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US & Germany: snippets-curiosities-worth knowing
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No, I didn't make a mistake typing the title. It is not "improve".
Do you remember the comedian who lived at Ikea and who also visited all Manhatten Starbucks shops? If you chuckled about him, then this is something for you:
There is a group called "Improv Everywhere". There official description is:
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German cities have a problem |
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US & Germany: snippets-curiosities-worth knowing
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In the back of our minds Germany often appears as a very neat and clean country. And in many places it is! (... though surpassed easily by Switzerland for example)
But as I just read, glass shards are becoming an issue in the bigger cities ... and police dogs have to start wearing protective footwear. Read yourself what CNN reports:
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US & Germany: snippets-curiosities-worth knowing
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Did you know what Germans mean with "contribute your mustard"? |
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US & Germany: snippets-curiosities-worth knowing
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Just a few days ago I heard the flower name "baby's breath". For most American readers this is a known and unspectacular name of a plant.
I had to pause since the pictographic and common American name for the plant "Gypsophila" (baby's breath) is a different one than in my native German. In German we call it: "veil herb" (Schleierkraut)
And this little incident reminded me of a paragraph I was planning to put on my website.
I think it's fun to look at idioms a little closer. Different languages use different pictures or expressions - not always of course, but in many cases. And these idioms often show if you really speak a language. Otherwise you get confused with these idioms who make no sense at all if you don't know about the traditional meaning of the picture.
I collected a few words like the already mentioned "baby's breath", but even more so a list of interesting idioms and compared the English and German language:
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