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germanheit: A beautiful little village in the snow 🙂 Freudenberg – Germany. Freudenberg literally translates to “joyhill”. Isn’t that nice? The type of houses are called “das Fachwerkhaus” btw.
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This is wonderful.
This map gives you a brief overview of the different areas of German dialects. There are quite a few very distinctive ones that I would like to talk more about in following posts. Just a couple general facts:
German is a pluricentric language, meaning it’s a language with several valid standard versions both in written and spoken form (just like English). The 4 German standards are: German (north), German (south), Austrian German and Swiss German. Now, please don’t be worried – there’s a “pure” and standardized pronunciation that is used on television, radio etc. 🙂
Some dialects I would like to introduce you to are: Friesisch, Fränkisch, Bayrisch, Sächsisch, Schwäbisch and more. Stay tuned!
Gentium is a free/open license font recommended to me by Nick, who’s something of a font connoisseur. It’s beautiful, particularly when printed out (vs. read onscreen), and it’s the same size as Times New Roman so it’s easy to make the switch.
Victor Gaultney designed Gentium for his Masters of Arts in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. His full explanation (pdf) of the design is thorough and intriguing. He used slightly different base shapes for the lowercase c, e, g, o and q, for example, because our eyes tend to read just the tops of letters, so it’s helpful for them to be distinctive. What’s particularly cool about Gentium is that it supports all the letters and diacritics of the “extended Latin” alphabet (proofs (pdf)), so minority language groups previously stuck using Arial Unicode now have an attractive, free font that can actually be used in print.
Oh my god, yes. This is gorgeous. Particularly useful for Vietnamese, for me. Look at all those diacritics!
(Source: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium)
“Acht, neun, zehn” (Eight, nine, ten) is a graphic novel by a young, talented German comic artist called Arne Bellstorf. It was his diploma thesis and he also won an award for it. The story is about this kid Christoph. He doesn’t really get along with his mom, has to repeat his last schoolyear and is kinda lonely. It’s a really nice story and I love the drawings. If you’re into graphic novels, check it out. In German of course 😉
sitzenbleiben (irreg.) = (to) repeat a schoolyear
der Comic (-s) = comic
der Zeichner (“) = graphic artist (-s) / drawer (-s)
Rework is a really smart business book written by the crew from 37signals. If you haven’t checked it out, you must. In the meantime, Gnat Gnat has done a nice job of summarizing the highlights in this downloadable cheat sheet (pdf).
A baby albino crow is now a permanent resident of Monika’s Wildlife Shelter in Surrey.
The male crow, about five weeks old, was turned in to the shelter Wednesday. Monika Tolksdorf, who runs the centre, says it’s not “a total rarity” to find a white crow, but that the bird won’t survive if released.
“Usually they die, because most of them go blind because they have no protection from the sun,” she says.
Tolksdorf says the crow was not injured when it arrived.
On average, one or two albino crows arrive at the shelter every year.
Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/life/Albino+crow+taken+Surrey+wildlife+shelter+includes+video+attack+crows/3110245/story.html#ixzz0qBNsffSn
i wonder if mondays in norway are better than mondays here…
Germany’s national flag is officially black, red and gold – schwarz, rot und gold. What do the colors actually mean? Well, in the war of liberation against Napolean, the uniforms where black, had golden buttons and red lapels.
“Aus der Schwärze (schwarz) der Knechtschaft durch blutige (rot) Schlachten ans goldene (gold) Licht der Freiheit.” (From the blackness of slavery through bloody battles to the golden light of freedom)
do you still use business cards? my response goes something like this… it’s 2010, fer crying out loud… (via lh)
Asheville Tumblrs & Tweeps are cordially invited to a poetry reading Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:00pm at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, downtown Asheville, NC.
Samara Scheckler is one of the featured poets for Monday’s reading and plans to read selections from a new chapbook A Body Turning.
Other poets include Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, and myself with host and international poet Pasckie Pascua.
Dear Tumblr followers,
You are invited to a poetry reading featuring local poets: Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, Samara Scheckler and Matthew Mulder, and hosted by Pasckie Pascua.
8 MARCH, Monday, 7pm-8pm.
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, downtown Asheville, NC.
(828) 254-6734
another drawing from an old sketch book… i used a new & an old sharpie marker… it’s a technique i learned in school… a sharpie marker that is expiring provides a charcoal impression…
along with those old fountain pens i found some old sketch books from university days… here’s a sketch from the 90s…
i rediscovered a fountain pen set i put in storage… after years in storage, these fine pens still work well & beautifully…
15:59 – snowfall. 2 march 2010.
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