Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge<\/a><\/em>, but it’s a bit more useful:<\/p>\n“While I was washing up tonight” = Als ich heute Abend den Abwasch machte<\/em><\/p>\nI like this sentence. The word for “toe” of a shoe is different than the word for the part of your foot, Zeh<\/em>.
\n“She wears fashionable shoes with the toe long and curled toward her ankle.”
\n= Sie tr\u00e4gt modische Schuhe mit einem langen Schnabel, der sich zu ihrem Kn\u00f6chel kr\u00fcmmt.<\/em>
\n(Literally, according to Google Translate, that would translate back as, “She wears fashionable shoes with a long beak, that to her ankles curl.”)<\/p>\n“Ancestors” = Ahnen<\/em><\/p>\n“I feel like a mucker from the ends of my hair to the mud of my bones.”
\n= Ich f\u00fchle mich von den Haarspitzen bis ins Mark meiner Knochen wie eine Aratin.<\/em>
\n(German uses “marrow” of my bones, which makes sense, but loses the colorful language Shannon Hale used.)<\/p>\nHa! I saw this and thought they were talking about e-mail for a second!
\n“enamel tiles” = Emailziegeln<\/em><\/p>\nHmm. In German, they say the lord’s house is as beautiful as baumen<\/em>, trees, in Autumn, instead of “beautiful as a mountain in Autumn.” Again, I think it’s losing a little of Dashti’s voice.<\/p>\n“women were wailing, men were yelling” = die Frauen heulten, die M\u00e4nner br\u00fcllten<\/em><\/p>\n“waiting for someone to be sensible” = wartete auf einen vern\u00fcnftigen Menschen<\/em> (“waiting for a reasonable man”)<\/p>\n“errand boys” = Botenjungen<\/em> (“request-youths”)<\/p>\nHere’s a good one!
\n“squinting” = mit zusammengekniffenen Augen<\/em> (“with together-slitted eyes”)<\/p>\n“puffy” = verquollen<\/em><\/p>\nAgain, not quite as picturesque language:
\n“straight as a tent pole” = stocksteif<\/em> (“stock-stiff”)<\/p>\n“muddle of her hair” = ihre zerzausten Haare<\/em><\/p>\n“fur or felt” = Fell oder Filz<\/em><\/p>\n“embroidered” = bestickt<\/em><\/p>\n“sunset” = Sonnenuntergang<\/em> (“sun’s exit”)<\/p>\nI like this, too:
\n“as if fighting off a fit of sobs” = als wollte sie einen Weinkrampf unterdr\u00fccken<\/em>
\n(“as if she wanted to a crying-spasm push under”)<\/p>\n“lovely” = liebreizend<\/em><\/p>\n“bleating” = pl\u00e4rrst<\/em><\/p>\n“your mess” = dein Schlamassel<\/em><\/p>\n“a touch of sympathy” = ein Hauch Mitgef\u00fchl<\/em><\/p>\n“from duty” = aus Pflichtgef\u00fchl<\/em><\/p>\n“cowards” = Feiglinge<\/em><\/p>\n“useless” = \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig<\/em> (“overflowing,” “superfluous”)<\/p>\n“birth splotches” = Storchenbissen<\/em> (“stork bites”)<\/p>\n“rummaging” = w\u00fchlte<\/em><\/p>\n“hooks” = B\u00fcgeln<\/em> (Hmm. I bet that’s where Bugles got their name, from their shapes.)<\/p>\n“enviable” = beneidenswerte<\/em><\/p>\n“rebellion” = Auflehnung<\/em><\/p>\n“suspicious of the sun” = voller Argwohn gegen die Sonne<\/em> (“full of suspicion against the sun”)<\/p>\n“a heap of sticks and felt” = ein Haufen Stangen und Filz<\/em><\/p>\n“blessed” = guthie?en<\/em> (“good-called”)<\/p>\nThat’s it for Day 13. Believe me, I didn’t do it aus Pflichtgef\u00fchl<\/em>, but for fun. But now it’s getting late. I don’t want to do this so long, I end up mit zusammengekniffenen Augen<\/em>. (That one’s a tongue-twister as well as a cool word.) Zum Bett!<\/em> Until next week, if all goes well…<\/p>\n
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