Duden, the ever!
The 24th Edition of the Duden , in addition to the anthology Golden Oddlies the British humorist Paul Jennings the funniest book I have long been held in his hands. The idea to set the first and last entry of a page in the Spitz mark next to each other, resulting in inspiring combinations of words making them curious, and hopefully it will also create your own entries again as in the standard reference work on German spelling:
Moscow tastes like chocolate mousse ?
What goes into the menu meningitis? What drives a
Mustafa mycologist? What to do
club chairwoman shortage ? What I'm learning
in a double lesson Domowina ? And the feminism belongs
remote truck about Alice Schwarzer ? ...
The list goes on and on.
Congratulations to the Duden editors for this source of linguistic inspiration!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Public Indoor Basketball Courts In North Jersey
Hello Fall!
When wind passes over mowed fields
When the sun gives way to a cold shadow
If fall foliage is brightly colored on the branches,
urges If sweetness in the grapes,
That means only one thing: Fall is going on!
Oh, one more thing, Lord: The summer. Great!
PS Whoever has no house Wüstenrot!
Who is alone now: Parship threatens! Otherwise
: write long e-mails,
And drifting with leaves through avenues.
When wind passes over mowed fields
When the sun gives way to a cold shadow
If fall foliage is brightly colored on the branches,
urges If sweetness in the grapes,
That means only one thing: Fall is going on!
Oh, one more thing, Lord: The summer. Great!
PS Whoever has no house Wüstenrot!
Who is alone now: Parship threatens! Otherwise
: write long e-mails,
And drifting with leaves through avenues.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Pink Name Mount And Blade
Very brief - less letter
other day I received the following e-mail:
Attachment
:-)
P.
This e-mail text (1) is of an almost unprecedented intensity barren. The sender is compressed in its short, so very short prose epistolary extent that the letters of the language now considered to negate the visual element of writing. The written word suffers the catharsis of image formation in the form of a cinematic Annex (here "anonymous") and exposes the materiality that too often hides behind the abstract. The lack of an address appears here with the claim to be able to refrain from an indivual person and implies instead a universal recipient stock. Here the author steps back. "P." is a kind of placeholder for an individual who is in the digital waves of the World Wide Web to its non-uniqueness become aware of this and yet with an ironic, ambivalent attachment to the text as soon facing smile commented. In short: A small, highly compressed masterpiece!
(1) The specific linguistic expressions in emails, see the discussion of theory Snow White in the chapter "The e-mail" in: The history of the letter art
other day I received the following e-mail:
Attachment
:-)
P.
This e-mail text (1) is of an almost unprecedented intensity barren. The sender is compressed in its short, so very short prose epistolary extent that the letters of the language now considered to negate the visual element of writing. The written word suffers the catharsis of image formation in the form of a cinematic Annex (here "anonymous") and exposes the materiality that too often hides behind the abstract. The lack of an address appears here with the claim to be able to refrain from an indivual person and implies instead a universal recipient stock. Here the author steps back. "P." is a kind of placeholder for an individual who is in the digital waves of the World Wide Web to its non-uniqueness become aware of this and yet with an ironic, ambivalent attachment to the text as soon facing smile commented. In short: A small, highly compressed masterpiece!
(1) The specific linguistic expressions in emails, see the discussion of theory Snow White in the chapter "The e-mail" in: The history of the letter art
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