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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-14120842595382819202010-12-09T13:53:00.000-05:002010-12-10T09:58:38.067-05:00Road Signs - Unfortunate Juxtapositions. Joia Linguistica<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Views from the Traffic Jam</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6SFNr1Lozk0ace8oPbf7axgbXaT0YxWLXGZRySgRELr2IPHmNWeym-ug74VQajMpLCuDjzxlPAbrspKms6TZ_Oh8cakurX_IHlRroHNpX5ZK74WhtilKmmjXReKFJYw7VQ9YEIXcd3g/s1600/100_3222.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6SFNr1Lozk0ace8oPbf7axgbXaT0YxWLXGZRySgRELr2IPHmNWeym-ug74VQajMpLCuDjzxlPAbrspKms6TZ_Oh8cakurX_IHlRroHNpX5ZK74WhtilKmmjXReKFJYw7VQ9YEIXcd3g/s320/100_3222.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549067401626616802" border="0" />Hamburg, Germany. Traffic stalls for many reasons.</a><br /><br />No matches allowed in this tunnel.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-41723216521235454472010-10-02T14:27:00.001-04:002011-02-02T04:33:07.485-05:00The Necessaries. Salutes to Ingenuity and Linguistics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wickeltisch -- changing table. Not in babelfish, however. Have to look up Wickeltisch itself and hit the <i>translate this page</i> button. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In pertinent part, fair use: a small part of the whole offering there:</div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"A changing table is a table on the infants to toddlers, the diaper can be changed. The winder can perform while standing the change. The table is either a converted kitchen table or a washing machine or a specially designed table, one of the sides a gang and has various compartments for certain implements such as diapers, baby powder and others. The changing table is uncommon in a changing room. To prevent falls, you can handle babies from the fourth month on the ground." </div></blockquote><div class="gmnoprint" style="display: none; left: 162px; position: absolute; top: 111px; z-index: 2147483647;"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_n.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 8px; left: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 18px; width: 239px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_n.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 8px; left: 282px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 18px; width: 238px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_w.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 82px; left: 3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 26px; width: 8px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_e.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 82px; left: 520px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 26px; width: 8px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_s.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 8px; left: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 108px; width: 509px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_s.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 8px; left: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 108px; width: 0px;" /><img src="http://www.google.com/images/infowindow/iws_c.png" style="-moz-user-select: none; border: 0px none; height: 82px; left: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 26px; width: 509px;" /></div><br />
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Sometimes the best things in life are not free. Here, paper is passed out two sheets per. Keep change in your pocket, for the 4-5 cents (in koruna increments) up front. You will not get the key to go in until you pay in many places.<br />
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This one may be in Trebic, the Czech Republic. Pay for what you need.<br />
In many countries, you also will find the kind we were told were "Turkish toilets." See one at ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet. They work fine. In Greece, there were many, as in the outlying areas of Romania, the Balkans. See also ://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1153527.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Don't blame me. Dan took the picture. I just took the picture of Dan taking the picture of the picture somebody created centuries ago, in better times.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then you follow the pavement signs, and the beds are stone in there, with stone pillow raised areas - had to have cushions back in the day. And depressions where lots of feet swung off and swung up and came and went. Very short beds. Teeny windows. Good thing. Or an ancient C Street House where all is safe because you are with friends accountable to noone outside, and all justifying each other inside, and not telling. Not a good thing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUbi13B7VTc_iIg2zUZth5aVaYPJYnNX7KD-QtMdVWih8-8JDLmVBEMC_JZjp9Sn5O7YvvJPXEnvpUihUttPZzVMs9SniOcOZbOClp6uFcdeSeLNDt4wy365j5cw6ABOCwPRmLw0ux8lq/s1600-h/100_1821.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglUbi13B7VTc_iIg2zUZth5aVaYPJYnNX7KD-QtMdVWih8-8JDLmVBEMC_JZjp9Sn5O7YvvJPXEnvpUihUttPZzVMs9SniOcOZbOClp6uFcdeSeLNDt4wy365j5cw6ABOCwPRmLw0ux8lq/s320/100_1821.JPG" />A house of joy, perhaps appetizers only, Switzerland, hard to know, near Liechtenstein</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Ingenuity in food. Predictable, but perfect timing. The Dracula Club in Bucharest, on Halloween. Tasty, tasty.<br />
