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My Favorite German Words / Meine deutschen Lieblingswörter

In the two years we’ve lived here, I’ve learned lots of words. Here are some of my favorites: funny-sounding words, logical German words, and German words that embody an entire English phrase or sentence.

Celebrate National Grammar Day

That’s right, March 4 is National Grammar Day. How exciting! My post today talks about my favorite part of speech (verbs) and issue a challenge that you can add to your bag of writing tricks before National Grammar Day 2009 rolls around. The Wonderful, Lovable Verb “Why does she like verbs so much?” you probably [...]

This hurts!

A&P postcardOriginally uploaded by dove95 Yes, I like grammar, spelling, punctuation, and all that stuff that makes most people cringe. But I don’t judge people when they use improper grammar or can’t spell a word right–hey, I’m not perfect either and I make mistakes all the time. But sometimes I come across an error that [...]

Dept. of Redundancies Dept.

BBC | 9/11 Demolition Theory Challenged In this article, the fifth paragraph from the end claims that “The controlled detonation idea, espoused on several internet websites, asserts that the manner of collapse is consistent with synchronised rows of explosives going off inside the World Trade Center.” Several internet websites, huh? As opposed to websites on [...]

Power Superiority Despite a Numerical Inferiority

That’s the crux of the 20 1/2 page paper I turned in at 4:00 today. Hooray that it’s done!!! But *hangs her head in disappointment* it’s only 20 1/2 pages. It had to be 25 at least. Well, Dr. Biava said 23 was okay since it’s a grammar paper and they’re “more dense, like math.” [...]