Wenn Teenies shoppen gehen: Flugzeuge im Warenkorb. This article caught my eye because it opens with a German slang phrase I learned just a few weeks ago: “Tote Hose” which means roughly “Absolutely nothing doing”. Here’s an English version of the article for those whose German isn’t quite up to snuff.
A question for Germans: Since when did “shoppen” become a German word? What happened to “einkaufen”? Do people prefer the English words because they sound “cooler”?
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
0 comments