Found on YouTube (the tag ‘lawyer’ produces some genuine and fake ads too).

bq. Senior lawyer from Zurich shows students some old school electric boogie and break dance moves at a convention in Vienna.

Video

CNN reports:

A 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth straight appearance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee rattled off “ursprache” to claim the title of America’s best speller on prime-time television Thursday night.

Katherine Close ‘recognized the word as soon as she heard it’:

“I’m just in shock,” Katharine said. Asked what she’ll remember most, she said: “Probably just hearing ‘ursprache,’ which is a parent language.”

I wonder how they pronounced it. The runner-up was probably named to be a speller:

Runner-up was Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, a 14-year-old Canadian, a confident speller during two days of competition who stumbled on “weltschmerz,” which means sadness over the evils of the world.

I believe spelling bees are creeping into Britain. Here is a Guardian (sic) spelling quiz.

(Via Wordlab – thanks to Abnu)

I used to think the German term Fußpilz (Pilze are mushrooms and toadstools or moulds) had nothing to do with athletes, but the local pharmacist’s window suggests otherwise:

And on the same topic, I think Ikea ordered these quite some months ago – well, that explains the Turkish flag, but not the Union Flag:

This site apparently demands Firefox / Angeblich nur mit Firefox zu besuchen:

Deutsch:

bq. 10 Jahre lang hat sich der Translators’ Companion als Informationsquelle zur literarischen Übersetzung in Europa bewährt. Für die Internet-Version wurde er komplett aktualisiert und ergänzt.

bq. Wer Literatur übersetzt oder übersetzen lässt, findet im Translators’ Companion umfassende Informationen. Die Datenbank enthält detaillierte Angaben über nationale und internationale Interessenverbände, über die europäischen Übersetzerzentren sowie einige andere Häuser, in denen Übersetzende in Ruhe an einem Projekt arbeiten können, über Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote für LiteraturübersetzerInnen und schließlich über die verschiedenen Förderungsformen für literarische Übersetzungen und ÜbersetzerInnen in Europa bzw. darüber hinaus.

English:

bq. Over the past ten years the Translators’ Companion has proven itself as a source of information on literary translation in Europe. It has been completely updated and supplemented for the Internet version.

bq. Anyone who translates literature, or has it translated, will find comprehensive information in the Translators’ Companion. The database comprises details on national and international associations, European translators’ centres, including several other institutions where translators can work in peace on a project, as well as training and further education offered for literary translators, and the various forms of support available for literary translators in Europe and beyond.

(Via is a blog – at least one translator’s weblog where there’s always something going on (in German))