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Sunday, May 5 2013

How Speaking Too Many Languages Is Limiting

© Jeremy Sutton Hibbert - Restaurant sign in Figueres, Catalonia., mai 2013

I know, by saying this - that speaking too many languages is limiting- I probably go against years and hours and sweat tears of very dubious as well as very serious research that say the contrary. As a matter of fact, if you go about googling the advantages of speaking many languages, the number of  […]

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Sunday, February 12 2012

Madame und Monsieur kann man auf Deutsch nicht ansprechen

En allemand, on ne peut utiliser "Madame" ou "Monsieur" sans nom qui suit, ce qui rend l'apostrophe de personnes inconnues extrèmement difficile. On ne peut appeler un serveur dans un restaurant par exemple qu'en lui disant "pardon !" ou "Excusez-moi", ou un truc du genre, sauf si on connaît son nom, auquel cas on peut l'appeler "Herr Schmidt!" par exemple. Bref, un manque dans la langue allemande.

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Friday, July 3 2009

Vorauseilender Gehorsam

While reading one of the blogs I follow from afar on the "intercultural" scene, I stumbled upon the concet of "vorauseilender Gehorsam" (obedience before the order), an interesting concept which the commenter on the blog thought could be an explanation for the rise in English words within other languages. The idea being that people obey soe "unknown boss" that expects them to strew their conversations with English words to be fashionable, because it is the thing to do.

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Thursday, September 25 2008

I don't spreche Deutsch, merci beaucoup

My Firefox language preferences

Well, actually, I do speak German, but I hate it (If I dared, I'd write the hate bold in font size 40 and with four exclamation marks) when a website speaks to me in German. I mean, my language preferences are clear in Firefox, there's even only French and English so why a website should speak to me  […]

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Wednesday, April 23 2008

Choosing a Name: The First Name

I never got around to telling the story of our daughter's name. It is, indeed, one heck of a story, which starts even before she was born. You have to remember that she has a German father and a French mother. This led, before her birth, to endless dicussions about what names are suitable in both  […]

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