{"id":113,"date":"2005-03-31T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T04:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/yet-more-germanglish"},"modified":"2005-03-31T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T04:37:42","slug":"yet-more-germanglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/yet-more-germanglish\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more Germanglish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I&#8217;m getting an invitation to an automotive-related conference organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdi.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">VDI<\/a>, the main engineering organization in Germany. It&#8217;s written in English; well, it is written in something that probably wants to be English, but every year, its English is so bad that one immediately think that it must be a parody. Sadly, it is not. I simply can&#8217;t resist quoting the following highlights (quoting verbatim, and all spelling errors appear in the original):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A member of the state legislature will speak on the subject of <em>&quot;Fright traffic and passanger services between different interests&quot;<\/em>. I knew they were trafficking in all sorts of things, but not that they get scarier all the time. In particular now that those interests are involved&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>On the subject of visiting a Mercedes plant, the brochure recommends: <em>&quot;Please register for the visitation in the registration from attached.&quot;<\/em> I assume it will be court-supervised while you are tied to the plant.<\/li>\n<li>And <em>&quot;As you would like to arrive individual, we will send you a route discreption with your documents.&quot;<\/em> I&#8217;d rather not get that discreption while I&#8217;m in the process of liking my arriving individual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazingly, it&#8217;s on the same level every year, and this is not a high school club, but an important conference held by the largest engineering organization in a G7 country in which it is virtually impossible to go through the school system without having to take a few years of English. Even the Word spell checker would catch most of those (I tried), and the English version does come with the German version of Word&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I&#8217;m getting an invitation to an automotive-related conference organized by VDI, the main engineering organization in Germany. It&#8217;s written in English; well, it is written in something that probably wants to be English, but every year, its English is so bad that one immediately think that it must be a parody. Sadly, it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}