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19 unusual facts about German Language


Cégep de l'Outaouais

While French is the main teaching language at the institution, there are also courses offered in English, Spanish, German and Mandarin.

Character piece

Character piece is a literal translation of the German Charakterstück, a term, not very precisely defined, used for a broad range of 19th century piano music based on a single idea or program.

Dale C. Thomson

To do his thesis entitled "General Haushofer and his Ideas on Geopolitics," Thomson spent time in Germany, becoming fluent in the German language.

Diener

The word Diener is German for servant.

Fassel

Fassel (translated "barrel") is a surname of German origin.

Jacob Nolde

He was drawn to the German speaking communities of southeastern Pennsylvania and quickly found employment as a weaver for the Louis Kraemer Woolen Mills near Reading.

Jean Chrétien Fischer

Jean Chrétien Fischer (German: Johann Christian Fischer; 17 January 1713 in Stuttgart – 1 July 1762 near Kassel) was a German-born soldier in the French service.

Klevner

Klevner or Clevner is a synonym for various grape varieties and wines, and is primarily used in German-speaking wine regions.

Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger briefly returned to Europe and starred in several German movies.

Languages of Hungary

:: – German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country.

Languages of Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein's official language is German, and the principality is the smallest of the four countries in Europe populated by a majority of German speakers.

Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow

He is identified with the Zeitung, a German newspaper published in South Australia, and represented Barossa in the South Australian House of Assembly from 20 May 1876 to 22 April 1890 when he was not reelected.

Matsch

Matsch is a name of German origin.

Mensa

In German, the term Mensa is used to refer to a university cafeteria

Middle French

There were also some borrowings from Spanish (casque) and German (reître) and from the Americas (cacao, hamac, maïs).

New Gods

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund (German for "primeval ground"), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.

Oskar Schade

He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German language, literature and art).

Parnassus Boicus

Gelasius Hieber (1671-1731) was a famous preacher in the German language.

Scharfrichter

The term Scharfrichter (German for executioner, literally: "keen judge") refers specifically to a tradition of executioners in the German states.


A. Ronald Walton

Working with ACTFL, the US Department of Education, the College Board, among other organizations, Walton helped to formulate nationwide standards for Japanese, French, Hebrew German, Spanish Chinese and Korean.

Aachen Altar

The Aachen Altar (de: Aachener Altar) or Passion Altar (Passionsaltar) is a late gothic passion triptych in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, made by the so-called Master of the Aachen Altar around 1515/20 in Cologne, Germany.

Ambrose Oschwald

Like a monastery, members of the colony would gather there daily to pray the Divine Office in their native German.

Anna Maria Dengel

After completing her schooling there, she was offered a position to teach German in Lyons, France.

Arlon

The Maitrank (German for "drink of May") is the city's most popular refreshment.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Berlin–Lehrte railway

The Berlin–Lehrte railway, known in German as the Lehrter Bahn (Lehrter railway), is an east-west line running from Berlin via Lehrte to Hanover.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

The town of Carlsbad, which lends its name to the Cavern and National Park, is in turn named after the Czech town formerly known by the German name Karlsbad (English spelling Carlsbad) and now known by the Czech name Karlovy Vary, both of which mean "Charles' Baths."

Chief fireman

In imperial Prussia, the title was known as brandmeister (from German Brand - "fire" and Meister - literally "master") and was the police officer, the chief of one of city fire-fighting crews.

China Today

It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.

Climm

It is internationalized; German, English, and other translations are available, and it supports sending and receiving acknowledged and non-acknowledged Unicode-encoded messages (it even understands UTF-8 messages for message types the ICQ protocol does not use them for).

Culavamsa

The foremost translation of this work was that of William Geiger from Pali into German, completed in 1930.

Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod

Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (German: The Dative is to the Genitive its death) is a series of books by Bastian Sick which deal in an entertaining manner with areas of contention in grammar, orthography, and punctuation, and unappealing and clumsy uses of the German language.

Ebenezer, Saskatchewan

The first settlers arrived between 1885 and 1887, mostly German-speaking Protestants who named the village after the location of Eben-Ezer mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament.

Eine Chance/Zu Gangsta

"Eine Chance"/"Zu Gangsta" (German: "One chance"/"Too gangsta") is a double A-side single by the German rappers Bushido and Fler off their 2009 album Carlo, Cokxxx, Nutten 2.

Frisian languages

speakers of Saterland Frisian in the Saterland region of Lower Saxony; the Saterland's marshy fringe areas have long protected Frisian speech there from pressure by the surrounding Low German and standard German.

