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OMG, I heart the OED

The OED has proved once again that it takes the development of the English language seriously. Among the words recently included in the OED online edition are “initialisms”(1) such as:

OMG
LOL
FYI

Now, fair enough. But what really surprised me is the inclusion of “heart” as a verb, as it occurs in the verbalisation of slogans on T-shirts, [...]

March 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: English language | Comments are closed

Johannes Brahms, “Ein deutsches Requiem”

Die Amberger Chorgemeinschaft führt am 3. April zusammen mit dem Bohemia Sinfonieorchester Prag das “Deutsche Requiem” von Johannes Brahms auf.

Eine sehr gute Aufnahme dieses berühmten Werks für Chor, Orchester und Solisten hat der MDR vor einiger Zeit übertragen; Christian Thielemann dirigiert dort die Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden und den Chor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden, Christine Schäfer [...]

March 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Musik | Comments are closed

Wanna try Chinese – or something easy-peasy?

A website dedicated to language learning (voxy.com) has just published a ranking of languages
according to how difficult it is to acquire a certain degree of proficiency – measured by how long it takes you
to get there.
Interesting fact: German isn’t on the list – on none of them. What does that tell us? It can’t mean [...]

March 10th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: General, Language | Comments are closed