Monday, July 1, 2013

Words of the month: Sippenhaft, Sippenhaftung

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Word of the Month: Index A Sippe is an extended family, a clan. Haftung means "liability" and Haft "imprisonment" o...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Learning a Foreign Language Through Poetry

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Guest post by Laraine Flemming Laraine's text is longer than my usual posts and therefore opens in a new window . I wholeheartedly ag...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Word of the Month: Unglücksrabe

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Word of the Month: Index A Pechvogel was the first 'compound creature' I drew and posted on my blog. I'm finally getting ar...
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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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