Professional translation with (sic) over 150 languages.

I’m trying to define the word professional. It’s like in sports and prostitution, where you do it for money.

Ich bin nicht so der Übersetzer Mein Deutsch ist nicht so toll, aber wir bieten tranlsations der Dokumente, Web-Seiten und was auch immer Sie möchten. Wir bieten Ihnen über 150 Sprachen und unsere Preise sind super!

Kontaktieren Sie uns noch heute Ihr kostenloses Angebot!
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No wonder his German is not perfect if he has to do 149 other languages too. There’s a list of the languages at the blogspot address:

SothoNorthern, Sorbian, Songhai, Somba, Somali, Sogdien, Slovenian, Slovak, Slavic (Other) Swati (Swaziland), Siswant, Siouanlanguages, Sino-Tibetan, Sinhala, sindhi, siksika, sign language, Sidamo, shona, shan, Sesotho (S. Sotho) serer, Serbo-Croatian, Serbian, Semitic (Other) selkup, Scots, Sardinian, Sanskrit, sango, sandawe, Samoan, Sami languages, Samaritan Aramaic, Salishanlanguages, Russian, Rundi, Romany, Romanian, Romance (Other), Rhaeto-Rom (Romansch) Rarotongan, Rajasthani, Quechua, Pushto, ProvencalOld (to1500) Prakritlanguages, Portuguese, Polish, Pohnpeian, Phoenician, PersianOld (ca600-400B.C.), Persian (Farsi ), Papua-Australia (Other), the papiamento, Panjabi, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Pali, Palauan, Pahlavi, Ovambo, Ottoman Otomianlanguages, Ossetic, Osage, Oromo, Oriya, Ojibwe, nzima, nyoro, nyankole, Nyanja, nyamwezi , Nubianlanguages, Norwegian (Nynorsk) Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian, NorthAmerican Indian (Other), Norse, Niuean, Nilo-Saharan (Other), Nigeria, Niger-Kordofanian (Other), Newari, Nepali, Ndongo, NdebeleSouth, North Ndebele , Navajo, Nauru, Nahuatl (Aztec), Muong, Mundalanguages, Multiple languages, Mossi, Mordvinian, Mongolian, Mongo, Mon-Khmer (Other) Moldavian, mohawk, Mixtecos, minangkabau, micmac, Miao, Meo, Mende, Mbundu, Mayan languages, masai, marwari, Marshall, Mari, Marathi, Maori, the Isle of Man, Manobolanguages, Manipuri, mandingo, Maltese, Dutch, Malayalam, Malay, Malagasy, Makasar, Maithili, Magahi, Madurese, Macedonian, Luo (Kenya, Tanzania), Lunda, Luiseno, Luba-Katanga, lozi, Lithuanian, lingala, Lezghian, Luxemburgish, Latvian, Latin, Laos, Langued’Oc, lamba, lahnda, Ladino, kutenai, Kusaie, kurukh, Kurdish, kumyk, kuanyama, Kru, Kpelle, Korean, konkani, kongo, Komi, klingon, kirghiz, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Khotanese, Khoisan (Other), Khmer, Khasi, Kazakh, Kayah, Kawi, Kashubian, Kashmiri, Karen, Karakalpak, kanuri, Kannada (Kanarese) kamba, Kalmyk-Oirat, Kadazan, Kachin, kabyle, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Javanese, Japanese, Italian, Iroquoian languages, Old Irish (to 900), the Irish Middle (900-1200), the Irish, the Iranian (Other), Inupiak, Inuktitut, interlingue, interlingua, Indonesia, Indochina, Europe (Other), Indic (Other) Iloko, Ijo, Igbo, Icelandic, Iban, I-Kiribati, Hupa, Hungarian, hmong, HiriMotu , hindi, Himachali, Hiligaynon, herero, Hebrew, Hawaiian, hausa, Haitian-Creole, Haida, gujarati, Guarani, Greenland, Greek (Ancient), Greek, Grebo, gothic, Gondi, Gilbertese, former High German (ca.750 – 1050), German Middle High (ca.1050-1500) Germanic (Other), German, Georgian, Geez, Gayo, ganda, Galician, Gaelic, Ga, Fulani, Fula, Friulian, Frisian, Old French (842 — ca.1400), the French Middle (ca.1400-1600), French, Formosa, Fon, Flemish, Finno-Ugrian (Other), Finnish, Fijian, Farsi (Persian), the Faroe Islands, Fanti (Fante ), Fang, Fanagalo, ewondo, Ewe, Estonian, Esperanto, Eskimo (Other), Old English (ca.450 – 1100), English Middle (ca.1100-1500), English, Elamite, ekajuk, Egyptian (ancient) Efik, dzongkha, Dyula, Dutch Middle (ca.1050-1350), Dutch, Duala, Dravidian (Other) dogri, Divehi, dinka, Dida, Delaware, dayak, Dari, Danish, Damara, Dakota, Czech, Cushitic (Other ), Croatian, Creoles and Pidgins (Portuguese-based Other) Creoles and Pidgins (Other) Creoles and Pidgins (French-based Other) Creoles and Pidgins (English-based Other), Creek, Cree, Corsican, Cornish, Coptic, the Cook Islands Maori, Chuvash, Chuukese, Church Slavic, Choctaw, Chinookjargon, Chinese, Chin, chibcha, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Chechen, Chamorro, Cham, Chagatai, Central American Indian (Other), Celtic (Other) Cebuano (Bisayan), Caucasian (Other), the Catalan, the Caribbean, Caddo, Myanmar, Buriat, Bulgarian, Bugie, Breton, Braj, Brahui, Bosnian, bislama, Bini, Bikol, Bihari, Bhojpuri (& Tharu) , Berber (Other), Bengali, Bemba, Belarusian, Beja, the Basque, bashkir, Basa, Bantu (Other), banda, Bamileke languages, bambara, baluchi, Baltic (Other), Balinese, Azerbaijan, Aymara, Awadhi, Avestan , Avar, Austronesian (Other), Athapascan languages, Asturian, Assamese, Artificial (Other), Armenian, Arawak, Araucanian, arapaho, Aramaic, Arabic, Apache languages, ancient Hebrew, Amharic, Altaic (Other), Algonquian languages, Aleut, Albanian, Akkadian, Akan, Afro-Asiatic (Other), the afrikaans, afrihili, Afar, adangme, acoli, achinese, Abkhazian, South American Indian (Other), Spanish, sukuma, Sumerian, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swedish, Sylheti , Syriac, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamang Tamashek, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tereno, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigre, Tigrinya, Time Tivi, Tlingit, Tonga (Nya) Tonga (TongaIslands), Truk, Tsimshian , Tsonga, Tswana, tumbuka, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Tuvinian, Twi, Ugaritic, Uighur, Ukrainian, Ulithi, Umbundu, Urdu, Uzbek Vai Valencia, Venda, Vietnamese, Volapk, Votic, Wakashanlanguages, Walamo, waray, washo , Welsh, Woleai, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yao, Yapese, Yi, yiddish, yoruba, Zapotec, Zenaga, Zhuang (Chuang) Zulu, Zuni

