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Life is good. I got a lovely package from shiun which was filled with a special calender for the advent season and the audiobook of Die Brautprinzessin by William Goldman, read by Jochen Malmsheimer and Bela B. Bela B! *_*
Anyway, university was okay as well. I survived both the German literature lecture and the seminar without much harm and Writing II was just brilliant. In addition, I discovered that I should have lived around 1800 in England with Shelley and Keats. Yes, that was my time. I don't think I would have come along well with Wordsworth or Coleridge, but with these two? Definitely. Need poetry, neeeeed poetry!
Now, have a good laugh! Behind the first cut are some sentences Mr. Rueckert gave us to correct. Behind the second cut you find a handful of quotes made by German soccer players (fussballersprueche.de). I get my weekly dose during Prof. Nünning's lecture. :D
The following are actual statements found on auto insurance forms. The drivers were asked to summarize the accidents in as few words as possible. Their answers prove that incompetent writing can at least be highly entertaining.
Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.
The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.
I thought the window was down, but I found out it was up when I put my head through it.
A pedestrian hit me and went under the car.
The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a few times before I hit him.
In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
As I approached the intersection, a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before.
My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.
I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.
The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.
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Mario Basler: Ich grüße meine Mama, meinen Papa und ganz besonders meine Eltern.
Fabrizio Hayer: Ich weiß auch nicht, wo bei uns der Wurm hängt.
Horst Hrubesch: Wir müssen das alles nochmal Paroli laufen lassen.
Hans Krankl: Wir müssen gewinnen, alles andere ist primär.
Lothar Matthäus: Wir dürfen jetzt nur nicht den Sand in den Kopf stecken!
Andreas Möller: Mein Problem ist, dass ich immer sehr selbstkritisch bin, auch mir selbst gegenüber.
Andreas Möller: Mailand oder Madrid - Hauptsache Italien!
Andreas Möller: Ich hatte vom Feeling her ein gutes Gefühl.
Andreas Möller: Das ist eine Deprimierung.
Bruno Labbadia: Das wird alles von den Medien hochsterilisiert.
Horst Szymaniak: Ein Drittel? Nee, ich will mindestens ein Viertel.
Fritz Walter jun.: Die Sanitäter haben mir sofort eine Invasion gelegt.
Anyway, university was okay as well. I survived both the German literature lecture and the seminar without much harm and Writing II was just brilliant. In addition, I discovered that I should have lived around 1800 in England with Shelley and Keats. Yes, that was my time. I don't think I would have come along well with Wordsworth or Coleridge, but with these two? Definitely. Need poetry, neeeeed poetry!
Now, have a good laugh! Behind the first cut are some sentences Mr. Rueckert gave us to correct. Behind the second cut you find a handful of quotes made by German soccer players (fussballersprueche.de). I get my weekly dose during Prof. Nünning's lecture. :D
The following are actual statements found on auto insurance forms. The drivers were asked to summarize the accidents in as few words as possible. Their answers prove that incompetent writing can at least be highly entertaining.
Coming home I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.
The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.
I thought the window was down, but I found out it was up when I put my head through it.
A pedestrian hit me and went under the car.
The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a few times before I hit him.
In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
I had been driving for 40 years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.
As I approached the intersection, a sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before.
My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.
I was sure the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the road when I struck him.
The pedestrian had no idea which direction to run, so I ran over him.
*
Mario Basler: Ich grüße meine Mama, meinen Papa und ganz besonders meine Eltern.
Fabrizio Hayer: Ich weiß auch nicht, wo bei uns der Wurm hängt.
Horst Hrubesch: Wir müssen das alles nochmal Paroli laufen lassen.
Hans Krankl: Wir müssen gewinnen, alles andere ist primär.
Lothar Matthäus: Wir dürfen jetzt nur nicht den Sand in den Kopf stecken!
Andreas Möller: Mein Problem ist, dass ich immer sehr selbstkritisch bin, auch mir selbst gegenüber.
Andreas Möller: Mailand oder Madrid - Hauptsache Italien!
Andreas Möller: Ich hatte vom Feeling her ein gutes Gefühl.
Andreas Möller: Das ist eine Deprimierung.
Bruno Labbadia: Das wird alles von den Medien hochsterilisiert.
Horst Szymaniak: Ein Drittel? Nee, ich will mindestens ein Viertel.
Fritz Walter jun.: Die Sanitäter haben mir sofort eine Invasion gelegt.