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Larva
A text fighting for a very noble cause has caught my attention: it is a poignant plea to save the traffic light pictograms! Yes, that's right!
Ampelmännchen
Save the Traffic Light Males!
Welcomely, which will perhaps help her to save a small defenseless male.
In the framework also the former GDR male is to disappear to a European-wide
standardization of the traffic light characters. Why actually? We do not
know also. Finally this male one is expressed friendly and helpful appearance.
And they go - and - still. Reason of enough to go to the traffic light
male a just as friendly and helpful hand.
Still another article (lamp instead of traffic light): Lamp instead
of traffic light reminding it itself still of the socialist traffic light
version in the colours of the DDR?An those swearing to spread lever of
the maennleins with red? And to its green brother, who loszuhasten in the
Stechschritt and with bended elbows seemed? Exchanged against schnoerkelfreie,
hat and poorless west colleagues, the end of the compact chap larva seemed
sealed in GDR.
It's the 3rd time we meet a larva in the text. This time I found an explanation: they wrote "made" in english, the translator assumed it was german, thus choosed "worm" or "larva" as a translation.
But the traffic light male retrained and transfers now functions
in the indoor service. Because traffic lights are rather unusual however
in the dwelling, from the traffic light male a lamp male became. With laurel
ring drumrum and also not quite cheaply.
Schlappe 200 Marks costs the green
" keep on walking" version respectively " don't the stop ME now" execution
in red. For both designer Markus tail living in the gallery August route
75 gives however discount. The traffic light lamps produce " a radiating
banknote at the wall ", schwaermt for Markus tail living and suggest placing
it " on the desk or the soil ". Why actually not to the bath door? If nut/mother
pushes next time to the spiegelschrank, father can read on the newspaper in peace
and needs " filled " to not constantly call. Because outside the
" Dont stop ME now" Ampellampe lights up.
Once more, the software made a mess of people's names. We just had Markus tail, and I am pretty sure this is not the name of this poor guy. And soon we will meet Jurgen cutter
(...) Meanwhile the traffic light males are fewer in
the streetscape, present for it more and more on counters: Gebannt on postcards,
stamps or labels. They progress more wacker on designer lamps and pedal
than traffic light Hampelmaennchen - sketched from joint founderjoint founder
joint founder, caricaturist and committee fellow combatant Heinz Behling.
Still traffic light man CD comes shortly on the Markt."Leicht beswingt
and rockig, a little as breaks and to Weill ", says creator Juergen cutter.
And the song begins in such a way: " the traffic light man is rather small,
drum fits he into the lamp purely ". Become green and red males the artists
Eleonore Straub and Guenter Haring in installations flash let. The two
see themselves as activists of the traffic light man movement. Because
they already in April 1995 innumerable " Geher " in potsdam to a work of
art arranged. The question remains, from where one gets nowadays cast-off
east traffic light males. In the " scene " the senate traffic administration
applies as tip gives there it the maennlein to actually buy. Pardon. Gave.
The supplies are exhausted, were to be experienced there. And the supply
rich for the demand, which can be expected, not out. At present more than
300 prospective customers on a waiting list would be.
The above is a Babbelfish translation of this page.
Are you kidding ? Are you saying that it is not a translator with 15 years experience who did the job ?
