Introduction
Some time ago, my favorite development editor, Damon Jordan, sent me an email and closed it with âIch möchte eine FöhnwelleâââI'd like a blow wave.â Unfortunately, I didn't know what either a Föhnwelle or a blow wave is, so I declined. He then told me he had found this sentence in a German phrasebook he recently bought.
I was interested and had a look at some German phrasebooks. I think they are great tools to get around in a foreign country, although I personally think that some of the phrases offered just don't make sense. For instance, in one phrasebook, I found a series of pickup lines, including the ingenious âYou have a beautiful personality,â something that didn't work for me either in English, in German, or ...
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