Tag: #rdp

Who Is Pretending?

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This sign is wrong. We were lured there under false pretenses. The street is called “at the goldmine” – we’ve looked and looked and no nugget anywhere in the vicinity.
This, on the other hand, wasn’t a pretense: I went inside and the only monkey there was definitely fake.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Pretense

A German Corner

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The Deutsches Eck (“German Corner”) is the place where the Moselle river flows into the Rhine. In the photo on the bottom is the water of the Rhine, above it the water from the Moselle. The different colours (due to different sediments, different weather, etc.) show that it takes a while for the two rivers to coalesce.

And now lets mix Rhine wine and wine from the Moselle and see what happens…

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Coalesce

Now You Hear It, Now You Don’t

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The word squirrel is said to be notoriously difficult to pronounce in English – at least for non-native speakers. For many Germans it’s a dead give-away (BTW: I can pronounce squirrel and have never understood the difficulties others have with the word). There is a word in the German language that does exactly the same: it outs people as non-natives even if their spoken German is otherwise flawless: Eichhörnchen. Now guess what it means.

Above you see a squirrel doing a disappearing act. I could also say: Oben sehen Sie ein Eichhörnchen, wie es verschwindet.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Shibboleth

Circle Up!

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The words “in the circle” has a special meaning to anyone who has ever hashed (for more information check out Hash House Harriers on the net). After a run hashers congregate in a circle (or a more or less circle shaped form) and have fun, rehashing (sic!) what happened while out in the wilds. Lots of singing and drinking (a beverage of your choice which is often but not necessarily beer) and frivolity is involved.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: In the Circle