I thought about making this topic a Monday mystery, but the only mystery about this is a question of how popular these really are. I also thought about saving the photo until Friday, but my self-imposed Food on Fridays rule … Continue reading
Today on Monday Mysteries we take a quick look at an advertising campaign we saw in Hamburg. The mystery: did the person who created the ad know the potential for its (mis)interpretation by an English speaker?
Today on Food on Fridays we focus on a few fabulous fall festival foods, featuring freshly formed flatbreads.
Today on Monday Mysteries we take a look at a style of a pedestrian crossing sign that we spotted in Paris, one that mysteriously seems to come with a bit of an attitude.
So today I want to share something I accidentally ran across the other day when I was looking up something in a German-English dictionary.
Our weather recently here in Tübingen has been really bizarre. Last night we had a storm that lasted for hours, starting around 10pm. The thunder wasn’t really thunder – it was more like a plane flying overhead had just stalled … Continue reading
Quite a few people making speeches at a friend’s wedding recently used the expression Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet.
As you may know, I love to take photos of reflections. There was an unexpected opportunity to do that a few weeks ago, as Chris and I were floating down the Neckar River in a rowboat with our visitors from … Continue reading
Over the last 2.5 years I have learned enough basic German to feel comfortable going into stores and business and speaking an elementary level of the language. I can make appointments, return electronic goods, pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy, … Continue reading
Until Will first alerted me to a recent blog post in the NY Times, I’d never heard of the term Denglish.