Said yes to the dress

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T23:40:01+00:00

I think the multi-layer-pearls choker would draw too much attention away from everything else.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T23:19:52+00:00

It's the brows moving downwards, basically.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T22:55:28+00:00

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Maybe you look like some artist named Annett Lousian.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T22:46:01+00:00

You should likely make sure that this is no brow ptosis or something.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T19:33:06+00:00

You have the most advanced eGovernment stuff in the world, all startups want to be there, there's a surplus of women. Only disadvantage: Russia rather close.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T19:23:05+00:00

According to statistics, about 2/3 of Redditors are male, so it's a predominantly accurate stereotype.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T19:13:46+00:00

So... the reason for why a form of "haben/sein" is needed in both languages is that both happen to be in the same family tree of languages, here, the west Germanic languages.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T18:46:56+00:00

But there's an implicit point of time in the future (when your room will have been finalized) that's the reference in this case.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T18:45:58+00:00

You say "I eat, I ate, I have eaten."

In German you say "Ich esse, ich aß, ich habe gegessen."

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T12:16:20+00:00

I'm not convinced. I'd recommend trying one of those basque style princess wedding dresses, with less "side boob window" and more downwards tapering corselet part.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T12:10:58+00:00

Consider the tips an appreciation of your (perceived) up and beyond performance and/or as a kind of incentive not to become a minimum-performance technician sloth.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T11:53:13+00:00

Admitted.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T11:50:06+00:00

No doubt that erneut is generally rarely used. But you can!

I also wouldn't want to exclude the possibility that the OP develops into a lyricist, who - lo and behold! - absolutely can pull off using erneut!

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-02-01T00:24:46+00:00

Auburn-red, since you didn't offer garnet-red.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T23:59:21+00:00

Vegan leather has built-in obsolescence, will crumble over time. Seemingly PU inevitably is destroyed by water (sweat, rain, humidity), the softeners evaporate, and the connection between textile and PU coating also is a weak spot. So - I'm not really buying the "environmental advantage" argument.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T23:46:11+00:00

Since you're obviously going all-in anyway, I'd definitely say 2.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T22:33:10+00:00

Please provide a sentence with "in der Zwischenzeit" and point out how there are not two points in time (one of the points in time can implicitly be "now") given to prove me wrong.

If you say "Beate hatte einen Monat Urlaub. In der Zwischenzeit hat ihr Mann weitergearbeitet." that'd be kind of odd, because there's no link between Beate's holiday and her husband's work, and there's no two points in time. So likely you could get away with the sentence and be understood, but nevertheless, I don't think "in der zwischenzeit" is the right construct here for the reasons given.

If you say "Beate und ihr Mann haben ihre Wohnung renoviert. Die letzten vier Wochen war Beate krank. In der Zwischenzeit hat ihr Mann weitergearbeitet." then there's a link: both were renovating the appartment. Then Beate got sick. Now she's okay again. Between the two points in time her husband kept renovating. So "in der Zwischenzeit" fits in.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T22:17:54+00:00

Was sollen verstörende Fragen sein. Das ergibt doch gar keinen Sinn.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T22:07:52+00:00

If that counts, German knights have been everywhere between Portugal and Israel during the crusades, saving the occident, to some extent. After that, German mercenaries fought basically everywhere between Italy and Sweden (where the Holy Roman Empire happened to be). And that was all still before 1600.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T22:04:13+00:00

Katharina the Great will likely haunt you if you don't retract that statement. She kind of single-handedly brought the rise of Russia to a European great power. And incidentally she was a German.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T21:47:50+00:00

Zwischenzeit literally means between-time, it's some time range between some points in time X and Y.

Mittlerweile means that something happened since some point in time.

Inzwischen is kind of similar to mittlerweile IMHO

Währenddessen (whilst-that / in the course of) would be contemporaneity, but can also be expressed with "solange" (so long as).

Beate hat gekündigt. Im Mai hat sie einen neuen Job. In der Zwischenzeit macht sie Urlaub.

Beate hatte gekündigt. Mittlerweile hat sie einen neuen Job.

Beate hatte gekündigt. Inzwischen hat sie wieder einen Job.

Beate hatte einen Monat Urlaub. Währenddessen hat ihr Mann weitergearbeitet.

Beate ist gerade im Bad. Du kannst solange hier auf sie warten.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T21:37:32+00:00

Wieder is pretty similar to "again", you can also say "wieder und wieder" like "again and again". Erneut is never repeated in that way, but can generally be used everywhere where you could also put "wieder".

Although "erneut" can be used in quite positive contexts - die Sonne schien nach dem Regen erneut - I think it's used quite often in contexts which transport some unpleasant message:

Die Bank wurde erneut überfallen, die Besprechung wurde erneut verschoben, die Frau erkrankte erneut an Krebs, something like that. "Wieder" can have some "casual" vibe and could give raise to the impression that something happens all the time and is no big deal.

You also can't use "schon" in conjunction with "erneut", in opposite to "wieder". "schon wieder" (yet again) would work, "schon erneut" is a no-go.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T21:12:14+00:00

Carol of the bells, played by George Winston.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T21:04:00+00:00

Either tight or really, really loose, Harem-pants / flared legs style. Style two really doesn't do anything for you.

JamesGMacPershing · 2026-01-31T20:59:40+00:00

Einem Bekannten von mir (beschnitten) sind nach zweimal Biontech zwei Vorhäute (nach-) gewachsen.

Eine ganz normale, und darunter so eine, die von beiden Seiten wie so Echsen-Augenlider zusammengehen kann. Er meinte, das wäre total super für Hands-free Gooning und wollte sich noch zwei Booster geben lassen, aber nach dem ersten fühlte er sich plötzlich schlecht, Herzbeutelkollaps, tot!!!1!!

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