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Legal English blogs/Blogs zur englischen Rechtssprache

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I’ve mentioned weblogs on legal English before, I think, and I’ve certainly mentioned Jeremy Day’s blog on English for Specific Purposes, Specific English. But I haven’t yet put them on my blogroll, although I think they must be highly relevant here.

Here is a link to the legal English entries on Jeremy’s blog. The latest one, My first and worst legal English lesson, is a great description of what can go wrong when you present yourself as more expert than you are – certainly a risk not only for non-lawyers teaching legal English, but for lawyers too. If you’re helping lawyers to improve their English, you don’t have to be the source of legal knowledge, but the facilitator.

The entry earlier than that, Legal English blogs, is a whole year old and gives links to other blogs on legal English (including Transblawg!).

And here’s another one: English for Law, by CKL, with many suggestions for teaching materials sources.

Slow blogging/Viele Pausen

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There’s probably no point in saying that blogging may be slow in the next few weeks, since it has also been slow in the last few weeks.

I have added a photo to the entry where you can buy the Pope for your train set, and another to the entry with the ad for a Fürth lawyer.

It seems to me that blogging is slowing down. Some German weblogs, meanwhile, seem to be mutating into food blogs when they weren’t before. This is not a food blog, so I won’t give the recipes for recent successes – sucking pig’s head before and after, and coconut pyramids:

Biting the hand that feeds you/Wenn Übersetzer den Kunden beleidigen

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In Neukunden-Magnet, unter der Überschrift Entspammung vor dem Wochenende, beschreibt Thomas Kilian, wie er zweimal von einem Übersetzer angeschrieben wurde und zitiert den heftigen E-Mail-Austausch dazu.

Die Kommentare sind auch lesenswert.

This German blog entry quotes enough emails in English to show a translator’s overreaction after the blog author objected to receiving advertising of the translator’s services twice.

Via Susanne Aldridge

German-American Day Blawg Review

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Andis Kaulins’ blawg review for German-American Day, recently mentioned here, has now appeared.

There are a large number of links on matters German, some of them German and law, for example the German American Law Journal (note in its English version an entry on an article by Dr. Jessica Ohle on Recent Trends in German Employee Compensation. And let’s not forget the similarly-named German Law Journal, another excellent resource.

Scroll down (passing the non-German law links) for a large number of further transatlantic links.

Famous German-Americans are mentioned, although not including the three famous bankers from Franconia: Lehmann, Goldmann and Sachs.

Drei Banker von Weltruhm – alle drei waren sie Juden, die keine Perspektive mehr sahen in Unterfranken, Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert. Keine Zukunft, kaum Spielraum – die Gesetze für Juden waren hier sehr streng. Jüdische Bürger konnten sich nicht einfach niederlassen oder heiraten, wenn sie wollten. Sie durften keinen Beruf erlernen. Zahlen mussten sie aber – Steuern und Sonderabgaben für alles und nichts. Heinrich Lehmann, Marcus Goldmann, beide Söhne von Viehhändler, wollten so nicht leben.

German-American Day Blawg Review/Blawg Review Deutsch-amerikanisch

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German law blogs can take part on October 6, which is apparently German-American Day. This is a day when Americans put on their Lederhosen and pretend they are in Munich, I believe.

Any German blawgs that would like to be showcased and linked next Monday presumably have to have an entry written in English (?). They can submit this by Saturday October 4 but ideally even earlier.

Blawg Review explains itself on its site. I am probably not the person to explain it. It is a kind of blog carnival.

Here is an earlier Blawg Review, hosted on the New York Personal Injury Law Blog and based on the New York Marathon (with a link to the longest urinal in the world).

Here is the gen on Blawg Review for German American Day.

And here is the LawPundit blog where Blawg Review will appear, perhaps in a later time zone than CET.

The host of Blawg Review in this case is Andis Kaulins, an American lawyer who has taught American law, legal writing and legal research at Trier University and also translates. I imagine one has to hope that Andis will showcase one’s submission.

You will note that LawPundit blog offers Google automatic translation into German, thus:

Bavarian State Elections Point to Populist Turmoil in German Politics : Free Voters Coalition Comes out of Nowhere to Win 10% of the Bavarian Vote
Bayerische Staatsoper Wahlen Point-to-Populistische Turbulenzen in der deutschen Politik: Freie Wähler Koalition kommt aus dem Nichts zu Win 10% der bayerischen Abstimmung

The populist emergence of Sarah Palin of Alaska as the Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party in America is not an isolated phenomenon of the USA.
Die populistische Auftreten von Sarah Palin von Alaska als Vize-Präsidentschafts-Kandidat der Republikanischen Partei in Amerika ist kein isoliertes Phänomen der USA.

I think I might take Gabriele Pauli over Sarah Palin.

The funny thing is, lots of German blogs appear in English, or a form thereof, but those are directed at readers outside Germany, whereas German law blogs tend to be in German – it makes sense to me!

But Blawg Review would be glad to have more German law blogs linked.

(Entry corrected after publication on account of a number of errors)

Uppercase ß/Neuer Buchstabe

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Some topics I mentioned earlier have been taken up elsewhere recently.

Uppercase ß: earlier entry

I was a bit early on this. The way for capital ß has now been opened (Tagesspiegel)

Düsseldorf/ Berlin – Die letzte Lücke im deutschen Alphabet ist geschlossen – zumindest technisch. Das ß gibt es nun auch als Großbuchstaben erstmals verankert in den internationalen Zeichensätzen ISO-10646 und Unicode 5.1. Es hat dort den Platz mit der Bezeichnung 1E9E. Das bestätigten das Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN) und die Internationale Organisation für Normung (ISO). Die Änderung werde in Kürze veröffentlicht, sagte ein ISO-Sprecher. Damit hatte ein Antrag der DIN-Leute, eine Norm für das große ß zu schaffen, teilweise Erfolg.

As Cherry point out, it’s not so easy on the keyboard.

See also Bremer Sprachblog

LATER NOTE: see this justification for uppercase ß (quoted in comments; English)