OK. So I’ve been on Facebook several times today, and there’s been nothing out of the ordinary. I’ve surfed to my start page several times.
And now, having just entered from a new Mozilla session, it’s turned German. Obviously, I don’t mean the things that are posted by me or by others, but all the standard FB link texts.
Now I have no objection to German as such. In fact, I can use it fairly well and always welcome a small foreign language challenge from time to time. But why me? And why now?
One unusual thing has happened today," but I doubt there’s any connection. I’ve been listening to the audiobook One Summer by Bill Bryson, and just came to where he discusses Jakob Ruppert, an early owner of the Yankees. Jakob, though a third generation American had kept his family’s German accent, so that for example instead of “Ruth” he would say something like “Root”. I was just googling for this team owner’s name before the facebook thing happened.
And he was a collector of many things. He was noted for having the country’s finest collection of small monkeys. I can just imagine such a character in a film, played by one of our more ponderous screen legends like Sydney Greenstreet, talking at length about his collection of diminutive simians. Of course, he is boring his guests to tears.
There are two subspecies of red-crested marmoset, I seem to hear him saying,* each with its own interesting history. Now Mico mico microscopium is known for…*
What gifts life gives us. Now no matter where I am or how bad things get, I can imagine a fat man jawing on and on about his collection of tiny monkeys.