The ADÜ-Nord Infoblatt reminded me to repeat my earlier entry:
Die Flüsterer – The Whisperers – La voix des autres
Ein Film von David Bernet und Christian Beetz
80/57/45/30 Min. WDR/RB/arte, TSR, ETV, RTV, LRT, YLE. Gefördert von der Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nordmedia GmbH und MEDIA 2005. Unterstützt durch AICC.
Sendetermin auf ARTE: Samstag, 22. Oktober 2005, 17.50 Uhr (looks more like 17.35)
For anyone who gets arte in Germany, it’s worth seeing and shows interpreters at work.
Review of Dietl DE>EN (in German).
Ich wurde vom ADÜ-Nord gebeten, eine Rezension der neuen Auflage vom Dietl/Lorenz Rechtswörterbuch zu schreiben. Die Rezension steht in der neuesten Ausgabe des immer sehr interessanten und online zu findenden Infoblatts. Bei www.adue-nord.de zuerst auf Publikationen, dann auf Infoblatt klicken – und dabei nicht die anderen Angebote übersehen.
Darin noch unter anderem interessante Informationen zu Gerichtsentscheidung über Bezahlung an Übersetzer und Dolmetscher unter dem JVEG.
Further to the last entry, Ede & Ravenscroft, who supply court dress, have an FAQ:
bq. Q: What is the difference between the judges bench wig and the judges full-bottomed wig?
A: Judges wear the bench wig when they are sitting in court. It is a short wig that is frizzed all over and has two tails at the back. The full-bottomed wig is only worn on ceremonial occasions with full ceremonial dress. It is not worn in court by judges when they are hearing a case.
(What is a red bag? was news to me)
Wonderful illustrations in this 78-page PDF booklet called Legal Habits.
I learnt from the FAQ that the pouch at the back of a barrister’s gown is not, after all, for fees, but used to hold a hood.
Here’s a shallower link, with more photos.
And here’s a German equivalent.
For some reason best know to itself, the local paper had an article comparing criminal procedure throughout Europe on the front of their Magazin section at the weekend (Click to enlarge).
There is it again – that hackneyed old scene of the judges in their ceremonial wigs, probably at the Lord Chancellor’s Breakfast. I’m not sure what it tells us about criminal justice in Europe, though.
The topic of the article is: Germany has a very large proportion of judges, and they are overworked. So how do other countries manage with fewer (professional) judges?
German judges write more (in England you have the oral pronouncement of judgment, backed up by a transcript by a court reporter).
German courts have more witnesses physically present in court (at least in comparison with the Netherlands, Italy and France – I suspect not in comparison with Britain)
In German courts, it is easiest to use applications/motions to drag out proceedings
In Germany, special expedited proceedings are possible only for minor offences; elsewhere, if the accused agrees, expedited proceedings are possible when more is at stake.
Hanzi Smatter is a blog about the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture. With pictures – here’s a rug with the signs of the Chinese zodiac all shown as mirror images:
It is apparently a two-sided rug, so it was easy to place it differently.
Denglisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (via Translationfound)
This Fruchtbringendes Wörterbuch could be very useful indeed. I have more than once had to translate Denglisch into English, and first of all I had to work out what it was supposed to mean. That can be difficult. It’s a shame that many contributors don’t know whether an English term is pseudo or not.
bq. Viele Wörter sehen aus, als wären sie englischen bzw. amerikanischen Ursprungs, werden aber von Menschen mit englischer Muttersprache nicht verstanden. Beispiele für pseudoenglische Wörter sind Showmaster, Handy, Oldtimer oder besonders peinlich Dressman.
Actually I missed the word Talkmaster, so I added it.
Some of the entries will be genuine English; in fact, far too many of them are. But that doesn’t matter to me as long as it gives good definitions of the words I need to translate (of course, it doesn’t always give good definitions, but that’s life, I suppose. It mentions Showmaster and defines it as Gastgeber. I defined Talkmaster as Moderator).
I noticed recently that Tchibo, who now sell in Britain too, were selling a magnetic notebook-holder, and in the picture someone had written ‘Toast’ as the first word of a shopping list. I suppose this was meant to work globally, but whereas a German might write ‘Toast’ or ‘Toastbrot’ on a shopping list, a British person wouldn’t.