{"id":37451,"date":"2020-03-22T23:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37451"},"modified":"2020-03-22T23:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T03:30:28","slug":"sonderling-sunday-confined-in-a-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37451","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Confined in a Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got it! The perfect book for Coronavirus Quarantines! In Book of a Thousand Days<\/a><\/em>, by Shannon Hale, the heroine and her lady are walled up in a tower for a thousand days. This will make you feel like your quarantine or self-isolating is nothing at all! So tonight’s choice for Sonderling Sunday<\/a> is Das Buch der Tausend Tage<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s time for Sonderling Sunday, when I look at the German translations of children’s books. You can think of it as a very silly phrasebook, with all the things you never thought you’d need to say in another language, laid out for you here.<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a>, we left off ready to begin Day 795 in the tower, Tag 795.<\/em> It’s on page 93 in the English edition, Seite 106 auf Deutsch.<\/em> You can think about ways you might use this first sentence:<\/p>\n

“There is an odor about my lady, like a dung heap on a hot day.”
\n= Meine Herrin hat einen Geruch an sich wie ein Misthaufen an einem hei\u00dfen Tag.<\/em><\/p>\n

I like the next sentence, too:<\/p>\n

“If my script looks ill, it’s because I closed my eyes as I wrote that.”
\n= Wenn meine Schrift krakelig aussieht, liegt es daran, dass ich beim Schreiben die Augen geschlossen hatte.<\/em><\/p>\n

“jailed” = eingesperrt<\/em><\/p>\n

“tricks” = Streiche<\/em><\/p>\n

“nibbled” = gepickt<\/em><\/p>\n

“any quantity of flat bread”
\n= eine Unmenge Fladenbrot<\/em><\/p>\n

“grumbles” = grummelt<\/em><\/p>\n

“like a beast feeding on short grass”
\n= wie ein Tier, das niedriges Gras abweidet<\/em><\/p>\n

“Strangely” = Komischerweise<\/em><\/p>\n

“vomited” = sich erbrach<\/em><\/p>\n

“stored grain” = gelagertem Mehl<\/em><\/p>\n

“dump” = kippen<\/em><\/p>\n

“squeaking madly” = quieken wie verr\u00fcckt<\/em><\/p>\n

“just to laugh at me” = nur um mich auszulachen<\/em><\/p>\n

“limbs” = Glieder<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s such a relief!”
\n= Was f\u00fcr eine Erleichterung!<\/em><\/p>\n

“We’ll find a way.”
\n= Wir werden einem Weg finden.<\/em><\/p>\n

“mortar” = M\u00f6rtel<\/em><\/p>\n

“scraping” = weggekratzt<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rat meat is not tasty.”
\n= Rattenfleisch schmeckt nicht himmlisch.<\/em><\/p>\n

“stringy meat” = sehnige Fleisch<\/em><\/p>\n

“chewed and swallowed” = kaute und schluckte<\/em><\/p>\n

Gotta do this one!
\n“odd” = sonderbar<\/em><\/p>\n

And I’ll finish up with a sentence at the end of Day 928:
\n“It makes me smile to think of how brilliant they are at surviving.”
\n= Ich muss l\u00e4cheln, weil sie so fantastische \u00dcberlebensk\u00fcnstler sind.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s enough for tonight! No matter how long you end up staying home in the coming weeks, I hope you never have occasion to use very many of these phrases! Bis bald!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got it! The perfect book for Coronavirus Quarantines! In Book of a Thousand Days, by Shannon Hale, the heroine and her lady are walled up in a tower for a thousand days. This will make you feel like your quarantine or self-isolating is nothing at all! So tonight’s choice for Sonderling Sunday is Das […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-37451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sonderling-sunday","tag-das-buch-der-tausend-tage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37455,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37451\/revisions\/37455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}