A "Beamter" is a civil servant in Germany with very sweet perks such as lifetime employment, long vacations, and nice retirement benefits. We tend to brutally make fun of some Beamten due to their lack of engagement or speed with which they do their jobs. Someone who is being "verbeamtet" is in the process of being admitted of the ranks of Beamter. Claudia Quoting Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Does anyone know what "verbeamtet" means? As in "jemand, der verbeamtet > ist..."? It's not in my dictionary. It's not in my online dictionary. I > googled it on Google.de and then hit the automatic translate button (which is > really terrible when it comes to any translating, but I thought it would give > me some sort of idea) and it didn't translate. I'm out of ideas. > Anyone? > > Erin > TO > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- Dr. Claudia K. Grinnell Director, English Writing Center The University of Louisiana at Monroe Department of English 318.342.1512 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html