Fusspils 11

Fusspils 11 is the name of a German aggrotech, industrial, and EBM musical project collaboration of Ravenous and Funker Vogt members Gerrit Thomas, Jens Kaestel, Björn Böttcher, Tim Fockenbrock, Kai Schmidt, and Peggy Johanson.

Klaus Knopper

He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

Laura's Happy Adventures

Many different language versions of the game were produced, including Spanish, French, German and even British English.

Liechtenstein identity card

The Liechtenstein identity card (in German: Identitätskarte Liechtenstein) is issued to Liechtenstein citizens by the Immigration and Passport Office in Vaduz.

Linguatec

:The Voice Reader text-to-speech program reads in twelve languages: German, British English, American English, French, Quebec French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese.

MacArthur Study Bible

Initially only available in the New King James Version, the MacArthur Study Bible is now also published using the New American Standard Bible text and the English Standard Version text, and the New International Version text as well as in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Marcie Blane

Released in the fall of 1962, "Bobby's Girl" made #2 on the Cash Box chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later recorded for the German market in their language.

Mòcheno language

Mòcheno is an Upper German variety spoken in three towns of the Mocheni Valley (German: Fersental, Italian: Valle del Fersina, Mòcheno: Bersntol), in Trentino, northeastern Italy.

Nathan ben Moses Hannover

This work, owing to its literary value, was translated into Yiddish (1687), into German (1720), and into French by Daniel Levy (published by Benjamin II., Tlemçen, 1855).

Needle ice

Alternate names for needle ice are "frost pillars" ("Säuleneis" in German), "frost column", "Kammeis" (a German term meaning "comb ice"), "Stängeleis" (another German term referring to the stem-like structures), "shimo bashira" (霜柱 the Japanese term for "ice needles"), or "pipkrake" (from Swedish pipa (tube) and krake (weak, fine), coined in 1907 by Henrik Hesselman).

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

Panzerhaubitze

Panzerhaubitze is the German term equivalent to armoured howitzer.

Peruvian Connection

Today, the company has about 200 employees in the United States, South America and the U.K. Peruvian Connection catalogs are printed in English with prices in dollars or pounds sterling, and in German with pricing in Euros.

Raed Jarrar

The shirts were produced by The Critical Voice, an anti-war group; the text was inspired by the German phrase Wir schweigen nicht ("We will not be silent"), the slogan of the White Rose, the "subversive" German antifascist anti-Nazi organization.

Samuel Nathan Blatchford

In addition to his native Navajo and second language of English, he also learned to speak Turkish, French, German and Japanese.

Santiago Ziesmer

He has supplied his voice to a number of Disney productions, including the German dub of DuckTales as Dewey and the Winnie-the-Pooh series as Piglet, and Beauty and the Beast as LeFou.

Satanische Verse

Satanische Verse (1990) is the first release by the German band Das Ich.

Skolem–Noether theorem

The theorem was first published by Thoralf Skolem in 1927 in his paper Zur Theorie der assoziativen Zahlensysteme (German: On the theory of associative number systems) and later rediscovered by Emmy Noether.

Soltorgsgymnasiet

Since 2002 Soltorgsgymnasiet have had an exchange-agreement with Lycée Léon Bourgeois in Épernay for teacher and the students reading French and an exchange with a school in Magdeburg for the students reading German.

St. Louis Jesuits

In addition, some hymns have even been translated into other languages such as Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Vietnamese, and have garnered wide acceptance in those areas as a result.

Thalweg

The German word Thalweg (nowadays spelt Talweg) is a compound noun that is built from the German elements Thal (since Duden's orthography reform of 1901 written Tal) meaning valley, and Weg, meaning way.

The Children of the Grail

The Children of the Grail (German Die Kinder des Gral) is a historical novel published in 1996 and a series based on it written by Peter Berling.

Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

In the cover sheet the title Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was typed in Russian, French, English and German, as well as the actual words Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also in those four languages.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Unter Null

Unter Null (German for 'below zero') initially began as a powernoise project influenced by a number of similar prominent artists, including Noisex, Converter and P.A.L.

Walter Schiller

He published this work in German in 1927 and in English in 1933, and wrote one of the earliest papers on dysgerminoma in 1934.

Weirathmüller

Weirathmüller (also spelled Weirathmueller) is a German family name, mostly spread in the Innviertel.

William Nicolson

After visiting Leipzig to learn German he was ordained as a deacon in 1679 and made Vicar of Torpenhow in 1681.He was also made prebendary of Carlisle Cathedral in 1681, and Archdeacon in 1682.