Because somebody has to admire them.
PS: I’m taking my sabbatical year now, for a few weeks. It’s time for a Schaffenspause (creative break). And no, it has nothing at all to do with those last few posts of mine. Enfach so. See you soon or something.
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.
Alarmed passers-by (and they are very easy to alarm here) immediately called the cops and the fire department and who the hell knows else and everybody came hurrying by with sirens blasting ready to evacuate half the town and, well, the kids got in trouble.
„Die Sechsjährigen hatten sich nach Polizeiangaben einen “Atommeiler” aus einem Computergehäuse gebastelt und auf dessen Seitenteil ein Schild geklebt, das vor Radioaktivität warnt.“
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.
One international analysis indicates that only 1.4 percent of Germans are currently considering founding their own company. Some 2.4 percent actually did so sometime during the past three years. Of the 18 countries analyzed, only Belgium did worse.
„Damit belegt Deutschland laut IAB innerhalb von 18 vergleichbar entwickelten Ländern den vorletzten Platz. Besonders viele Firmengründer gebe es demnach in den USA, Schlusslicht sei Belgien.“
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Selbstverständlich.
“It’s hard to see what part of the German nationality Baron Cohen was attempting to illustrate, unless it was nudism.”
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.
On the other hand, it’s perfectly alright to sell tens of thousands of police service revolvers that are no longer needed. Hey, money doesn’t stink you know. And it’s good for the cash-strapped government and all that.
Hmmm. White German man speak with forked tongue.
“Einerseits setzten sich Politiker für eine Verschärfung des Waffenrechts ein, andererseits überschwemmten sie den legalen Waffenmarkt.”
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Selbstverständlich.
The latest survey says that 87% feel good about the German language, 47% even love the awful thing (just kidding, that was Mark Twain). They’re not too crazy about all the English or Genglish creeping into it, however, nor do they care much for all this modern and far too short, text message-like speak everybody is twittering around with these days.
Nor do they care for the so-called Saxon (eastern German) dialect. Some 30% of Germans asked say they don’t care to hear it all, but this could be more political than anything else. Which is reason enough, I suppose.
“Wir hatten wirklich nicht mit so positiven Gefühlen gerechnet.”
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Klar doch.
But the artists – and the subject matter - will definitely do the rest.
„Work began Tuesday to repaint Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s passionate kiss with East German strongman Eric Honecker on the longest-surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall.“
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.
Actress Tilda Swinton will be biking along the same ex-Berlin Wall route she and filmmaker Cynthia Beatt took ten years ago when they filmed the wall that wasn’t there then, either. This Gesamtkunstwerk (total art form) will then be put together in a piece to be called “Cycling the Invisible Frame.”
Whatever. But if I were her I would take it easier on myself and travel along what used to be the Berlin Wall on what used to be a bike – and take a car instead.
“The title refers to the fact that most of the wall has been torn down, though many Germans still speak of an invisible wall in the minds dividing east and west Germany.“
Kommentare auf Deutsch? Klar.