The most beautiful view of the city can be had from the Festung Marienberg (fortress). From the 15th-century Old Main Bridge, with its statues of the Franconian apostles of Lilian, Totnan and Kolonat, the Romanesque Cathedral dominates the view.

Found here.

I was actually wondering whether it was OK in English to refer to Kilian, Kolonat and Totnan as the Franconian apostles. Apparently it is, although this site would not persuade me.

This expression I encountered in La fille de la ville:

A few days ago, Flojindamesa over at Eat Drink Nola posted about Baru, a Caribbean/Tapas restaurant on Magazine Street. Of course after reading her post, Baader-Meinhof Syndrome set in and I saw Baru mentioned everywhere!

The meaning is obvious from the context; Wikipedia has more:

The “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” was coined by a reader of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Terry Mullen. The Minnesota newspaper runs a daily column called “Bulletin Board,” for which readers, using pseudonyms (in this case it was ‘Gigetto on Lincoln’), submit humorous or interesting anecdotes. The term was coined when Mullen submitted a story around 1986,[1] about how he first heard about the terrorist group known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang and then heard about it again a short while later from a different source.

What term do Germans use for this phenomenon? After all, Baader-Meinhof is scarcely trivial information over here.

This is a mysterious ad from the current version of the booklet announcing the BDÜ September translation conference in Berlin:

Weird. This is the best I can do for the most common pronunciation:
sım baı ‘ǝʊs ıs

The o sound in the third syllable is a bit different in the US. The second syllable suggestion is less common than mine, and the schwa in the last syllable is recorded as non-RP British in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

Mind you, their use of an o indicates they are not using the IPA. I am open to correction!

The shops in England are full of displays for Father’s Day.

The Independent, in Fritzl: a perfect gift for Father’s Day, say Tesco and WH Smith, reports that some retailers had the book The Crimes of Josef Fritzl in their Father’s Day displays:

But to some branches of Tesco and W H Smith, The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth seemed a surefire hit for the Dad market. The book, which details how the Austrian, now 74, imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in his cellar for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children, has featured as a Father’s Day promotion.

One amazon reviewer writes:

And that’s the terrifying part, you really start to understand the dysfunctional family dynamics. Dynamics that started way before Elizabeth, that were born out of the atrocities of Nazi Austria and his horrifying one-eyed mother. This is a really great read.

One Tesco shop apparently had to think twice before removing the book from the display.

This basilica is not usually part of the route from Upminster to Fürth, at least not since the Brussels orbital motorway was built. It’s a good idea to try the detour in afternoon rush-hour, so there’s time to take a photo. Photos of the King Leopold II tunnel and various immigrant grocery shops are unfortunately missing.

Here is the last food before the Eurotunnel (Folkestone side):

and here the view approaching the tunnel on the Calais side: