterday that just had to be enhanced as shown. To my German friends: A chickadee is a Kohlmeise .
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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Words of the month: Bücherwurm, Leseratte

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Bücher is the plural of Buch (book), and a Bücherwurm is the German equivalent of the English "bookworm"—a person who has no l...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Wikileaks: My Two Cents

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I have a perspective on this issue (based in part on observations I made when I was living in Germany) that I see rarely voiced—that's w...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Word of the month: Leitkultur

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I selected the present word of the month after reading, in translation, Jürgen Habermas's essay Leadership and Leitkultur , which recen...
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