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Occasional musings, Geistesblitze, photos, drawings etc. by a "resident alien", who has landed on American soil from a far-away planet called "Germany".

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Three Literary Parodies and an Homage

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I've finally found the time to collect, in one place, the literary "finger exercises" occasioned by the MOOC (massive open onl...

Friday, February 1, 2013

Word of the Month: Pleitegeier

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Word of the Month: Index Pleite means "bankrupt" as an adjective and "bankruptcy" as a noun. A Geier is a vulture....

Monday, January 21, 2013

How to Pronounce German "ch"

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There is quite a bit of misinformation out there on the web when it comes to the way German speakers pronounce "ch," a digraph (pa...

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Wild Things... now available as iBook

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And if I may say so myself, it looks great in iBooks on the iPad. iBooks Author, which I used to produce this version, makes it easy to add...

Friday, January 4, 2013

Word of the Month: Verlegenheitslösung

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A Verlegenheit is a difficulty one may find oneself in, tinged with a whiff of embarrassment, and a Lösung is a solution. In combination, ...

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Word of the Month: Schmierfink

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Word of the Month: Index A Schmierfink is a close relative of a Schmutzfink , whom we have already encountered (WoM Nov. 2010). Schmie...

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Word of the Month: Schnapsidee

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I figure, after what we went through with Sandy, a little lightheartedness is in order. Schnaps (one "p"!) is any hard liquor, an...

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