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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".

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Word of the Month: Treppenwitz

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Word of the Month: Index A Treppe is a stair(case), and Witz means "joke." In combination, they indicate an event that, in ret...

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Word of the Month: Sündenbock

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Word of the Month: Index Sünden means "sins," and a Bock is a male goat in this context. Sündenbock is used in German in exa...

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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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