Tag: vocabulary
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ösis have a knocker, Piefkes have a hit – Bavaria
The writer Dana von Suffrin mentioned in an interview with the SZ that she didn’t know anyone “who didn’t get a real beating from their family.” Sigi Zimmerschied also uses…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A dog for Heidi Klum – Bavaria
The fine country castle Gödöllö rises near Budapest. When you enter the former chambers of Empress Sisi, your gaze inevitably falls on the purple wallpaper on the walls, the color…
How many words are there in the French language?
You speak it every day, but do you know how many words there are in the language of Molière? Probably not, and for good reason: answering this question is not…
More anger, less vocabulary… When music reflects society
This is a scientific observation that will perhaps prove your old boomer uncle right. Music is increasingly poor in vocabulary, with increasingly repetitive lyrics, according to a study published in…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ihra be Bua – Bavaria
The gender debate has the potential to get on your nerves. Otherwise you don’t have to worry. At least in this context it comes to mind that the gender assignment…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Mistaken Winnetou films
In the cheap Westerns from the 1960s, the plots of the Karl May novels were often completely changed and messed up. In Bavarian there is a special word for this…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ilse Bilse, nobody wants… – Bavaria
Trenzerbeidl An older gentleman recently said in a pub that he had picked up his grandson from daycare. Another boy was crying miserably there, which is why he affectionately called…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: A cactus in the Potschamperl – Bavaria
The charming word Potschamperl (Potschamberl, Botschamperl) used to be used for night oats. A few days ago, this linguistic-historical pearl triggered various reactions among readers. On the Munich pages of…
Scratch’s vocabulary: The horror of Maxi Pongratz – Bavaria
Horror A Time-Reporter from Hamburg visited the musician Maxi Pongratz in his apartment in Obergiesing and wrote a colorful portrait about him. Pongratz was a member of the disbanded band…
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Beckenbauer in Nui York – Bavaria
The late football emperor Franz Beckenbauer probably received more honorable obituaries than he scored goals. Even his art of language, which was colored by the old Giesingen milieu, was thoroughly…