Category Archives: D

I woke up the other morning with the words Milch und leise going round my head. Milch, fair enough, but leise what?

See http://www.taz.de/1/wahrheit/artikel/1/die-paprika-des-fakirs/.

Es schwindelt mir. And then I thought it went Es brennt die Eingeweide, Eingeweide being a body part. Es brennt mir die Eingeweide would be better but doesn?t scan. It is in fact Es brennt mein Eingeweide, which can only … Continue reading →

I don?t expect predictive text algorithms to use context, there?s not enough room in the typical mobile phone for that, but they could use counts, and if so, what corpus did they get their numbers from? German T9 doesn?t have … Continue reading →

Wirbeltier sein is not intrinsically as much fun as it sounds.