Fehler im System

Here is where I will post fun errors regarding visual representations of Germany  or other German things.

-MS

Someone is having fun in Europe at Germany’s expense. From Corbis Images corbis.com
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Wrong flag waving on German TV

Wrong flag in Graphik on German TV

Just to show that they mess up other flags from other countries..

Berlitz Software with horribly innapropriate map of “Deutschland”.

CNN Gets into the game

USA Today as well

The point I am making here is not that mistakes happen, but that consumers of media are visually bombarded to a point where authenticity and accuracy are overlooked. If a German TV station can overlook its’ own national flag as a mistake, perhaps there might be a small Fehler im System?

I ellaborate thoroughly on this subject in an article showing how cultures are treated as one monolithic beast in language learning software. Images in these programs are treated as interchangeable between cultures and languages. For a longer look at the subject, see CALL, commercialism and culture: inherent software design conflicts and their results.

ReCALL archive
Volume 15 ,  Issue 2  (November 2003) table of contents

Pages: 251 – 268
Year of Publication: 2003
ISSN:0958-3440
Aryan Tobacco

Aryan Tobacco

Located on Carson Street on the South Side of Pittsburgh, this new shop chose an unfortunate name. It recently changed its name to Aryas Tobacco.

Random Photos from The Internet

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