<![CDATA[Englishpro - Yahoo! Voices]]> en-us Copyright 2012 voices.yahoo.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:55:32 EDT http://l.yimg.com/ck/siteimg/PP-voices.jpg http://voices.yahoo.com/ Voices <![CDATA[Ode to the Email]]> Email used to be a highly innovative technology everyone needed to have. It has now become an anachronism – and the world has a habit of doing away with anachronisms.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Nov 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/ode-email-10406389.html <![CDATA[The True Believers of 9/11]]> Numerous passages of “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer seem to reach out from the past to describe the twisted minds of the suicidal 9/11 hijackers who released so much senseless violence upon the world.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Sep 17, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-true-believers-911-9140069.html <![CDATA[Bridges in Berlin]]> A city with rivers, lakes and canals everywhere, Berlin boasts having nearly 1000 bridges. These bridges are not only beautiful, they are a tribute to brilliant German Ingenieurkunst (engineering art) as well.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Jun 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/bridges-berlin-8617525.html <![CDATA[50 German Language Meltdowns]]> Everyone makes embarrassing mistakes when learning a foreign language. Learning German is certainly no exception. Here is a collection of fifty funny German language meltdowns that have actually happened.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Apr 29, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/50-german-language-meltdowns-8319069.html <![CDATA[Take My English, Please]]> German is heavily laden with a strange mix of English vocabulary and not a little pseudo-Englisch. Strangely, this can put native English speakers on the language defensive.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Mar 17, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/take-english-please-8082448.html <![CDATA[Big Spenders in Berlin]]> Germans aren't really tight-wads when it comes to tipping. It just appears that way to the uninitiated innocents abroad who don't yet know any better.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Mar 01, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/big-spenders-berlin-7972942.html <![CDATA[German Road Rage]]> Whenever Germans get behind the steering wheels of their cars they inexplicably go through a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde transformation and turn into seething cauldrons of rage just waiting to explode.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Feb 23, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/german-road-rage-7923966.html <![CDATA[German Window Neurosis]]> Germans don't necessarily want to rip open their windows for fresh air they don't need only to slam them shut again a few minutes later because of the imaginary draft they complain about, again and again, ad infinitum. They simply must.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Feb 16, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/german-window-neurosis-7873044.html <![CDATA[Berlin Construction Sites]]> German construction workers are so unbearably thorough that they turn temporary construction sites into near permanent monuments.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Jan 28, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/berlin-construction-sites-7724064.html <![CDATA[Berlin Bus Mobs]]> Nobody likes waiting in line to board a bus. Berliners have devised an ingenious method to get around having to do so: They all board at once. Sort of.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Jan 10, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/berlin-bus-mobs-7577080.html <![CDATA[They Don't Call it Wetter Here for Nothing]]> It rains way too much here in Germany. When it's not snowing like it is now, I mean. That's why they don't call it "Wetter" here for nothing.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Jan 01, 2011

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/they-dont-call-wetter-here-nothing-7508602.html <![CDATA[My German San Francisco]]> Berlin? A German San Francisco? Let me count the ways.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Dec 27, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/my-german-san-francisco-7478488.html <![CDATA[Natural Projection]]> When it comes to natural selection, it's better to be safe than sorry. It is better to mistake a shadow for a lion than the other way around. And that's why we "see things" at times, giving them purpose and intentions they don't really have.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Dec 27, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/natural-projection-7416368.html <![CDATA[All for the Cat? German Idioms for Fun and Play]]> Idioms are word combinations that let you get a message across. Often meant to be humorous in the first place, they become all the funnier (and stranger) when translated literally into another language. Here are a few German idioms for fun and play.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Nov 17, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/all-cat-german-idioms-fun-7145748.html <![CDATA[Fifty False Friend Favorites in French]]> When learning French, false friends are just that; words you think you know but turn out being something else altogether.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Oct 29, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/fifty-false-friend-favorites-french-7006044.html <![CDATA[Your Caveman Brain]]> Complex psychological mechanisms within your brain cause an ongoing conflict between "Gut" and "Head." Gut predominates, however, and is being systematically manipulated by self-interested parties who have a vested interest in keeping you afraid.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Oct 05, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/your-caveman-brain-6844384.html <![CDATA[The Deadly Duds of Deutschland]]> Tens of thousands of Allied bombs still lie buried under German soil. Many of these duds can still self-detonate at any time. In fact, one large bomb explodes somewhere in Germany once a year on average.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Sep 21, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-deadly-duds-deutschland-6778366.html <![CDATA[The Berlin Top Ten]]> Rome wasn't built in a day. And Berlin can't be seen in two or even three. When traveling, time is short; make the best of the little you have. Have a look at these must-see Berlin sights and get the most out of your stay in this fascinating city.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: Aug 24, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/the-berlin-top-ten-6591856.html <![CDATA[Gambling on Extraterrestrial Life]]> Scientific observations indicate that extraterrestrial life exists right here in our own solar system, but the final evidence has not yet been found. And no, the life forms we are searching for here are not the ones of the popular alien or UFO variety.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: May 25, 2010

]]> http://voices.yahoo.com/gambling-extraterrestrial-life-6031776.html <![CDATA[Whatever Happened to the Star-Club?]]>

No Beatles around here. There's quite a few pigeons and drunks and sex shops, though. Hamburg's St. Pauli by night. Only by day.

Contributor: Englishpro
Published: May 20, 2010

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