My learning of Kiwi English continues. And it is an interesting journey.
Almost from Day 1 did I encounter “Ta” in emails from colleagues. As we work in an IT company, my first thought was: check an internet slang dictionary. I found “thanks again” for “ta” in Netlingo. Thus, I didn’t wonder about it anymore.
However, recently, [...]
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Kiwi-ism and not Internet slang
Words and phrases of Wellington
Accents and dialects: I either understand them or I don’t, but I am definitely not good at figuring out where people come from. Listening to a Kiwi on the phone, I pretty much detect the accent and love it. Meeting the same person face-to-face, s/he sounds differently and the accent is often not so strong.
However, [...]
My latibule
Very early this morning I completed my first adoption ever. I adopted the word “latibule” from the site Save the Words where infrequently used words are made more known through a fun Flash front-end throwing in the occassional “choose me audio piece. The web site is no latibule anymore as people start adopting words. I [...]
Missing Luxembourgish expression / fehlender luxembourgischer Ausdruck
When you go to a museum, you always learn something new. In the museum on the history of the city of Luxembourg which is a really great museum by the way, I learned that the phrase “I love you” does not exist in Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch). There is only “I like you” (“Ech hunn dech gär”) [...]
Photos / Fotos
Since I moved to Luxembourg, I could have written a few items in this blog. However, I still need a bit more time to write longer posts and an update. Nevertheless, I would like to show you a few pictures I took in the last weeks. Most of them are still from Bavaria.
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