{"id":14271,"date":"2012-10-07T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2021-09-11T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:26:43","slug":"sonderling-sunday-chapter-eleven-memories-and-prophecies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=14271","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Chapter Eleven – Memories and Prophecies"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Sonderling Sunday<\/a>! Have you ever laughed at the odd phrases tourist books choose to translate? Have you ever wondered how these words could possibly be used? On Sonderling Sundays, I take phrases from books for children and young adults and give you the German translation. Obviously, these phrases are useful: They have been used! I also hope you will enjoy a different way of hearing them or looking at them.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think that even if you don’t speak German, you can enjoy Sonderling Sunday. In fact, with that in mind, I offer two challenges for the comments:<\/p>\n

1) Please attempt to use one of the phrases or words from today’s post in a sentence.
\n2) Please translate one of the phrases or words into another language for all of our edification.<\/p>\n

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This week, I’m back to The Order of Odd-Fish<\/a><\/em>, by James Kennedy<\/a>. We left off on Chapter 11.<\/p>\n

I like this sentence at the beginning, and thought it would be fun to see how it translates:
\n“Gone was the vast jeweled egg she’d woken up in every other morning of her life.”
\nThis becomes:
\nDas riesige juwelenbesitzte Ei, in dem sie bisher jeden Morgen ihres Lebens aufgewacht war, war verschwunden.<\/em><\/p>\n

(A literal translation is something like this: “The giant jewel-possessing egg, in which she up to now each morning of her life woke up to, was disappeared.”)<\/p>\n

Some more intriguing phrases you never knew could be useful:
\n“scruffy wooden desk” = zerkratzten Holztisch<\/em><\/p>\n

I like this one:
\n“a little arched leaded-glass window” = ein kleines Bogenfenster mit Bleiglas herein<\/em><\/p>\n

This doesn’t change a lot, but I like the sound in German:
\n“She couldn’t get out of the crusty, stinky thing fast enough.” = Sie konnte gar nicht schnell genug aus diesem schmutzigen, stinkenden Ding herauskommen.<\/em><\/p>\n

“in an agony of relief” = mit einer beinahe qualvollen Erleichterung<\/em><\/p>\n

“wrapped in a fluffy white towel” = eingewickelt in ein flauschiges wei?es Handtuch<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a phrase I dare you to use in a sentence:
\n“cars and elephants moving in the boulevards” = Wagen und Elefanten bewegten sich \u00fcber die Boulevards<\/em><\/p>\n

“Jo nearly spit out her coffee.” = Jo h\u00e4tte sich fast an ihrem Kaffee verschluckt.<\/em><\/p>\n

“painful” = sehr schmerzlich<\/em><\/p>\n

“It was as if the ground had reeled under her.” = Jo hatte das Gef\u00fchl, als w\u00fcrde der Boden unter ihr schwanken.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Just hearing it made her skin prickle.” = Es kribbelte sie am ganzen K\u00f6rper, als sie dieses Wort nur h\u00f6rte.<\/em>
\n(“It tingled her on her whole body, when she this word only heard.”)<\/p>\n

“jewelry box” = Schmuckkassette<\/em><\/p>\n

“lead the life of a normal Odd-Fish squire” = lebe wie ein ganz normaler Knappe eines Seltsamen Sonderlings<\/em><\/p>\n

“incredulous” = ungl\u00e4ubig<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I’m tired, so I’m stopping there for tonight. How about you? Can you think of a reasonable way to work one of these phrases or words or sentences into normal conversation? Or can you give us a translation in yet another language? I’ll be watching the comments to see.<\/p>\n

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