Tag: #OneWordSunday

Sounds like

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2015 flour

FLOUER

2015 sheik

SHEIQUE

Homonym can have the same spelling or the same pronunciation, although the latter are more correctly called homophones.  Homophones are actually my bane when typing.  I often right a homophone and only notice it when I reed it later rather then than their.  There really annoying.  I find it heart to bare and it bothers me that this seams to happen more often lately.  But as a result I no a lot of homophones wright of the bat.

But for One Word Sunday: Homonyms I found too photos in my virtual jest which have 2 homophones combined in won picture.

  • flour – flower
  • sheik – chic
  • write – right
  • read – reed
  • their – there – they’re
  • heart – hard
  • bear – bare
  • seams – seems
  • know –  no
  • right – wright
  • chest – jest
  • one – won

Where is the message?

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2013 communication a

Communication: speaking – listening.  I saw this mural in a school for children with speech problems.  It’s not my mistake – the words are written in mirror script.

Stimme und Sprechen

A speech therapy practice, “for voice and speaking”.

2013 communication c

The best communication happens at eye level.

Linked to One Word Sunday: Communication.

 

 

Perpetuum repairé

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Heidelberger Schloss

The landmark of Heidelberg – the castle above the historical town – was destroyed during the 17th and 18th century, by war and fire and fires caused by war. It has been partially rebuilt but its fame is founded on its pictorial decay.  Yet even this decay now needs care.  The castle is hardly ever without some kind of scaffolding.  A few years ago it was even advertised in the local newspapers that it would be free of any kind of visible building activities for a whole of two weeks.  On the next rain-free day my sister and I went to take pictures of this unusual event.  Alas – look closely:

Heidelberger Schloss

Heidelberger Schloss

Linked to One Word Sunday: Restoration.

Cold as ice

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Since this winter was a total non-event in this corner of the earth (no snow, no ice, a few mornings with a semblage of hoarfrost and that was it) I have to resort to a bit of cheating.  Eis in German means ice but also ice cream.

2007 ice a

2007 ice b

For One Word Sunday: Ice.  Icier and possibly colder photos can be found here.

To print, to publish, and to brew

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Where would we be without books?  Where would books be if Johannes Gutenberg hadn’t invented movable letters?  Probably not in a very different position than today.

Peter Schöffer Buchdruck

No, this is not Gutenberg but Peter Schöffer.  An early collaborator of Gutenberg who scholars today think was more than an apprentice but quite essential in the devolopment of book printing and publishing.  The wikipedia article in German on him is much more detailed than the English one but for what it is worth if somebody is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sch%C3%B6ffer

This statue stands in Schöffer’s hometown of Gernsheim, about 50km south of Mainz, where Gutenberg lived.  And as an aside: I like his legacy. It’s a very tasty beer!

And the connection to culture and alcohol is never far away in a wine growing / beer brewing area.  Rheinhessen advertises this on the cable car, pure and culture rhyme in German.

Rheinhessen

Linked to One Word Sunday: Culture.