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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".

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Word of the Month: Buchschmuck

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Word of the Month: Index We know by now that a Buch is a book. Schmuck means "jewelry", both the precious stuff you possess ...

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Wagner Heralds the Arrival of May

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If April is the cruellest month, May is the loveliest, at least for those who—like my wife and I—were born in it. This is how Siegmund rapt...

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Word of the Month: Die Kampfsau, das Kampfschwein

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Word of the Month: Index Just in time for the beginning of the most exciting phase of the soccer year in Europe—The final stages of the ...

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Word of the Month: Torschlusspanik

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Word of the Month: Index I was reminded of this word when Kathleen Kiesel Cozzarelli sent me an e-mail inquiry about it, and it is a very ...

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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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