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Holy Moly! The Surprising Story Behind “Alter Schwede”
Have you ever heard a German friend shout “Alter Schwede!” after hearing some shocking news? While it literally translates to “Old Swede,” it has absolutely nothing to do with complaining about a broken dish from IKEA. Instead, it is a classic piece of Northern German slang, or a “Schnack”, used to express astonishment, surprise, or amazement. It can even be used as a non-serious expression of
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“bedeutet, ich wohne gemeinsam mit anderen Leuten. Wir sind alle Ausländer. In meiner WG wohnt ein Mexikaner, ein Chinese, ein Amerikaner und ich. Wir sprechen meistens”
― Café in Berlin
― Café in Berlin
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“No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Everywhere the air had become a vibrant yellow drum. A heavy sunlight freighted the foliage of the trees. Each leaf was a shutter about to swing back and reveal a miniature sun, one window in the immense advent calendar of nature.”
― The Unlimited Dream Company
― The Unlimited Dream Company
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
