Featured Germanisms
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A type of egg noodle or dumpling found in cuisine from southern Germany, especially Swabia.
Serve the spaetzle with beef or chicken as is, or saute it in butter and sprinkle with a little Gruyere cheese.
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The first translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra into English, done by Thomas Common in 1909, rendered Übermensch as "Superman"; Common was anticipated in this by George Bernard Shaw, who did the same in his 1905 stage play Man and Superman. Walter Kaufmann lambasted this translation in the 1950s for failing to capture the nuance of the German über and for promoting an eventual puerile identification with the comic-book character Superman. His preference was to translate Übermensch as "overman." The German prefix über can have connotations of superiority, transcendence, excessiveness, or intensity, depending on the words to which it is appended. Mensch refers to members of the human species, rather than to men specifically. The adjective übermenschlich means superhuman, in the sense of beyond human strength or out of proportion to humanity. (from Wikipedia)
The Übermensch transcends the boundaries of classes, creeds, and nationalities
"strong fear": anxiety, anguish, distress, worry, alarm, fright, gloom, depression
The tension, Dad! You know! The angst!
transl. thought experiment: in physics, an experiment which is only described but not made in reality as it is not possible or was not possible as someone thought of it for the first time
Re: Gedankenexperiment on energy conservation
Alpine European plant with white woolly leaves and flowers.
Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me, small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.", Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein, Jr., The Sound of Music
A ghostly counterpart of a living person
Waow, he totally looks like Albert Einstein's Doppelgaenger
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1. a violent and sustained attack by enemy aircraft 2. any intensive attack or concerted effort
The media blitz focused on young voters.
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an informal social gathering for coffee and conversation
Kaffee Klatsch is a German term which means ‘an intimate gathering spent between friends where they get to drink coffee, eat cake and exchange the latest gossip
A sudden attempt by a group to overthrow a government.
The president resigned because of the Putsch happened recently
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Emperor; title of the Holy Roman Emperors or the emperors of Austria or Germany until 1918; person who exercises or tries to exercise absolute authority.
A herd of zebras grazed where once the German kaiser may have reviewed his troops.
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