Thursday, September 27, 2007

on a side note

blogger thinks i'm german: its interface reads
Blog anzeigen (in einem neuen Fenster)
whatever that means. blog = blog obviously. anzeigen, anyone?

in = in; einem i guess is 'a' or 'one' - eine kleine nachtmusik lol. neuen is new, Fenster i'm reminded of defenestration - the act of throwing someone out a window. latin fenestra -> german Fenster?

linguistics is pretty cool.

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Blogger yihui said...

sorry I know this is really random and out of nowhere but I recently started reading your blog and I used to take German so here goes.

Blog is blog.
"zeigen" is to show and "an" is a prefix which usually means to start or to open so I suppose "Blog anzeigen" means, crudely, to open your blog.

and woah you're good. "In einem neuen Fenster" means "in a new window". The "einem" is like that (as compared to that in "eine kleine Nachtmusik" or something) because of conjugation.

2/07/2008 9:35 pm  

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