I have a cultural question to my American friends, please. I recently watched the movie "Tangled" in which Rapunzel is born as a princess to a king and his wife. Then she gets stolen. In the original German version it was a poor mother who went to a forbidden garden to eat some Rapunzel (salad) when she was pregnant and the woman that the garden ( Read more... )

My friend sagestreet recently wrote a very interesting post at Tumblr - you can read the original here: http://sagestreet.tumblr.com/post/85162789977/tiesandtea-sagestreet-kissedbyflames-iI am also copying it into here since we had the same ( Read more... )

Yay, another language discussion! I was just talking with cowgrrl and thought this is a topic equally interesting to discuss. Because I love to compare proverbs and have found a few which mean the same thing, but are totally different described in different languages ( Read more... )

I just posted this entry in the community linguaphiles but I thought I put it into here as well, as I know you all love a good discussion once in a while and maybe we all learn something new by it! If you want to check the replies in the comm, the entry is here: http://linguaphiles.livejournal.com/ ( Read more... )

A question to all my British friends: What would you call the thing the Seventh Doctor wore? Like in this picture: http://www.nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/seventh-doctor-217x300.jpgI'd like to use the correct word for a fanfiction. ( Read more... )