Liv Hambrett

English language lecturer/Lektorin; writer. Privat unterwegs. New essay collection out now: The Therapy of Puppy School

[Liv Hambrett @LivWrites]

I thought, when I started keeping notes on life during a pandemic – or at least my life – that it would come to be some sort of pandemic diaries. But that didn’t happen. Lots of other things did, though.

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[Liv Hambrett @LivWrites]

Perhaps summer, my beloved summer, is the death, if indeed there is one. Its heat, its frantic growth, its rush. The brightest blaze, a cycle’s peak, before the yellow and red drop to the earth and she prepares to start again.

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@interchris 🙃🙃

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German/English translators/linguists: is there a convention when it comes to whether or not buildings or famous places get a German name or the English one is used? Das weiße Haus but Empire State Building, zB

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@wanderingFranzi Defffffinitely think that's a big factor. Increasingly, the English place names are predominantly used, with some German names still in use as a hangover from a less Anglo-present time.

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@spcvrtx Ooh, danke. Kann man vielleicht sagen, dass alle Gebäude tatsächlich einen deutschen Namen haben aber heutzutage wird im Allgemeinen Englisch verwendet? (mit einigen klaren Ausnahmen... Das Weiße Haus ...)

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@sand2drn I totally understand those considerations - age, proximity etc. But why did the White House ever have a German name in the first place when - as far as I can tell, buildings like the World Trade Centre didn't?

[Liv Hambrett @LivWrites]

@sand2drn So, eg, I note there is technically a German name for the Sydney Harbour Bridge but no one uses it (perhaps anymore). The other day, DW ran a piece on Buckingham-Palast (something I don't often see translated ... perhaps anymore).

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@sand2drn THANK YOU

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@we_pf I thiiiiink rather than a convention per se, there are individual historical and linguistic reasons as to why this happens to cities (and countries!).

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@sand2drn What is itttttt?

[Liv Hambrett @LivWrites]

At some point, towards the end of our week there, our son looks at the North Sea, driven wild by wind, the water like piano keys under a mad pianist and says, ‘it looks like music.’

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It should get easier, shouldn’t it? As the language emerges more vividly & the cultural quirks lose their novelty, as the traditions get folded into the seasons, shouldn’t this mess of longing & resentment, love & adventure just bloody sort itself out?
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Oh I love this @NellFrizzell

[Lauren Groff @legroff]

I was an English and French double major. Went in deep for the humanities. I’m so grateful for humanities training—I learned how to think critically, to research, to communicate on many levels, to figure out nearly anything I need to learn relatively easily.

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@Heather_inDE 😂😂😂

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@deutschbitte @Heather_inDE 😂😂😂😂

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@Heather_inDE Bettina would bargain them down from 20€ to 17.29€

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