Was it only during the pandemic that you also only learned to appreciate how much natural space we still have in Germany? And since then, have you also felt that our natural heritage has to be preserved at all costs? If so, then you feel the same as way we do. Since the end of […]
WHAT REALLY COUNTS 4 Read More »
The pandemic was no walk in the park for any of us – but it hit people that perform live on stage particularly hard. As a Frankfurt-based company, it was clear to us that we had to something and simply chose our favourite cabaret: Die KÄS – which, incidentally, stands for Kabarett-Änderungs-Schneiderei (cabaret alteration tailor)
WHAT REALLY COUNTS 3 Read More »
Since 2005, we have been donating to a good cause in January. It all started with the Frankfurt women’s shelter ‘die kanne’. That’s where the idea of yoga classes for children came up. The project was well received, so for almost ten years we made regular donations to the shelter in January, sometimes adding a
WHAT REALLY COUNTS 2 Read More »
Schleicher Sprachservice celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year, which is why I started thinking about what we have achieved during all this time. No question about our job being highly interesting. Specialising in Legal & Finance, we cover a broad range of topics. The day I’m writing this text on is typical: it started
WHAT REALLY COUNTS… Read More »
Trend 5: The “Konjunktiv” is being used increasingly rarely to express indirect or reported speech Nowadays, most Germans would not see any problem in the following sentence: „Der Vorsitzende der Gesellschaft hat mitgeteilt, dass er nicht plant, an der Versammlung teilzunehmen.“ This is somehow surprising, as the Duden, which is, in terms of authority, a
HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CHANGES IN GERMAN LEGALESE V? Read More »
Trend 4: The definite article is omitted more often than in the past. As late as 2000, the style guide of a then quite conservative German “Anwaltskanzlei” that was on its way to becoming an international law firm specified that company names should have the definite article in the genitive case – e.g. “Die Webposts
HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CHANGES IN GERMAN LEGALESE IV? Read More »
Trend 3: More prepositions, fewer datives: Whereas in the past the German verb “haften” – which means to be liable – had to be followed by the dative case, nowadays collocations of the type “haften gegenüber” – literally speaking to be liable to, towards or vis-à-vis somebody – are used more frequently: “Der Verkäufer haftet
HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CHANGES IN GERMAN LEGALESE III? Read More »
Here comes part 2: Trend 2: Legal terms that have been used for decades become replaced by Anglicisms Let’s take the matter of control in company law, which in German legal terms used to be named as “Beherrschung”. Twenty years ago, we never had German texts that spoke of “Kontrolle” over a company or that
HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CHANGES IN GERMAN LEGALESE II? Read More »
We have been providing you with translations of legal and financial texts for more than 20 years. And to mark our anniversary, we naturally asked ourselves whether the language of law has changed during this time. And of course there have been changes. The most important trend is the steady advance of Anglicisms into German
Have there been any changes in German legalese? Read More »
A very tricky thing in German are compounds, which can be quite long as is evident in the photo. And with Frankfurt now buzzing with AMLA, which shortly will move to the Messeturm, we have a very good example of that: “Geldwäscheverdachtsanzeige”. This is (i) a notification of (ii) the suspicion of (iii) the laundering
WASSERSCHUTZPOLIZEISTATION Read More »
