When Tourism Queensland were narrowing down their search for an Islands Caretaker – described as the best job in the world – it made the Nürnberger Nachrichten, as a woman from Nürnberg was on the shortlist.

It was won by Ben Southall from the UK Deutsch English.

Ben’s video can be seen at YouTube.

So can the video of another applicant, Osama.

1. Adorno’s Minima Moralia in a translation by Dennis Redmond is online (tweeted by NOVALanguages).

2. LinkedIn wanted translators to work for it for free, basically. Some translators on Twitter (especially Matthew Bennett and Chris Irwin) took this up, and this led to an article in the New York Times. (See ProZ thread)

3. The book Jurists Uprooted: German-Speaking Emigré Lawyers in Twentieth Century Britain: German-Speaking Emigre Lawyers in Twentieth Century Britain edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhold Zimmermann appeared in 2004. At amazon, it’s possible to see the table of contents. There’s now a 30-page review by Vivian Grosswald Curran of the University of Pittsburgh School of Lawthat can be downloaded as a PDF file and is very informative on the contents (the book isn’t cheap) (via Legal History Blog)

August 2008:

June 2009:

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.