Midweek Monochrome
Native Speaker
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Does a bilingual speaker have a mother and father tongue?
Are you an orphan if you prefer to talk tongue-in-cheek?
And I leave you with a plea for my profession:
Being a native speaker is not a profession.
Being a translator is.
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Wood, Wine and Wats
(I apologise – Germans are known to overcompensate when it comes to pronouncing of “V”s.)
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic in September
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Seeing Me, Seeing You
Did I look as scary to the eye as the eye looked to me? What vision did the eye behold?
Yes, His Was Bigger Than Mine
And he was kind of smug about it. We were on this glass bottom boat in the Mediterranean and he really showed off his camera with the large zoom. However, he packed it away after a short while when nobody was really interested.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Complacent
The Watergate in Heidelberg
This is Heidelberg, just before the Old Bridge beneath the Heidelberg Castle.
The windows of all four towers are old and identical.
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I’m a Fan of Rowing
On the river Neckar near Heidelberg. Sunday morning is the time to go on the water.
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