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Cockney in Kilburn

fm1721 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:39:33 +0000

Surprise, surprise London’s not different to other cities when it comes to having it’s own distinct dialect. But how come that THE London dialect hasn’t got it’s roots in the city or in one of the posh areas in and near the centre?

Read the full blog on http://www.fm1721.com/2011/02/16/cockney-in-kilburn/

Worldwide Austria

fm1721 — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:36:12 +0000

Who said that Austria is an island (of bliss) in the centre of Europe, a tiny system on it’s own? Nowadays Austrian companies and brands are going out for taking over the world. Doing that they’re applying high sophisticated marketing and branding strategies, ain’t they?

Read the full blog on http://www.fm1721.com/2011/01/01/worldwide-austria/

(In)Visible Street art

fm1721 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:59:50 +0000

Recently I’ve been moaning about street art in London. A couple of weeks passed by though and I have to admit now that I was wrong. To some extent. I discovered street artists making the invisible visible.

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/12/19/in-visible-street-art/

Letter to the TFL

fm1721 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:54:19 +0000

What’s wrong with you guys, for fuck’s sake? It can’t be that difficult sending your two Overground trains per hour on time, can it? I mean it’s only two trains… Why can you guys not just offer a proper service?

Read the full letter on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/12/16/letter-to-the-tfl/

Street art… here and there

fm1721 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:11:39 +0000

Art could be defined quite narrow: paintings, sculptures, literature, music; all these classic ways of artists expressing their view on certain things. But nowadays art is more than that. Street art for instance became quite popular. Looking for the street art community in London might disappoint though.

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/10/17/street-art-here-and-there/

What a postcode can tell…

fm1721 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:48:58 +0000

Coming from countries like Austria or Germany I was used to postcodes describing whole districts, villages and even smaller towns. That’s different in the UK where postcodes have been introduced to locate single streets or even houses. That’s grand when spinning this thought out!

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/09/28/what-a-postcode-can-tell/

Blobitecture

fm1721 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:16:13 +0000

Creative industries have largely been transitioning from offline to online in the last couple of years. That’s good in many respects. Fortunately the offline world doesn’t entirely die off – there are still brilliant creative minds out there, offline. Blobitects for instance.

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/08/17/blobitecture/

Rather Hausverstand than common sense

fm1721 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:13:31 +0000

When growing up in Austria you very soon learn what Hausverstand is. When coming as Austrian to the UK you might have the impression that they haven’t got an equivalent for Hausverstand in the English language. The British rather use common sense for getting along with each others. But let’s hold on a second. What exactly are Hausverstand and common sense?

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/08/09/common-sense-or-hausverstand/

It’s not because they are stupid!

fm1721 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:11:18 +0000

The other day I learned that certain things are not happening because they are stupid, no there’s another reason: It’s because they have special needs. In my defence I have to say that I wouldn’t have thought that they are stupid, not all of them.

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/07/30/it-s-not-because-they-are-stupid/

Weltanschauung or Zeitgeist?

fm1721 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:09:33 +0000

When thinking of the English language then we inevitably think of internationality. When walking through London we hear loads of different languages and might tend to presume that the British are open minded for other cultures and consequently other languages. However I do believe that they’re mainly not.

Read the full article on http://www.fm1721.com/2010/07/20/weltanschauung-or-zeitgeist/