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How do we translate "eye candy" in a user interface design context?
The term "eye candy" is increasingly used for optical/graphical design gimmicks intended to make the user experience on various desktops more attractive.
Examples:
"Your iPhone application development should be with eye candy design so people will…
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Gibt es Dialekt-Wörterbücher?
Gibt es Dialekt-Wörterbücher, also Wörterbücher für z. B. Deutsch–Bayrisch oder Bayrisch–Hessisch?
Wenn ja, welche könnt ihr empfehlen?
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Is there a difference between "Messer" and "Kniff?"
The word I was taught for "knife" is "Messer".
But someone, who appears to be a native speaker, answered a question to the effect that "Kniff" looked like its English counterpart "knife".
Certain other Germanic languages, such as Swedish, use…
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Werden Regeln gebogen oder gebeugt?
Kürzlich schrieb hier jemand: „[…] Stefan Zweig is bending the rules to his purposes […]“ Als ich daraufhin die Frage gestellt hatte, welche Regeln Zweig denn gebogen haben soll, hat man mich verbessert: Er habe die Regeln gebeugt.
Nun kenne ich den…
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What do I need to know to pass the A1 or A2 exams from Goethe Institut?
Can someone share what I need to know to pass the A1 or A2 exams from Goethe Institut?
For instance, do I need to know
all cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive)?
the past form of every verb?
the separable prefix ver-?
etc.
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Wird Hochdeutsch relativ schnell gesprochen?
Momentan läuft eine Debatte über Deutsche in der Schweiz. Dabei stieß ich auf diesen Artikel (nicht dass ich die Seite regelmäßig lesen würde :)), wo behauptet wird, "Maschinengewehr-Hochdeutsch" (ziemliche Blitzkrieg-Rhetorik, aber scheint auf der…
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"Sie bleiben überhaupt gern unter sich."
What is the difference between the following two sentences?
Die Meiers bleiben sehr gern unter sich.
Die Meiers bleiben überhaupt sehr gern unter sich.
I know that both mean something like
The Meiers [very much] like to keep to themselves.
I…
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Is there a German "Loot Box"?
There is quite some debate about loot boxes in computer games. In German this term if often not translated. This leads to considerable confusion amongst people who do not play video games where this term always has to be further explained.
I heard…
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"Noted" in German
What's the German translation of "noted" in the following context:
A: Note that if you have a parenthesis outside the Mathjax immediately following a curly brace inside, the curly brace won’t display.
B: Noted.
I was told that "Ich habe es zur…
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What does the Abkürzung (abbreviation) SV mean?
What does SV mean within the following Context:
Eintritt: VVK € 10,90 / TK € 12,- / inkl. Gebühren / SV.
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How do you translate German wordplay into English?
This is a somewhat generic issue, I suppose, in that it affects both English-to-German and German-to-English translation.
Today I came across what I thought was an example of good German wordplay:
. . . und alles isst gut.
instead of
. . . und…
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Warum heißt es »mein Lebtag« und nicht »meinen Lebtag«?
Beschreibung und Beispiele
Der Ausdruck Lebtag wird in der Redewendung »mein / dein / ihr… Lebtag [nicht]« verwendet, um auszudrücken, dass etwas das ganze Leben lang oder bisher noch nie der Fall war.
Üblicherweise wird das Possessivpronomen dabei…
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In what context would one use "Ich drück' dich"?
Is it a common way to say goodbye?
I understand it is informal, but what would be an appropriate situation/context for using it?
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Is there any difference between “anstatt” and “statt”?
Is it just your own choice of words or do they (anstatt and statt) also mean two different things?
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How to ask for a bank account "upgrade"?
I have an existing account with an Austrian bank that provides for a certain level of annual turnover and with a certain kind of payment card. The bank also offers a "higher level" type of account that has higher limits and comes with a better, more…
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