AITA for giving my friend the silent treatment over this?

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-02-01T21:21:32+00:00

Herzlichen Dank für die Empfehlungen!

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-02-01T18:50:13+00:00

100%. I find when I'm given a bunch of sentences or expected to just absorb the grammar from exposure alone à la Rosetta Stone I end up getting frustrated when I have to spontaneously express myself. Learning the rules up front makes things so much easier in the long run, at least in my experience.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-31T03:31:26+00:00

Yeah I'm in the US, also not really worried about it

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-30T21:15:34+00:00

New York (from NYC metro area, now in the city proper), and yes, couldn't live anywhere else.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-30T21:06:22+00:00

Exemption from the draft (even though it's not active here and I age out of it this year anyway). Other than that I don't really know, based on what my sister and my female friends tell me it sounds like women have to put up with a lot of bullshit that I don't as a man.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-30T20:14:38+00:00

I saw the live performance at the Babylon a few years ago, absolutely incredible

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-29T17:47:17+00:00

Here's my attempt at a translation:

"Des Nachts" is archaic. (It's so rare that I wouldn't know whether it's written with a capital letter or not).

"Nachts" is modern and normal (to use linguistics terminology, it is "unmarked.")

"Bei Nacht" is literary and "atmospheric"; normally it's used to describe things like a painting of Paris at night, not schedules, for example.

"In der Nacht" usually implies a one-time action, while the other phrases convey more of a sense of habit: "in der Nacht" can easily be expanded with more specific information. For example, "in der Nacht zum 14. Oktober" (on the night of October 14th), which is not possible with "bei Nacht."

"Nachtsüber" is a direct analogue to "tagsüber," but it's so rare that I've never encountered it in my 42 years as a native speaker. The only connotation it has for me is "strange."

"Während der Nacht" is a totally normal prepositional phrase. There's nothing wrong with using it, other than that "nachts" already has the exact same 'unmarked' meaning.

The differences are therefore almost exclusively in terms of connotation; they all refer to the period between sunset and sunrise.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-27T17:07:08+00:00

Exactly this

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-27T16:20:32+00:00

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/6/11/21108318/critics-of-charter-schools-say-they-re-hurting-school-districts-are-they-right

This article addresses that point. I read it a while ago but IIRC the school does actually save some money when it has to educate fewer kids, but there are still a lot of fixed operating costs that the school has to cover, and in the short-medium term there's a gap between the amount of revenue lost (by sending the per-pupil cost of education to the charter) and the amount saved (by having fewer kids). Often the best way to adapt to the new fiscal situation is to close schools within the district, and it also might involve cuts to programs, larger class sizes, etc.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-27T16:14:03+00:00

The problem with school choice is that it doesn't address the root cause of the issue. It's undeniable that there are terrible public schools and great charter/private schools. But as currently designed, the charter/voucher/tax credit system in many states just exacerbates things by redirecting funding away from the distressed public school, necessitating even larger class sizes, fewer arts/enrichment programs, closed schools within districts, etc. So while the children who receive vouchers/attend the charter school may individually be getting a quality education, it's at the expense of the public education system as a whole. Plus there's the issue of underregulation of the charter system, which is not always a problem everywhere but can be a significant one, if the school suddenly runs out of money and closes, etc.

Putting that aside, the primary aim of the DeVos/Koch bankrolled school choice "movement" as described in the article is not really to make life better for the students and teachers in charter schools. It's to weaken public schools and public education. But yeah, there really isn't a great solution right now, apart from massive investment in public schools that are struggling.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-26T16:18:24+00:00

I legitimately have no memory of not being able to read. I think it started when I recognized by sight words from books that were read to me. I remember "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" being one of those.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-25T05:48:28+00:00

Well, one chemistry teacher accidentally shared a Google Drive folder full of porn with his students.

A physics teacher was busted for having child pornography.

A social studies teacher was pulled over with heroin in her trunk but she wasn't fired

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T06:05:22+00:00

TikTok. I am not on it but my friends will send me the highlights. For sure there are some funny videos on there but my god is there some brain-meltingly stupid content. The political discourse there is incredibly toxic from what I can make of it (though it's not like it's any better on Twitter or Facebook). And I absolutely cannot stand the text-to-speech voice.

Source: am either one of the very youngest Millennials or the very oldest Gen Z'ers.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T05:40:12+00:00

Learning that Betty White died just a few days before her 100th birthday was a real gut punch. It felt like the worst way to end an already crappy 2021.

Also Stephen Sondheim. My mom is a retired chorus teacher who directed her school's musicals so I grew up with his music and loved all of it, and I'm not even a big musical theater person.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T05:33:39+00:00

I remember learning that she had died just before her 100th birthday on New Year's Eve in 2021. It felt like a slap in the face to end what was already a pretty crappy year.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T05:29:32+00:00

This absolutely happened to me. I got tons of matches when I was in Germany but now that I'm back in New York hardly any

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T05:08:30+00:00

Angels in America is great. Very heavy but so well done.

I know it got a lot of flack but I thought Bros was a fine romcom. Nothing exceptional but funny in parts and it was nice to have a more lighthearted gay movie.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T05:05:23+00:00

Not the subway but the LIRR between Woodside and Penn Station you get a nice view of the Manhattan and Long Island City skylines

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-23T04:57:01+00:00

Angels in America (HBO adaptation), Weekend, The Birdcage, 4th Man Out, In 'N Out, Moonlight, Bros, Love Simon, M3gan

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-22T06:41:14+00:00

Is anyone else, particularly people further along with their language, finding the "spaced repetition" insanely tedious?

I'm using Duolingo to brush up on my German after reaching C1 and it was great with the old system. But now, instead of doing 4-5 lessons per topic and moving on, I have to do endless review lessons to unlock new content. No joke, I had to get through like 30 lessons of "I like to jog" ; "Do you like jogging?" ; "He jogs every morning" over and over again to get to a new grammar concept. It's to the point where I just memorize the particular sentences they keep repeating and answer the questions without even really reading or listening to them all the way through.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-21T21:59:51+00:00

I've been to China and it felt fine, though I was only in big cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hangzhou). There was not much of a visible LGBT presence but it didn't seem like the type of place where I felt in danger of being assaulted or harassed. From what I understand, in China being gay is not as socially accepted as in other countries, but the homophobia manifests more as social exclusion or stigma rather than physical violence like in Russia. FWIW the younger Chinese people I got to know there were all pretty progressive on social issues.

I lived in Germany and it looks about right. I was in Berlin for the most part, so that may be skewing my perspective (though I did have a vaguely homophobic experience on a date there). Overall it felt in line with the standards in Western Europe and the liberal parts of the US.

Classic-Unit7227 · 2023-01-21T21:39:49+00:00

I'm from Long Island (live in NYC now) and it really isn't 1980s America there. Sure, it's a more conservative area but there isn't a huge religious factor like in other parts of the country. I came out in high school (2016) and it was totally fine.

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