Hello everybody!

Can anybody come up with an idiomatic translation of the German
phrase "sich eine Existenz aufbauen"?

Pete wrote:
Hello everybody!

Can anybody come up with an idiomatic translation of the German
phrase "sich eine Existenz aufbauen"?

"Make a (new) life for oneself" or "set up a business".

Regards,
Ekkehard

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
Pete wrote:
Hello everybody!

Can anybody come up with an idiomatic translation of the German
phrase "sich eine Existenz aufbauen"?

"Make a (new) life for oneself" or "set up a business".

Regards,
Ekkehard

ED:

And what think you of working "start" into both of those
formulations?

By the way, maybe you can help a local partner who has a yen for a
wolpertinger
to accompany his jackalope?

Edward Hennessey wrote:
Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
Pete wrote:
Hello everybody!

Can anybody come up with an idiomatic translation of the
German
phrase "sich eine Existenz aufbauen"?

"Make a (new) life for oneself" or "set up a business".

Regards,
Ekkehard

ED:

And what think you of working "start" into both of those
formulations?

I think not. It's true that "aufbauen" usually implies an
ongoing
process, but not in this particular case, I think, which is
probably
why "sich in kürzester Zeit eine Existenz aufbauen" does not
seem a
contradiction in terms. I suppose you can replace "make" with
"build"
if the context justifies it, though.

By the way, maybe you can help a local partner who has a yen
for a
wolpertinger
to accompany his jackalope?

Not sure what you want done, but probably not, I'm afraid. I
mean I
might be able to help, but not if what he or she needs is a
wolpertinger.

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
Edward Hennessey wrote:
Ekkehard Dengler wrote:


ED:

It may amuse you to know that taxidermists actually sell stuffed
jackalopes, grafting the horns from a pronghorn antelope or deer
antlers unto a jackrabbit. Ah, I now learn similar things occur
in
Germany with
the wolpertinger.

For those unaware of these marvelous creatures, there are some
pages worth a humorous peek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope

http://www.google.com/search?q=jackalope&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/may/hpv
Note the 1932 reference in the above, the picture of a deformed
rabbit and the interesting
connection with papilloma viruses which are behind HPV and may
explain the folkloric origin of both the wolpertinger and
the jackalope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger

Somewhere I have a picture of Bettina rodeoing with a
wolpertinger
but when I find it, she will pay a pretty penny
for the negative.

Regards,

Edward Hennessey