Saturday, December 8, 2018

A Storm Like None Other- Ach!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/europe/merkel-storm-translation-germany.html

I am surprised that German has to equivalent, given their use of the s-word. Oh well. Interesting that John Irving coined it about Günter Grass- two of my favorite authors. 
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