MDÜ legal terminology/Rechtsterminologie 3
The second MDÜ article on legal terminology is by Monika von Kurzynski and Anne-Kristin Langner and comes from a BA dissertation done at Hildesheim University. It’s about the differences in legal...
View ArticleCat ladders/Katzentreppen
I used to have a picture of a catladder at a prison in Bavaria – it led into a first-floor cell. I can’t find it to blog, though. So make do with this blog of pictures of catladders.
View ArticleElective Affinities/Die Wahlverwandtschaften
I rather enjoy Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften, but I don’t know how it would come over to an English reader new to German literature of the eighteenth century. To quote the Oxford World Classics...
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Battle of Teutoburg Forest/Varusschlacht
2000th anniversary coming up: here’s a travel agency sign: I actually translated a booklet on Kalkriese many years ago. Kalkriese as the location of this particular battle is now a subject of scholarly...
View ArticleGerman law links/Links zu deutschem Recht
Verzeichnis zu juristischen Ressourcen im Netz: www.juraklicks.de This might be by the jurabilis…! people as it has this as its first blog: …jurabilis! Eleganter Weblog mit kulturellem Anspruch. Inhalt...
View ArticleJeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon. Wikipedia: The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is...
View ArticleEulita + (Euleta)
Eulita, the European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, recently conceived, is being founded and having a conference in Antwerp on November 26-28. It does look good, although I don’t know...
View ArticleStandardized planting/Silbersommer
An article in Fürther Nachrichten (with photo) describes the planting of areas like traffic islands here with a mixture called Silbersommer. These are plants that like it dry (and this is a...
View ArticleFacebook wants to patent community translation/Facebook möchte...
There’s been a lot of criticism of Facebook’s use of crowdsourcing in translation and desire not to pay translators. Now it appears that Facebook long since applied to patent this method.
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Election posters/Wahlplakate 2009
Fürth is slowly gearing up for the election campaign (it’s still the middle of the school holidays in Bavaria): A party for me: Reichtum für alle sounds good too: On the way out of town, where it’s...
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