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Travels in Southern Germany (mostly)
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
When short words are too long
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This evening we went to the last summer organ concert in St. Peter and heard Raymond O'Donnell playing Clerambault, Stanford, Buxtehude,...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
"The Awful German Language"
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In 1880, Mark Twain claimed to have spent at least nine weeks trying to learn German. His observations about The Awful German Language are ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thanks y'all
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Sehr Geehrte Leserinnen und Leser ("very honorable readeresses and readers"): Thanks for all the feedback on the blog, both via co...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Scoping out the 'hood
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Today in a brochure about kids' summer camps, I read a word even longer than Hochsicherheitsgefangene: Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz. A wh...
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