Category: Language

  • Gifting

    As a matter of fact, I don’t care two figs about all the Christmas coziness, warmth, cordiality, homelikeness, love and all that stuff. That’s why I hadn’t planned anything like a “Christmas post”. But yesterday, my mother reminded me of a beautiful poem which, due to its subject, suits Christmas time very well. So let…

  • The calamitous spelling debacle collective post

    Everyone who knows me knows that I set great value upon spelling. Whether old or new German spelling rules is not that important – but you should at least command one of them. The internet has long since become a Petri dish for orthography-resistant word mutations, and time and time again, I stumble over amusing,…