Real Life................

good luck with the new job. Keep us up to date with any guitar shops in Berlin. It's good to know where they are in every major city.

Glückwunsch!

Will you eventually relocate to Berlin? It may well be my favorite city. Or will you resettle in Beervaria after the transition?

Either way, it sounds like fun.

Tim

Thanks, folks. The Berlin lark is only until the company can organise an office in Munich - and for my training, which won't be too long.
After the end of March, I shall be mostly working from home, when I'm not at a customer's site.
I'm hoping that I can get some time to practice and to make a few recordings - I seem to be the new patron of an instrumental thread :?

Stopped off in Berlin for an hour on my way to Vienna last year, and on the way home too. There must be more to the place than a puddle on a runway.

Have fun, dude. when I was working in Frankfurt and gave people the choice of the same training course in London or Berlin, everybody wanted to go to Berlin.

There's nothing wrong with Berlin, I've been there a few times. I'm actually working in Potsdam, way out in the sticks.
I'll muddle through, somehow :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hey, all I know is I found a cool guitar store in Aachen (don't know how far that is, but nothing seemed that far away) when I was over for World Cup fun in July. I have a picture of me standing under this gigantic red Fender type guitar which lured me away from World Cup souvenir shopping. So there are guitar stores in Germany!

Congrats, Graham!

I hope that you enjoy your new job and if you should ever find yourself heading to New York, sing out. Many mods live within three hours of the "city that never sleeps."

Peace

Good luck with your new job :D New jobs are always a challenge, but hopefully its worth it :wink: --ken

Hey, all I know is I found a cool guitar store in Aachen (don't know how far that is, but nothing seemed that far away) when I was over for World Cup fun in July. I have a picture of me standing under this gigantic red Fender type guitar which lured me away from World Cup souvenir shopping. So there are guitar stores in Germany!

I got my stage classical from a guitar shop in Frankfurt which had a huge sunburst Les Paul over the doorway. They must all use the same shopfitters hee hee

Congratulations on the new job, Graham! :D

Thanks, folks.
This is my second day, here, and I'm being mercilessly misused to translate all the company's sales docs - into American English!!!!!

So, I need your help (I only speak English English).

If I have a list of items, cars trains boats planes, would I separate them with all commas,
i.e cars, trains, boats, and planes
or would I separate them:
cars, trains, boats and planes?

The difference being the comma before the "and".

Ta, so much.

You do not need the comma before the "and"

"Cars, trains, boats and planes" is correct

:-)

But we'll accept either. Indeed, my Bedford Handbook for Writers says that commas should be used "between all items in a series". Nevertheless, it is common to omit it before the "and" if it is the final element. Otherwise, however, I think it is preferred to include it if there are three or more items in the series.

Quoting again from the Bedford Handbook: "Although some writers view the comma between the last two items [of a series] as optional, most experts advise using the comma because its omission can result in ambiguity or misreading."

Commas are so much easier in German.

I like it better with the extra comma. Either is OK.