GR translation: Advertisements for shelter, clothing, the lost, the taken

[Mark Kohut]

lost pets, stolen bikes, etc...once secret or known only within a
community---a meaning of classified---now folded
burgerlich in the classified sections of newspapers:

More meanings for bürgerlich
civil <https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/german-word-for-civil.html>
adjective

zivil
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-zivil.html>,
höflich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-4b319ddb287843251160e1acf063ff92ca7fa65e.html>
, staatlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-staatlich.html>
, staatsbürgerlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-e23feb60a20db1b31ebb740fbca28adfac2b6bcb.html>
, korrekt
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-korrekt.html>
bourgeois
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/german-word-for-bourgeois.html>
adjective

bourgeois
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-5921cf026cc825e53f0f8c83747a9584de65f38b.html>
, spießig
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-f595fadd02d1857814a1f0d625ef23723c37d93e.html>
, spießbürgerlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-824f65791dc5f571186afc11028d9c294275148c.html>
civic
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/german-word-for-b8cebd5008f626e485ab37c7e2b8f715eda374c1.html>
 adjective

staatsbürgerlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-e23feb60a20db1b31ebb740fbca28adfac2b6bcb.html>
, städtisch
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-992f97fa037f390955103e334f27f81f2705ac9d.html>
homely <https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/german-word-for-homely.html>
adjective

gemütlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-gemutlich.html>
, wohnlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-wohnlich.html>
, heimelig
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-heimelig.html>
, häuslich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-0705f8ad35840e6e94feeb897fed66cca916814a.html>
, behaglich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-behaglich.html>
middle-class
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/german-word-for-middle-class.html>
adjective

spießig
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-f595fadd02d1857814a1f0d625ef23723c37d93e.html>
, spießbürgerlich
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-824f65791dc5f571186afc11028d9c294275148c.html>
, mittelständisch
<https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of/german-word-1e451c72f4d1a56706132bc6ee87505147c51403.html>




On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V373.12-19, P379.11-18    Advertisements for shelter, clothing, the lost,
> the taken, once classified, folded bürgerlich inside newspapers to be read
> at one’s ease in the lacquered and graceful parlors are now stuck with
> Hitler-head stamps of blue, orange, and yellow, out in the wind, when the
> wind comes, stuck to trees, door-frames, planking, pieces of wall—white and
> fading scraps, writing spidery, trembling, smudged, thousands unseen,
> thousands unread or blown away.
>
> What does "the lost" and "the taken" mean here?
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