Bestes Denglish Forever

"Ich habe vielleicht etwas Weltverbesserndes. Mein Leben ist eine giving-story. Ich habe verstanden, dass man contemporary sein muss, das future-Denken haben muss. Meine Idee war, die hand-tailored-Geschichte mit neuen Technologien zu verbinden. Und für den Erfolg war mein coordinated concept entscheidend, die Idee, dass man viele Teile einer collection miteinander combinen kann. Aber die audience hat das alles von Anfang an auch supported. Der problembewusste Mensch von heute kann diese Sachen, diese refined Qualitäten mit spirit eben auch appreciaten. Allerdings geht unser voice auch auf bestimmte Zielgruppen. Wer Ladyisches will, searcht nicht bei Jil Sander. Man muß Sinn haben für das effortless, das magic meines Stils."

–- Jil Sander in einem Interview der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (vom 22. März 1996).

Ingles, Anglais or Englisch

I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
to learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead -- it's said like bed not bead --
and for goodness' sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)

A moth is not the moth in mother,
nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose --
just look them up -- and goose and choose,
and cork and work and card and ward,
and font and front and word and sword,
and do and go and thwart and cart --
come, come I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive.
I'd mastered it when I was five.

National Punctuation Day

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One of those buzzwords

Oh, "meltdown." It's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an "unrequested fission surplus." -- Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns in "Homer Defined" (8F04)

Industralization & Next Goals

I received this email today:

To Lord Baron Harkonnen:

You have done excellent building factories for Giedi Prime!
Could you begin to increase our police force?
We need more troops if we are to challenge the Emperor.

-- Pieter deVries

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818

Don't Try

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. Let history make its own judgments"

-- Zefram Cochrane, 2073

Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock

"Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors."

-- Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory's episode The Lizard-Spock Expansion.

Point of View

"Punkt widzenia zależy od punktu siedzenia." -- Polish Proverb

(The point of view depends from point where we are.)

Von Abgründen

"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

"He who fights with monsters should look to it, that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

-- in Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche