NOTE: Your loaf is your head, or more specifically your brain – your mind – your intellect. So, this phrase Use your loaf means to think clearly, be wise and not stupid. I use this phrase from time to time.
NOTE: Business English etc.
can be found below the translation exercises.
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Susann, Faten, Rico, Heike, Simone and Frank.
Warum muss ich jedes Mal alles kaufen?
Du bist so faul, du backst nie Brot für mich!
Wohnst du auf dem Campus oder in einer WG?
Toto, trink meine cola nicht mehr, bitte!
Ich will diese Jacke kaufen, aber ich habe kein Geld.
Ich trage im Winter meine Socken mit Sandalen.
Trinkst du Orangensaft den ganzen Tag?
Ich trage nie eine Jacke.
Ich trage dieses Kleid nur im Urlaub.
Ich brauche deine Hilfe, sei nicht unhöflich.
Passt deine Kleidung noch, oder gehst du ins Kaufhaus?
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Business English Word of the Week:
GeschäftsenglischWort der Woche:
A business word/phrase = “The Shop Floor” – “blue-collar workers” work on the Shop floor.
“The shop floor” is the production area, such as in a factory or another working space and is the floor where workers produce goods. The term “shop floor” refers to the area of a factory where production takes place. The shop floor excludes the area used or designated for administrative activities.
Blue-collar jobs are those that involve a greater degree of physically-taxing or hard manual labour. Blue-collar jobs include farmers, agriculture, manufacturing, mechanics, construction, mining, power plant operators, and electricians or maintenance sectors.
Law English Word of the Week:
Gesetz Englisches Wort der Woche:
A law word/phrase = Spouse – Ehepartner. A Spouseis a person who is legally married to another.
Domestic partnership allows unmarried couples to claim some of the same benefits that married couples enjoy.
However, there are some differences. Not all states recognize domestic partnerships, and those that do may limit the benefits and protections available to domestic partners.
Vocabulary for Contracts:
Wortschatz für Verträge:
A word/phrase for contracts = The expenditure – dieAusgaben.
Vocabulary for Negotiations:
Wortschatz für Verhandlungen:
A word/phrase for negotiations = To pay (for something) over the odds – Zu viel zu bezahlen.
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“I find incomprehensible why there are people today trying to make up other gender categories other than the two quite clear and distinct male and female. We are either genetically X & X chromosomes or X & Y.”
NOTE: the female is XX and the male is XY. Every individual must have at least one X chromosome. Since the female is XX, each of her eggs has a single X chromosome. The male, being XY, can generate two types of sperm: half bear the X chromosome and half the Y.
Phrase of the day:Satz des Tages:
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy and wise.”
Idiom of the day:Redewendung des Tages:
“To speak with one voice” – this idiom means if a group of people express an opinion or decide something with one voice, they all agree.
Sample Sentence:
“The medical committee voted and they decided, with one voice, not to accept the proposal that there are any more than two genders.”
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Slang word of the day:
Slangwort des Tages:
To go “Arse over tit” – to fall down, to stumble (stolpern, straucheln, stocken).
Sample Sentence:
“I remember seeing a news item where Nancy Reagan walked across a stage and went arse over tit and nearly broken something – except her pride of course!”
Colloquial / Colloquialisms:
Umgangssprache / Umgangssprache:
wir sagen: die Frage beantwortet sich von selbst -We say: the question answers itself = “is a no-brainer”. This is an AMERICAN Colloquial expression. Not everything that comes from America is stupid or illogical and this example, I very much like. It says it all very simply. =
Sample Sentence:
“It’s a no-brainer. You do not have to think about it, this answer is so easy, you would need someone to confuse you – like a politician.”
Example of a no-brainer question.
“I have a piece of fruit in one hand and a million dollars in the other, which one do you want?”
Cockney Rhyming Slang:
Cockney Reimender Slang:
“Sky” = “skyrocket” = a pocket
Sample Sentence:
“I’ll keep it in my sky for safekeeping, but don’t tell the old ball and chain, the trouble and strife that I’ve got it!”
Quote of the week:Zitat der Woche:
“Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.” Groucho Marx.
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