I knew it was windy last night, but I didn’t realize it had come to this – a picture of Fürth from the Sparkasse webcam at about twenty to five p.m., Central European time:
(Via zonebattler’s homezone)
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Weblog on German-English legal translation, no longer from Fürth
“One wonders what his German sounded like:”
That would depend on the cod: dried, pickled or salted, but V’s an Z’s probably featured prominently.
I think the vid reappeared on the NotW site. As I recall it was Escape from Colditz-style German and all the interesting bits were cut out. Most amusing though.
As Max was sent by his father Oswald to school in Bavaria, of all places, his non-charades German is in fact reported to be extremely good. PS My German Professor at UniS, a Heidelberg academic arrested by the Gestapo at 6.00 a.m. in the morning 70 years ago for a pro-British Constitution & democracy lecture, claimed Oswald was a greater orator than Adolf H.