I really do not intend to get involved in political discussion on this blog. I take both SPD and CSU free biros and bumph outside on Saturdays.
Still, I would just like to say some women seem very odd to me (and I’m not referring to Angela Merkel). How can someone call three of their children Donata, Gracia and Egmont?
Probleme beim Übersetzen in eine andere Sprache als die der Word-Version.
I use German Windows XP Pro and German Word for Windows 2002. I get a German file marked as German language from a client. The inverted commas are German
Ausgangstext
How do I get English inverted commas? I can get them if I change them one by one, but not with search and replace.
One thing I might try: first, automatically change all inverted commas to non-typographical:
Mark the text as English language. Then set the AutoFormat options to change non-typographical inverted commas to typographical inverted commas, and to do it on the fly.
Then automatically, with search and replace, replace ” with “.
This only works in the English version of Word. In the German version, although the language has been set to English and the inverted commas stripped of their typographical quality, it seems they still remember what they once were.
I can confirm this because I tried it on an English version of Word and Windows and it worked. And a German colleague in Britain has the problem in reverse.
Someone else said there are differences in Word between the American, British and Australian versions going beyond what you would expect.
Dominik Kreuzer has some macros.
Note also his glossary of Translation and interpreting vocabulary.
bq. His grandfather was a tailor, his grandmother a school teacher. Rehnquist grew up in Wisconsin, the son of paper salesman and a translator. …
bq. In 1952, he graduated first in his class at Stanford University’s law school, where he briefly dated O’Connor, the high court’s first female justice.
bq. Rehnquist caused great amusement when he departed from tradition by adding four shiny gold stripes to each sleeve of his black robe in 1995. The flourish was inspired by a costume in a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta.
How did I miss this for so long?
I wonder how many of those CDs they sell?
Via mimi smartypants, who writes:
bq. The first vegetable orchestra, which I actually found by Googling “vegetable orchestra” for no reason at all. You can read it in English by clicking at the top of the page. I just think the German page is funnier, somehow, even though I do not speak or read German.
It has been reported that Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died at the age of 80. There had been speculations as to his retiring on account of thyroid cancer.
Hearings are about to start for Judge John Roberts, nominated by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
But why was he called William Hubbs Rehnquist when he was born William Donald Rehnquist? Here is a partial answer:
bq. On the bench one day, the chief justice also divulged a long-kept secret. During an oral argument, a question arose about someone’s middle name. Chief Justice Rehnquist scribbled a note to his colleagues and passed it along. He was not born William Hubbs Rehnquist, the name the world knows him by.
“I was once William D. (Donald) until I changed my middle name in high school to H (Hubbs my grandmother’s maiden name,” he wrote.
I was tempted last year by the Pocket Opera Company doing Purcell and Bussotti in the abandoned Fürth waste incineration plant (operational for only 4 weeks, with one serious incident). I think the audience have to do some climbing and moving around too, though. But it’s ‘Germany’s largest opera house’, and you mustn’t wear full evening attire.
