1) Displaying breasts in
advertising (esp when depicting breastfeeding) don't seem to be a big deal over
here.
2) When it's sub zero (-4 degrees C), walking to the train sucks SO much.
3) When you're not sure when the next train is coming (but really, it's going to be there within 10 minutes), and you see the train pulling into the station, There's such a desire to run the last 100m to catch it, that it's almost unbearable. Luckily, I have no illusions about my dignity.
4) Where we lived in the US, smokers had to be at least 25' away from building entrances. Here, it seems to be 25mm. There is definitely more smoking here in Germany than on the West coast of the US.
5) Flurfunk in Germany is like "the grapevine" in the US. Office gossip, the unstructured flow of information, rumors, etc. I just like to say FlurFunk.
2) When it's sub zero (-4 degrees C), walking to the train sucks SO much.
3) When you're not sure when the next train is coming (but really, it's going to be there within 10 minutes), and you see the train pulling into the station, There's such a desire to run the last 100m to catch it, that it's almost unbearable. Luckily, I have no illusions about my dignity.
4) Where we lived in the US, smokers had to be at least 25' away from building entrances. Here, it seems to be 25mm. There is definitely more smoking here in Germany than on the West coast of the US.
5) Flurfunk in Germany is like "the grapevine" in the US. Office gossip, the unstructured flow of information, rumors, etc. I just like to say FlurFunk.
I have to address the elephant in the
room (A us colloquialism). Everywhere you see words like "AusFahrt"
and "EinFahrt". As a crass american I have to giggle.
But I'm trying to suss out
the difference between AusGang and Ausfahrt. Ausgang seems to be like an exit
from inside to outside where Ausfahrt is like a driving, or riding exit.
For the record, don't use the
urban dictionary to look up german words
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