When Kentucky Coach John Calipari was talking to a group of 15 Chinese basketball coaches at his home last November, one pointed to Calipari's hulking German shepherd, Dash.
Why couldn't German be witty, dashing, curt, tough?
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, dashed any lingering hope in financial markets that Europe would issue common euro zone bonds to underpin its single currency after Spain formally became the fourth country to request a financial rescue.
A good dose of color lifts the spirits, which may explain why many people on the avenues are mixing colors with the abandon of the painters known as Les Fauves (the Wild Beasts), or the German Expressionists, who dashed the sweet-pea palette of the Victorians to pieces in the early 20th century.
Throw a dash of German into the mix (the German community, which dominated business here in the 1920's and 30's, is still so large that there's a Lufthansa counter at San Antonio airport), and you have the basis for endless cultural permutations and explorations.
Though structured as a farce — with more than a dash of German Expressionism — the script is black comedy at its sootiest and most rageful.
"Until recently, the ears have been ignored by the tech industry," says Darko Dragicevic of Bragi, the German creators of the Dash, "the world's first hearable".
In a reversal of his cosmopolitanism, he mocked those who "blend Auberian piquancy with a Donizetti emphasis upon singing and add a dash of German thoughtfulness by way of compensation".
Adept at fencing, cricket, French, and German, he had a dashing war: he served as an intelligence officer with the Royal Air Force, first in North Africa and then during the invasion of Sicily and the battle of Monte Cassino.
Greipel beat points leader Peter Sagan of Slovakia and fellow German Marcel Kittel in the dash for the line.
