Germany: What is Mayday for?

[BigSwede]

I don't demonstrate much nowadays.
I usually go out just to watch the annual motorcycleparade,which had over 850 bikes this year.
Then I go gome.

[Visvaldis]

Originally Posted by effie briest

..... and read FAZ - they returned to the old spelling rules (which i prefer as well, sans conservatism!)

Yes, the old Duden problem. I didn't read the FAZ too often, believing it was a conservative publication. Isn't the FAZ more for reporting business and financial news? I think they used the old fraktur typeface for the front page.
I always preferred the Frankfurter Rundschau! Now, online.

[effie g-tad]

Originally Posted by Visvaldis

Yes, the old Duden problem. I didn't read the FAZ too often, believing it was a conservative publication. Isn't the FAZ more for reporting business and financial news? I think they used the old fraktur typeface for the front page.
I always preferred the Frankfurter Rundschau! Now, online.

wow, you seem well informed now, don't you?

and i would certainly share this particular preference.. (without wanting to look biased or worse wanting to proselytize, of course!!)

[bluebeard]

May Day is not strictly a German Holiday. It's an international Labor Day.
The US doesn't celebrate cuz we wanted to be opposed to anything evenly tagentially Soviet.