British Diana Aug 25, 2010:

Wow, what happened to this between May and late August?!!

Lancashireman May 13, 2010:

Honi soit qui mal y pense A vote for Camilla's opening gambit: Clucking good fun

BrigitteHilgner May 13, 2010:

What a cackle I like it! (As a translation, not if I have to be in the middle of it. ;-)

kriddl May 13, 2010:

Nice! :-)

Sarah Bessioud (asker) May 13, 2010:

Gegacker Thank you Brigitte for adding this perspective. What about "What a cackle"? Cackle describes both the sound of hens and shrill laughter http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cackles

BrigitteHilgner May 13, 2010:

gackern I know the word "gackern" in the sense of many people speaking at once (and in a loud voice). Was für ein Gegacker! - What noise! (made by human voices)

Helen Shiner May 13, 2010:

Chicken Looks like the chicken features here, too:
http://issuu.com/hochschwarzwald/docs/hochschwarzwald_hochku...
Might be stuck with the chicken! Just trying to think with PR hat on.

Sarah Bessioud (asker) May 13, 2010:

Sorry... if I confused everyone with the link - it was purely intended to provide some information about what the festival involved

Helen Shiner May 13, 2010:

Ok my comments were based on the link you gave. Question then is whether your list will ever come in contact with the festival logo (whatever that is).

Sarah Bessioud (asker) May 13, 2010:

Forget the chickens? The list that I am translating doesn't actually have a picture of a chicken on it - just the mention of 'Alles gackert'. If I forget about the clucking chickens there's no end of possibilities.

Nicole Schnell May 13, 2010:

@ Jeux_de_Mots No, I wouldn't read too much into the chickens, except the fact that girls often are called Hühner. :-) What I would give to be able to watch the duck race, though...

Helen Shiner May 13, 2010:

@ Jeux_de_Mots Since you are stuck with the picture of the chicken on the website, you probably will have to go with a hen reference somehow, I guess, unless you just leave it in German and put something simple as an explanation in brackets (e.g. Summer Festival - though you may have a better suggestion). I think if you try too hard to come up with something related to giggling or cackling, the potential EN-speaking audience will be alienated. Isn't this about getting the punters in in the end?

kriddl May 13, 2010:

Fest des Huhns? It's probably just a play on words, but then again you never know, cf. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Fest_des_Huhnes

Sarah Bessioud (asker) May 13, 2010:

Thanks Nicole So I shouldn't read too much into the chickens then?

Nicole Schnell May 13, 2010:

Hi, Jeux_de_Mots Play on words, because the word "gackern" as a synonym for "giggling" (rather an onomatopoeia) has made its way into German youth language not tooooo long ago. :-)

Sarah Bessioud (asker) May 13, 2010:

Thank you Thank you all for your help and suggestions. My original ideas also revolved around 'clucking', but I was also aware that it was two letters away from something best avoided ("It's clucking great!"). Unfortunately, I don't know why there's a photo of a chicken on the site, nor whether chickens play a part in the actual event (the mind boggles!). Nicole, you spoke about it being a play on words already - can you explain please, I think I may have missed something ;-)

kriddl May 13, 2010:

Agree with Camilla.

Nicole Schnell May 13, 2010:

With Camilla. It is already a play on words, and "giggling" and "laughter" was my spontaneous idea, too.

Camilla Seifert May 13, 2010:

Clucking, cackling - comes to mind. Gackern is sometimes also used for "giggling" - depending on the dialect. You could go for a play on words such as " 'Cackling' good fun" (I would avoid "Clucking good fun" - which could be slightly misinterpreted through a minor subsitition of a letter or two! (Apologies - but we have to consider all aspects of words here).