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(Deutsch) Schick mich in den Kongo!
Sorry, this entry is only available in German.
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Search google.com (in English)
Recently I wanted to google something, but all the German search results were of no use. So I wanted to try in English – but how? Usually I simply enter my search term in English and thus get English results, too. But this time I was looking for a quite “international” term such as “instant…
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Bonus, for God’s sake! Bonus!!!
In German, it is “der Bonus” and “die Boni”! It is not “der Boni”!!! Bonus = singular Boni = plural One “Bonus”, many “Boni”. Is that really so difficult??? MY GOD!!!
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The fairytale Muhlenberg myth-legend-saga
Urban legends – almost everyone knows a few. Most of them are so ridiculous that – provided you are blessed with an IQ higher than 50 – you can dismiss them as mental trash without further investigation of their truth content. The stories range from flesh-dissolving cola to a merely endless number of Eskimo words for…
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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,…