Deutscher Sprachrat gegründet (von Bruno Aeschbacher, swisstrans, aus der NZZ zitiert).
From Bruno Aeschbacher, who runs the Swiss translators’ group (swisstrans) at Yahoogroups, an article in the Neue Züricher Zeitung says a German language council is to be formed – this was decided by the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, the Goethe Institut Inter Nationes and the Institut für deutsche Sprache. From the last, a press release in German. The Deutscher Sprachrat has its own website, at present consisting of one page.

Deutscher Sprachrat gegründet (von Bruno Aeschbacher, swisstrans, aus der NZZ zitiert).
From Bruno Aeschbacher, who runs the Swiss translators’ group (swisstrans) at Yahoogroups, an article in the Neue Züricher Zeitung says a German language council is to be formed – this was decided by the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, the Goethe Institut Inter Nationes and the Institut für deutsche Sprache. From the last, a press release in German. The Deutscher Sprachrat has its own website, at present consisting of one page.

I am posting some pictures from a walk here in Fürth yesterday (click on image to enlarge).

Since the German spelling reform, we are approaching something like the 17th-century freedom to spell in whatever way we feel like spelling. I like the word pinckel, although I don’t think it’s logically spelt. I don’t like the punctuation, although at least there are never more than three exclamation marks.

This picture may be evidence that this kind of German is used by speakers of German as a second language themselves sometimes, and not only by Germans when talking to foreigners. Continue reading →

I am posting some pictures from a walk here in Fürth yesterday (click on image to enlarge).

Since the German spelling reform, we are approaching something like the 17th-century freedom to spell in whatever way we feel like spelling. I like the word pinckel, although I don’t think it’s logically spelt. I don’t like the punctuation, although at least there are never more than three exclamation marks.

This picture may be evidence that this kind of German is used by speakers of German as a second language themselves sometimes, and not only by Germans when talking to foreigners. Continue reading →

Via Ernie the Attorney, who keeps a weblog etc. list, Sean Carter, a legal ‘humorist’. An example of his writing can be seen here, and a video clip of him in action here. I couldn’t understand a word of the clip, but it gave a good impression. Every week, he presents a new multiple choice Black Man’s Law Dictionary Challenge. Continue reading →

Via Ernie the Attorney, who keeps a weblog etc. list, Sean Carter, a legal ‘humorist’. An example of his writing can be seen here, and a video clip of him in action here. I couldn’t understand a word of the clip, but it gave a good impression. Every week, he presents a new multiple choice Black Man’s Law Dictionary Challenge. Continue reading →