{"id":1364,"date":"2021-03-26T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:59:56","slug":"we-are-wordsmiths-kristin-fehlauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=1364&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"We are wordsmiths: Kristin Fehlauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: Kristin Fehlauer, Senior Editor &amp; Translator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is your goal for 2021?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hard to pick just one! Because of the pandemic it\u2019s been over a year since I\u2019ve seen my family back in the States, so I\u2019d like to visit them. I\u2019ve also been working on not responding to messages in the heat of indignation, but taking some time to calm down first so I don\u2019t aggravate the situation. To call it anger management seems a bit too strong \u2013 annoyance management, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Over the course of your career, have you noticed specific changes in language usage?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my first few trips to Germany a good 20 years ago, I remember learning to say \u201cSch\u00f6nen Tag noch\u201d and not to greet a store employee with an American-like \u201cHallo,\u201d but to say \u201cGuten Tag\u201d or \u201cGr\u00fc\u00df Gott.\u201d But nowadays, I\u2019m hearing lots of Germans say \u201cSch\u00f6nen Nachmittag noch\u201d and they often greet customers with \u201cHallo\u201d instead of the more formal varieties. These might be Munich phenomena \u2013 is it happening elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What animal are you tempted to translate literally?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>German has some great ones! Sadly, my favorite animals aren\u2019t among them (dragonfly\/<em>Libelle<\/em>, cheetah\/<em>Gepard<\/em>). But one good example is the German for hippopotamus, <em>Nilpferd<\/em>. German kids don\u2019t know how good they have it! It literally means \u201cNile horse,\u201d but Wikipedia informs me that this name came about when there were still hippos on the Nile. Since that is sadly no longer the case, it is more accurate to speak generally of the <em>Flusspferd<\/em>, or \u201criver horse.\u201d Actually, it\u2019s possible to translate directly from the \u201cEnglish\u201d word, as \u201chippopotamus\u201d comes from the ancient Greek for \u201criver horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is the glass half full or half empty?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Depends on when you ask the question! Have you just poured something into it or have you drunk half of it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Working from home: yes or no?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like a mix. Working from home is convenient in so many ways, but I also like the change of pace and exercise involved in going to the office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lake or ocean?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ocean, all the way! Just as Captain Jack Sparrow says at the end of the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie: \u201cNow, bring me that horizon.\u201d The smell of the salt, the mysterious depths, the lore and maritime traditions \u2013 I love it all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good 18 months since we last conducted short interviews with our team at Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year), so we thought we\u2019d ask ourselves some more questions now in an attempt to return to some semblance of normality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[97,570,98,99,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}