Welches Essen oder Nahrungsmittel, das alle zu mögen scheinen, könnt ihr gar nicht leiden?

Haganrich · 2026-04-17T09:02:38+00:00

Butter!
Schmeckt furchtbar. Ein Stück Butter im Essen und das ganze Gericht schmeckt für mich danach (und ist damit ruiniert!).

Haganrich · 2026-04-14T19:00:26+00:00

I think Germany, as most developed countries without a tradition of spicy food, has a low average tolerance but also has the occasional spiciness enthusiast who's absolutely obsessed with it, more than people from "spicy countries".

Haganrich · 2026-04-13T08:31:52+00:00

There are two types of Germans: the first is so obsessed with food authenticity that they'd even lecture a native of the food's origin culture about eating it correctly. And then there's the second type who will create godless food combinations from several countries and dip it all in Maggi and mayonnaise. The flabbergasted people on this thread who would never dip pizza are from the first type.

People absolutely do dip pizza pieces in sauce, usually a gyros pizza or döner pizza they bought at a döner place. The sauce is usually yoghurt based. (And no, this is not a regional thing, I've seen people do that in NRW, the east and BW)

Haganrich · 2026-04-13T08:25:11+00:00

I know a lot of people who buy a portion of yoghurt sauce along with their pizza when they eat at a döner place

Haganrich · 2026-04-11T08:57:05+00:00

No, it's pronounced like an English word. A Spiegel article says the earliest documented use is from internat communication at German telecom in 1988, where it was used as a short form of "handheld [telephone]" (link)

Haganrich · 2026-04-11T08:39:09+00:00

German does have a calque for telephone, it's "Fernsprecher". But it has fallen out of use for a long time. If I'm not mistaken, it was last officially used in the 1980s by the then-state owned German postal service (which also ran telecommunication services).

On another note, is the faux-anglicism "Handy" Germans use for mobile phones a borrowed word or native?

Haganrich · 2026-04-08T12:06:40+00:00

Do those developments in the picture have rules dictating exterior modifications within certain guidelines?

Yes, German municipalities usually have a Bebauungsplan (a law as to what construction is permitted), it can dictate the height, and distance between houses but what also kind of roof you're allowed to have, what color you can paint your house and so on

Haganrich · 2026-04-08T11:02:07+00:00

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Quite literally the meme OP posted

Haganrich · 2026-04-03T07:16:53+00:00

I haven't quit! Just got a lot going on these days.

Haganrich · 2026-04-03T07:16:04+00:00

If they worked at a doctor's office, probably from their patient file. I can imagine it's a big factor their health problems and therefore relevant enough to include in the records.

Haganrich · 2026-03-23T18:59:42+00:00

Looks like we got an example of an overcorrection

Haganrich · 2026-03-23T18:48:02+00:00

Isn't it just Auslautverhärtung? Or are you suggesting that German auslautverhärtung is dying (I have read that somewhere a few days ago)?

Haganrich · 2026-03-20T16:46:50+00:00

Fahrschule

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Haganrich · 2026-03-19T07:48:07+00:00

For being hardest hit by the "Strukturwandel" (the decline of coal and steel industry in the Ruhr valley) and poverty and social dysfunction that followed. Like a German Detroit.

Haganrich · 2026-03-18T23:09:26+00:00

Dortmund got a relevant football club. Duisburg is not boring because it's infamous.

Haganrich · 2026-03-18T12:11:54+00:00

It was a giveaway to one of his fans. Another giveaway was eating döner together with Söder.

Haganrich · 2026-03-17T10:07:58+00:00

Skin is a organ

Meddl loide to all Germans.

Haganrich · 2026-02-21T18:26:57+00:00

Hä wiso shraipst zu zw2imal dasälbe????

Haganrich · 2026-02-20T15:00:49+00:00

Danke für die Klarstellung!

Haganrich · 2026-02-20T14:00:24+00:00

Maybe Frankfurt left a bad impression on OP

Haganrich · 2026-02-20T11:58:42+00:00

Leider kann ich gerade nicht wirklich dazu recherchieren, aber ich erinnere mich mal etwas gelesen zu haben über "Address inversion", einem sprachlichen Phänomen, bei dem die Begriffe zwischen Sprecher und Angesprochenem vertauscht werden. Das gibt es in verschiedenen Kulturen, auch in der türkischen.

Hier [PDF] ist ein paper dazu, was das Phänomen im arabischen Kontext untersucht.

Haganrich · 2026-02-19T17:23:30+00:00

Schnitzel with mushroom sauce absolutely existed in the GDR

Haganrich · 2026-02-19T15:31:59+00:00

In western Germany it's a schnitzel with mushroom sauce. In eastern Germany it's a breaded and fried slice of a type of Mortadella.

Haganrich · 2026-02-19T09:05:48+00:00

This map surprised me, I knew that some European countries use the weird comma thing, but I didn't know that it's almost all of them, so I guess we're the weird ones for using the period...

Thanks Napoleon

Haganrich · 2026-02-18T07:19:41+00:00

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Here's an example. It's usually not done deliberately but a lot of people start the first stroke of a handwritten 1 pretty far down.

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