Able and How » words http://www.ableandhow.com Communication, organisational communication, change management and people. And some other things... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:19:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bildschirmbräune: le mot juste http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/silly/bildschirmbraune-le-mot-juste http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/silly/bildschirmbraune-le-mot-juste#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:52:40 +0000 David Ferrabee http://www.ableandhow.com/blog/?p=196

PICCADILLY — You ever find yourself short of a few good words? How about missing one good word?

Bildschirmbräune might just be that word.

It means someone who spends so much time in front of a computer that it appears to give them a strange tan.

It’s German. And we don’t have enough good German words in current usage in English.

Use [...]

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PICCADILLY — You ever find yourself short of a few good words? How about missing one good word?

Bildschirmbräune might just be that word.

It means someone who spends so much time in front of a computer that it appears to give them a strange tan.

It’s German. And we don’t have enough good German words in current usage in English.

Use it. You’ll like it. It’s my present to you.

(Now I just need to figures out how to pronounce it…)

/df

P.S. I like finding new and different blogs. This one seems to have an excellent back-story: El Blogador.

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