The choice of language, namely French, to illustrate a dialogue of incomprehension, I assure you, is totally accidental. Not · illustr. by Guacamole Goalie
Whenever an attempt to communication or action fails, people get very creative when they encounter a lack of understanding. Both German and English have a vast repertoire listing expressions of incomprehension.
Proceed In The Face Of [...]

I know that I have neglected my German entries a lot lately, but I just don’t feel like posting anything German. It’s not that I am having a writer’s block or I’m missing German word wit. No, it’s not that. So, as an apology, I’m now concentrating on German idioms and proverbs. There you go. [...]

Having a weakness for another language makes you do weird things. Sometimes I encounter a phrase or joke in German that I have a hard time translating, where the internet bears a hand*. Most of the times this gets me the solution, I feel satisfied and can move on with life. Here is an example [...]

There are moments in life where you feel this sudden surge of hormones (mostly adrenaline) that tell you the meaning of your existence. The chore that you are supposed to be able to tick of at the end of your life, the obligation that you fulfill with - hopefully - good grace. It seemed to [...]

For time tends to get less busy I decided to pick up a book that I always wanted to read that has been rotting in my book shelf since my A-Levels: Apex Hides The Hurt by Colson Whitehead. I will soon publish a short review on this book, FYI (this abbreviation is for “for your [...]

Lass uns nicht um den heißen Brei reden (let’s not beat around the bush) und schon legen wir los mit Lingo Bingo (check out the Lingo Bingo archive)…

In today’s edition of Lingo Bingo, we will cover some commonly used idioms in everyday’s language. Im sogenannten Alltag lässt man es gerne mal laufen und greift auf bekannte Sprachbilder zurück. So that’s exactly what we are going to talk about. Are there certain “Floskeln” (empty phrases that are pretty hackneyed) that both the German [...]

It happens to be quite entertaining to mock somebody because of a funny slip. Tongue twisters (in German called Zungenbrecher [tonuge breakers]) usually play with (un?)intentional slips. In today’s issue we’ll talk tongue-twisteria.
Notice that this entry is filed under English vs Deutsch, where Lingo Bingo is usually posted too.