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Ingenuity in access.<br />
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Is it Mircea the Old? We hope this is a salvage from a whole statue, just with the bottom lost, but have no idea. Just in a town, looked like somebody's back yard.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-68088129794000570152010-10-02T14:17:00.001-04:002010-12-10T09:54:44.628-05:00Tourist Business - A Few of our Favorite Childish Things<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tours for the Bloated</span><br /></div><br />Turistfart.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwdSpUuRYQje7ueDvldxWkX4CiQK52JBSL_b-R2Bi4PXbwnCt1cUx5z2MgUCZSkg5WMi-6hKgiWCrXlDza7C1MU7-f1kEAz6479c8uvnsni0rpI3oCVk4kfct4tCS3vAXRIKxUISrpJ4/s1600/100_3017.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwdSpUuRYQje7ueDvldxWkX4CiQK52JBSL_b-R2Bi4PXbwnCt1cUx5z2MgUCZSkg5WMi-6hKgiWCrXlDza7C1MU7-f1kEAz6479c8uvnsni0rpI3oCVk4kfct4tCS3vAXRIKxUISrpJ4/s320/100_3017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549066419870361042" border="0" />Tours for the gaseous, Denmark</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tours for Couch Potatoes. </b><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The VegaTour</b><br /><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPontBkm3ug_RMPMavwl2QiAfIPgXDc3a6zaRk3S6Lg6d9ZtLFLGuv81bvaHhCntgTEXR2fy4h4hmGejFrJiMTG3_kW_HHs5EAydY0M_1zlVsgClGL_EbeZSp0jR450LCFu7vxItpI0wBv/s1600-h/100_2594.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPontBkm3ug_RMPMavwl2QiAfIPgXDc3a6zaRk3S6Lg6d9ZtLFLGuv81bvaHhCntgTEXR2fy4h4hmGejFrJiMTG3_kW_HHs5EAydY0M_1zlVsgClGL_EbeZSp0jR450LCFu7vxItpI0wBv/s320/100_2594.JPG" border="0" />VegaTour, Geneva, Switzerland. Bus for veggies.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">. </div>Vegetable Tour bus. Geneva, Switzerland. Beets me.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-64513884110231811862010-10-02T14:16:00.000-04:002010-10-02T14:16:06.105-04:00Environment, Recycling<b>Environment matters. </b><br />
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My own birth name meant "cormorant" - an ugly bird if there ever was one - but useful - so these other country and language matters are not poking fun at, just enjoying.<b><br />
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Translating and its pitfalls; a normal part of a lexicon one place turns into fun in another.<br />
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The affinity of the German language for joke-translations of its f-word into the notorious Anglo-Saxon four letter word was a product of WWII, 1945 and on, said one site we found. The homecoming soldiers spoke at home of words and places, and they and the folks back home picked up from the sounds the two way streets suggestions. Is that so? <br />
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Then why not earlier, at WWI? Did nobody talk?<br />
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This near Wittenburg Castle.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA42C3RLv5fLd6YuM4oQdVkITaz7vVpwsKw-WiuJSmrR4zEMDGBGkdit2t85u2jXvG23-vQHq9h0WNYukHqXe2C2PtoUiOCvEVRIsAlmF68zL_4Qn4M9lNnTHa8MtRy7XwGB6FLeqPnaFI/s1600-h/Wartburggraffitimoon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA42C3RLv5fLd6YuM4oQdVkITaz7vVpwsKw-WiuJSmrR4zEMDGBGkdit2t85u2jXvG23-vQHq9h0WNYukHqXe2C2PtoUiOCvEVRIsAlmF68zL_4Qn4M9lNnTHa8MtRy7XwGB6FLeqPnaFI/s320/Wartburggraffitimoon.jpg" />How high the moon? Germany</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">. </div>For a history of classical and other mooning, peruse <a href="http://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/2008/04/michelangelo-and-sistine-foggy-texts.html">Vetting Roots, Michelangelo and History of Mooning</a>Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-51246797268202802492010-10-02T11:03:00.000-04:002010-10-02T11:03:12.516-04:00The serious and the nonsensical: underpinningsCountries share recurrent migrations, disasters, boons, mythologies, invasions, and other tensions surrounding population ethnic identity and self-determination. There is also the fun in humor. No matters along those lines are intended to belittle any culture or language, but to share the kicks of delight. Even if short-lived, and non-intellectual. We hope you enjoy, but don't worry about it. This is for us.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345309655420812168.post-31686523590989486732010-09-15T15:50:00.000-04:002010-12-10T09:32:40.549-05:00People in Passing - including Mr. MagicFrom a traffic stop in Hamburg.<br /><br />Go ahead. Click on the picture here of Mr. Magic on Tour -<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIFGr-_aX3bOn4bOQZ8oSR6FKfkgAX-r4mBeXHzlvg2uIR5n9UyUNFe6IVnOUvABZFNOQ7AmfxcWUr2mjvxtk5Fldkx4jE824BCmebk5nGAaEgHm-N_Zt-2RMPvokYy100tQZ387jrJg/s1600/100_3042.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIFGr-_aX3bOn4bOQZ8oSR6FKfkgAX-r4mBeXHzlvg2uIR5n9UyUNFe6IVnOUvABZFNOQ7AmfxcWUr2mjvxtk5Fldkx4jE824BCmebk5nGAaEgHm-N_Zt-2RMPvokYy100tQZ387jrJg/s640/100_3042.JPG" />Mr. Magic on Tour</a></div><br />Hah!<br /><br />Mr. Magic on Tour. It says so. Right there.<br /><br />Mr. Magic is a plumber.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0