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Asparagus season begins/Spargelzeit eröffnet
Here’s a photo showing the story on the front of the local paper. But the really good photo of this scene is inside the paper – see the article Noch ist es dem Spargel zu kalt. I wish I’d been there...
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Nine years/Neun Jahre
This evening, scenes of extraordinary jubilation on the streets of Fürth ostensibly marked the football team’s ascent to the first division. But readers know they were really celebrating Transblawg’s...
View Article“Immissions”/Immissionen
Every few years I get a text with an environmental element and I have read so many people using the non-existent English word immissions that I begin to wonder if I am going mad. German has this nice...
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Antitransblawg on Twitter: how not to translate from German to English, mainly legal vocabulary. Tweets should appear in the right-hand margin (still working on that).
View ArticleSolicitor/Rechtsanwalt
On Antitransblawg I started by saying: don’t translate Rechtsanwalt as solicitor. Comments and questions are welcome in tweets. There won’t always be explanations here. But: 1. In England and Wales,...
View ArticleLiability of Google/YouTube/Störerhaftung
The recent decision of the Hamburg Regional Court on GEMA v. YouTube has been variously reported in English – for instance by Birgit Clark on IPKat. In this decision, a wonderful legal translation...
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Sheep/Wanderschäferei
Here are some pictures taken in the Stadtpark recently, showing a curious feature of Germany – shepherds sometimes turn up in the middle of town with their flock. I wonder what roads they come along?...
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Psychological test for drivers/MPU
This is just some background information on Germany. The photo is not easy to read, but it says that Traffic Psychologist Wolfgang Roth can prepare you for the Medizinisch-Psychologische Untersuchung...
View ArticleCatherine Translates: Questionnaire for fellow translator-bloggers/Fragebogen...
A couple of weeks ago, on Catherine Translates, Catherine Jan had a post called 10 questions for fellow bloggers. There are now 44 comments, although not 44 replies. I thought it was interesting. It...
View ArticleComments/Kommentare
I don’t get many comments on this site at the moment. This is partly because I accidentally barred all comments for several months when I was dealing with comment spam. At the moment, comments have...
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