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Various tidbits
Feb. 4th, 2007 03:02 pmI'm in the middle of marking hell and have decided to take a break. I've got nothing to say of great interest, but there are some little things I want to share.
I went to the car wash yesterday and now my car is shiny and sparkly again. I don't know why, but I love going through the car wash. You don't have to do anything - the car moves on its own, there's lots of water splashing on your car and then there are the huge swirly things (is there a word for them? They're not really brushes, are they?). In a way, I think it's very sexy. The boyfriend reckons that's weird. Is there anything that you feel is erotic, but that's not really connected to sex?
Last night they showed the first two episodes of Life on Mars on German tv - dubbed of course. I caught bits and pieces of it. I marvelled at the camera work and was impressed that they got the voices about right. We'll see how it fares on German television. I'm not sure that it will appeal to audiences here.
Many Germans think that we're using too many English words instead of German ones. While I think it's true that advertising slogans don't need to be in English, I think that there are some words that we should adopt. The Aktion für lebendiges Deutsch is always looking for replacements for English terms. They do like some words that we've adopted, but don't like others - sometimes without any good reason. They've been looking for a word to replace Slogan which I learned on Balderdash and Piffle isn't really English, but comes from Gaelic and in its original form meant battle cry. It's a good word as it is and Spruch - their replacement - is just too plain. Currently they're appealing to the public to find a German word for Spam - not the meat, but the emails. Anyone who has seen the Monty Python sketch would be very sad indeed to lose that lovely term. I know that the French are trying to keep their language free from more English words. Any opinions on this you would like to share?
I also watched another episode of 24 and am now wondering why the writers seem to think that an educated black person is also an expert pick-pocket and has no trouble swiping a mobile phone from someone else's pocket.
I went to the car wash yesterday and now my car is shiny and sparkly again. I don't know why, but I love going through the car wash. You don't have to do anything - the car moves on its own, there's lots of water splashing on your car and then there are the huge swirly things (is there a word for them? They're not really brushes, are they?). In a way, I think it's very sexy. The boyfriend reckons that's weird. Is there anything that you feel is erotic, but that's not really connected to sex?
Last night they showed the first two episodes of Life on Mars on German tv - dubbed of course. I caught bits and pieces of it. I marvelled at the camera work and was impressed that they got the voices about right. We'll see how it fares on German television. I'm not sure that it will appeal to audiences here.
Many Germans think that we're using too many English words instead of German ones. While I think it's true that advertising slogans don't need to be in English, I think that there are some words that we should adopt. The Aktion für lebendiges Deutsch is always looking for replacements for English terms. They do like some words that we've adopted, but don't like others - sometimes without any good reason. They've been looking for a word to replace Slogan which I learned on Balderdash and Piffle isn't really English, but comes from Gaelic and in its original form meant battle cry. It's a good word as it is and Spruch - their replacement - is just too plain. Currently they're appealing to the public to find a German word for Spam - not the meat, but the emails. Anyone who has seen the Monty Python sketch would be very sad indeed to lose that lovely term. I know that the French are trying to keep their language free from more English words. Any opinions on this you would like to share?
I also watched another episode of 24 and am now wondering why the writers seem to think that an educated black person is also an expert pick-pocket and has no trouble swiping a mobile phone from someone else's pocket.
