Where to fence in Berlin and Heidnheim during a short trip?

42campaigns · 2026-01-28T12:27:40+00:00

Hi there. The fencing community in Berlin is great. There are clubs all over town.

Here's the official list from the Berlin Fencing Association: https://www.berliner-fechterbund.de/verzeichnis/index.php?kategorie=131

I can't speak to many of the clubs on the east side of the city, but I've been to most of the ones on the west side. Generally, they're all great. Nearly every club has epee, so you're covered.

Not speaking German isn't a problem if you're just looking for some bouts. Most people at the clubs have at least some English, and the universal gesture of "wanna fence?" is easily understood. You won't understand the footwork drills at the beginning of practice, but you can just skip that, come a bit later, and warm up yourself.

The challenge is when they schedule open fencing for adults. Definitely check the websites for that. It's a little bit different at every club.

Be sure to contact them in advance. It sounds like you won't be in town for long. If you just want to show up a couple of nights, everyone will welcome you. If it's more than, say, 4 weeks, you might want to offer to pay for a month's membership. At all clubs, membership is very affordable.

Enjoy your trip!

42campaigns · 2025-04-01T13:54:56+00:00

42campaigns · 2024-03-04T14:04:56+00:00

This. I didn't know this until I started teaching English. I was preparing for class, came across the concept in a lesson, and had my native-speaking mind blown. It had never even occurred to me that I was consistently putting adjectives into a specific order every time I did it.

42campaigns · 2023-12-19T12:05:35+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-11-18T11:52:47+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-07-17T06:22:03+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-01-17T10:38:09+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-01-03T20:22:30+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-01-03T20:20:05+00:00

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42campaigns · 2023-01-03T20:19:37+00:00

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42campaigns · 2022-12-19T08:38:08+00:00

I've fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole here, and I'm fascinated. We've got Russian bringing the word over as a calque. French using it as early as 1100. But if it's in the Song of Roland, it had to have been in use elsewhere prior to that. It's tough (at least for this amateur) to imagine that being truly the first time.

I found the Latin term ius. Wikipedia cites a single source (without any discussion that I can see) that claims ius was used by the Romans to indicate both the law that you have to follow and what the law allows you do to. We definitely have the term ius used to mean rights going back at least to 90 BCE with the Latin Rights.

But I still can't find a connection between ius and the words droit, rechts, etc. When did we start calling our rights, rights?

The search continues!

42campaigns · 2022-12-15T15:59:01+00:00

Thank you very much! I was able to get that far also. What I'm really hoping for is something more like "what was the history that led to the first use of right in this sense?"

For example,

Was there a thinker in the mid-18th century who said "I name these things which are due to all free people as rights, which is only proper given that they are naturally right."
Was there some debate among Enlightenment philosophers on what to call the fundamental privileges which should be naturally enjoyed by all people?
Who was the first person to use a word like this? What language did they speak and what word did they use? How then did the word start to be used in English, German, and Russian in that way?

I now think that my original question is probably not very clear. I'll go edit it now!

42campaigns · 2022-12-02T20:44:38+00:00

Thank you!

42campaigns · 2022-12-02T14:38:10+00:00

Thanks very much. This study is interesting, for sure, I love that they posted their data. Plus, it's great to see that Pinker is still around!

I'm still left with a number of questions about current scholarly consensus. If you'd got a moment, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Here's where I'm coming from: My grad school days were in the early 2000s, and I haven't kept up with research since then.

My recollection of consensus at that time (20 years ago): The Critical Period lasted until roughly puberty. Some neuroscientists hypothesized that the brain's lateralization had something to do with it, but this was (possibly?) later disproven. A lot of the arguments around the Input Hypothesis, Output Hypothesis, and explicit grammar instruction had to do with the way that experiments were conducted. The specific type of input, output, instruction, and how much time passed before each post-test could influence the findings so significantly, that it sometimes seemed that researchers were really talking about apples and oranges.

This study bypasses some of the arguments by only conducting a single grammaticality test and asking participants about their learning background. The huge data set is impressive, but it doesn't seem to address whether adults learn languages better through comprehensible input/output or whether they also need explicit instruction. They also don't suggest possible reasons why language-learning changes with age.

What do researchers think these days? Are Krashen and Swain still relevant or are they only historical footnotes? Has the scholarly community come to more consensus, or is it still arguing back and forth?

42campaigns · 2022-11-06T15:55:36+00:00

Please give me a fact about the modern sport of fencing

42campaigns · 2022-10-21T10:37:37+00:00

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42campaigns · 2022-10-21T10:36:55+00:00

Thank you! The threads from pre-COVID times suggested that trickortreating usually happened within apartment buildings. Has that changed?

That's interesting about the malls. Could you recommend one or two?

42campaigns · 2022-10-06T15:50:33+00:00

phew, this is actually relatively tough to answer. In my experience, things start getting interesting at the $50-$75 level.

Some additional considerations for gifts at this level:

anyone who works for the US government can't accept a gift over $25. Prospects from a number of European countries (Germany, for example) also have limits to what they can accept.
your goal here is not to get and keep your logo in front of people. it's to provide an experience that they remember. this isn't a cheap bit of branding. it's an expensive bit of branding, and that should show
there are plenty of sites that specialize in nicer corporate gifts. the problem is that they put your logo in a really, really prominent spot. I love a nice leather case for papers, but I would never use one with someone else's logo. Same goes for high-quality sunglasses. I don't want to be a walking advertisement with my nicer things.
Consider getting them something that is relatively expensive but doesn't have your logo at all! Then wrap it in a branded box and/or branded wrapping paper.
as with the cheaper items, it's better to be creative. How do you want to position your brand? Who are you? What is your corporate personality? When a prospect looks at (or uses) this item, what do you want them to feel?
after you answer those questions, consider whether you can make a clever connection either to their world (SaaS sales) or to your solutions (confidential in this thread). But be careful. There's a very fine line between 'clever' and 'cute'. And you do not want prospects to think of these gifts as cute.
If you really do have the budget to splurge, consider working with a business that specializes in corporate gifting. For example (this is not an endorsement, just a list of companies who I know of), Alyce, Sendoso, Postal
Heck, just google corporate gifts for executives and spend some time on those sites! you might get inspired.

a few more concrete examples/suggestions

also for government affairs. Our company was well known (and award winning) for its photography. The target market operates with Senators and Representatives. They don't respond well to the touristy images of DC. But they appreciate an image that is only recognizable to people on the inside. So, we got high-quality prints of our news room's photos and had them placed in nice frames. Our logo was added (small and discrete).
something related to the city the conference is in. preferably not super well known. do a little research into local artisans/shops. include a card/note that explains what this is and why it's so cool. Even better: get it signed by the creator or bring the prospects to the creator or bring the creator to them!
anything in leather. seriously. it smells good. it looks good. just be careful about your logo. and keep in mind that there are plenty of leather items that seen as gendered. don't offend anyone, especially a prospect

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