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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".

Friday, August 21, 2015

Word of the Month: Die Profilneurose

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Word of the Month: Index German Profil means, first of all, a side view of something, especially of the head of somebody. In that sense, ...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Palladio on the Long Island Sound

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Word of the Month: Das Bauernopfer

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Word of the Month: Index Here's another term that originated in chess and made it into wider usage from there (cf. Zugzwang , Ja...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Word of the Month: Der Korinthenkacker

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Korinthen are very small and dark raisins (named after Korinth , German for Corinth, the town in Greece that gave those special raisins th...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Word of the Month: Der Dünnbrettbohrer

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Word of the Month: Index It's time to up the ante and introduce a word consisting of three compounds. In the present case, they a...
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Friday, March 20, 2015

Rumpelstiltskin: The Initial Version

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Following my post on parallels I saw between Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Rumpelstiltskin , I dug a little deep...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Word of the Month: Die Wortklauberei

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Word of the Month: Index Wort means "word" and Klauberei is a noun derived form the verb klauben —to carefully pick over or so...
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