All’s fair in love and war

All’s fair in love and war

Beaver Beer – well I think there are Marmots!

NOTE: Business English etc.
can be found below the translation exercises.

Translate the Text into English: Übersetzen:

Susann, Faten, Rico, Heike, Simone and Frank.

einen Vertrag unterschreiben

eine Unterschrift

einen Vertrag zu initialisieren

Quatsch

Quatsch mit soße

Eier

haben

zu bekommen

Möchte

Bekommen

Salat

Ein Stenograph

 

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Business English Word of the Week:

Geschäftsenglisch Wort der Woche:

A business word/phrase = “to be a trainee for a job – ein Auszubildender für einen Job sein.”

Sample Sentence:

“I would like to introduce you to our new trainee, Sandra. She is training now to do Mechanical Engineering within our company.”

 

Law English Word of the Week:

Gesetz Englisches Wort der Woche:

A law word/phrase = Übertragen – transfer
umwandeln – convert

Sample Sentences:

“The transfer of stocks and shares must be completed by the end of the fiscal year.”

“The conversion of bonds into capital must be converted by a registered ‘Bonded House’.”

 

Vocabulary for Contracts:

Wortschatz für Verträge:

A word/phrase for contracts = “to impress upon”

Sample Sentence:

“The party of the first needs to impress upon the party of the second part the urgency of this contract to be finished at the earliest possible date.”

 

Vocabulary for Negotiations:

Wortschatz für Verhandlungen:

A word/phrase for negotiations = “What is your offer?”

Sample Sentence:

“Our company would like to do business with your company. However, we would like to know what is your offer?”

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Word of the day: Wort des Tages:

to be reliable/dependable = zuverlässig

consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.

Sample Sentences:

“Do you know whether or not this is a reliable source of information?”

trustworthy and reliable.

“We require a dependable supply source of good quality machine parts.”

 

Phrase of the day: Satz des Tages:

“My word is my bond” This is in the form of a promise.

If someone’s ‘word is their bond’, they always keep a promise: Making & breaking promises & commitments.

The phrase “My word is my bond” can be traced back in English Literature to Shakespeare’s times and is referred to in the Merchant of Venice. The phrase develops and in 1670 it appears in J Ray’s English Proverbs in the form of “An honest man’s word is as good as his bond.”

Sample Sentence:

“Heh listen, pal, you have to promise me that you’ll never to tell anyone. My word is my bond.”

 

Idiom of the day: Redewendung des Tages:

“The world is going to hell in a handbasket.”

 – this idiom means a person When you say things are going to ‘Hell In A Handbasket‘ you mean that a situation is. rapidly deteriorating or that you are set firmly on a course for disaster.

Sample Sentence:

“How’s work going Bob?” He answers: “Terrible. Everything’s going to hell in a handbasket.”

British English / American English Vocabulary:

Britisches Englisch / Amerikanisches Englisch Wortschatz:

British English (B.E.) = silencer

American English (A.E.) = muffler

The English word silencer could also be used regarding pistols and rifles to silence the sound of the bang when the weapon is fired.

In American English, you can muffle the sound of something, including a weapon. However, I would think of a muffler as a type of scarf.

 

Special Grammar Tip of the Week:

Spezieller Grammatik-Tipp der Woche:

Do you currently live alone?

The ‘Time Expression’ (Zeitausdruck) comes before the ‘active verb’ =  LIVE in the sentence above.

 

Pronunciation tip: Aussprachetipp:

Ther mom meter = Thermometer.

 

False Friends Tip of the Week:

Falsche Freunde Tipp der Woche:

German                    = announcement

Translation              = Ansage, Durchsage

False Friend (F.F.)   = Annonce

Meaning of F.F.       = advertisement

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If you know where Alice Cooper came from, his story, his life, the comment below makes you think. He is not the only person in the rock and pop world, as well as the film industry, who has come to the realisation that fame and money are not everything.

Wit, wit, wit – Education:

Witz, Witz, Witz – Ausbildung:

“Force is all that matters. War is sacred. Hanging is excellent. We don’t need too much knowledge. Build more prisons and fewer schools.”

Quote by Victor Hugo.

Victor-Marie Hugo, Vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic writer and politician (With a perfume named after him…). During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he was a poet, writer and much involved in French politics. The statements above come under the heading of “Wit”. No one, except a fascist, Nazi, or Neo-Nazi could believe in such ridiculous statements, so one must assume that he was trying to be either ‘funny’ (which it is not) or he was trying to make a statement? I’ll let you decide as I know nothing about French humour…

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Slang word of the day:

Slangwort des Tages:

“Zombie Scrolling” is a new term from the USA about people scrolling a lot on their Smartphones.

 

Colloquial / Colloquialisms:

Umgangssprache / Umgangssprache:

Abdabs – meaning terror or fright.

Sample Sentence:

“To have the screaming abdabs.”

 

Cockney Rhyming Slang:

Cockney Reimender Slang:

The Sweeney = Sweeney Todd = the Flying Squad, a special division of the Metropolitan Police; used as the title of the TV series known as ‘The Sweeney’.

Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial, ‘The String of Pearls’ (1846–1847). The original tale became a feature of 19th-century melodrama and London legend.

 

Quote of the week: Zitat der Woche:

“Don’t hang on to your mistakes just because you spent a long time making them.”

 

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