July 6th, 2018

zeitonline "Wie es in der Redaktion war? Sie kennen Meryl Streep in "Der Teufel trägt Prada"? So war Angelica #Blechschmidt. Nur, man verzeihe mir das, Angelica Blechschmidt war sexier." zeit.de/2018/28/angeli…

9:18 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via ZEITonline (retweeted on 9:32 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

ojahnn Working on my draft one task at a time pic.twitter.com/dORRvD8nsd

5:21 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 5:23 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

EnglishGibson “…konnte auf viele Unterstützer [innerhalb eines Personenkreises] zurückgreifen”

is not so much:

“…was able to draw on the support of many of [the members of a social circle]

but rather:

“…had the support of many of [the members of a social circle]”.

5:17 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:22 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

EnglishGibson German often likes to phrase things using modal verb + main verb, tempting the translator to follow suit. But beware! What German means when it says:

5:15 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 5:22 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

frachtschaden why i really like that paper titles in biology are always formulated as statements pic.twitter.com/BLs9zazhUA

4:03 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:13 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

ojahnn Every morning I read my current paper draft and think, wow, when did I do all this interesting research? Guess it all feels like fiddling around with data until you write it down, and then it suddenly looks like actual progress. #phdchat

2:58 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:21 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)

mayhplumb Yeah sure I started grad school and resubmitted a journal article but my proudest accomplishment of 2017 is this embroidered English vowel chart pic.twitter.com/d78m8KADHm

12:32 AM, Dec 7th, 2017 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 2:15 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

C_W_M_O würde gern ein paar tweets löschen aber geht nicht weil sind eure

10:51 AM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:24 PM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter Web Client)

skeptikantin “What's the name of the station? In LED font, please.“ pic.twitter.com/3jSn8CqmTb

1:09 AM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:44 AM, Jul 6th, 2018 via Twitter for Android)