News from JMS
Welcome to our blog, where we plan to feature news, views and translation clues. Things like: did you know that English cats say ‘meow’, German moggies ‘miau’, French felines ‘miaou’, and Spanish Siamese ‘miau’. Pause for thought…
Everyday German doesn’t need translating
It is amazing how many German loanwords (borrowed from ‘Lehnwort’) we use without thinking. There are fourteen in this (rather contrived, I admit) sentence alone:
Suddenly overwhelmed by both Weltschmerz and Wanderlust, I headed to the delicatessen and filled my rucksack with schnitzels, hamburgers, frankfurters, sauerkraut, strudel and pretzels for the long journey, adding lager and schnapps for emergencies, and then headed for the hinterland with my dachshund.