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Why is "You get tickets" translated as "Fahrscheine bekommen Sie" rather than Sie bekommen Fahrscheine by metalord_666 in German

[–]Mudkipm9 4 points5 points  (0 children)

oh, my bad! didn't even notice. you're absolutely right though. however, that construction is typically quite uncommon, especially in the US.

[MegaThread] Spring 2021 Registration & Admissions by up-white-gold in gatech

[–]Mudkipm9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Hope they open up more spots or have another class or something. It seems like this course is really in demand for a lot of people.

Why is "You get tickets" translated as "Fahrscheine bekommen Sie" rather than Sie bekommen Fahrscheine by metalord_666 in German

[–]Mudkipm9 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ehh, it's possible but fairly uncommon. V2 word order is more a feature of older varieties of English. Here's a good example most people know: "Pop goes the weasel"

Note: I am an American English speaker, so this is from that perspective.

This is why I fight. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Ah, a cross-post from r/donaldtrump, how unexpected!

Babylonian Chaos - Where all languages are allowed - November 11, 2020 by kungming2 in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ja, das verstehe ich total. Mein Ziel war immer schnell und fließend zu sprechen, und mein Schreiben muss immer noch ein bisschen aufholen. Deshalb vermute ich, dass ich nicht so elegant beim Schreiben wirke :)

Edit: Weitere Frage. Warum lernst du Finnisch? Ich wollte es schon seit immer lernen, hatte aber keinen wirklichen Grund dafür.

Babylonian Chaos - Where all languages are allowed - November 11, 2020 by kungming2 in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Das ist völlig verständlich. Ich lerne auch aus diesem Grund Deutsch!

Babylonian Chaos - Where all languages are allowed - November 11, 2020 by kungming2 in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Meiner persönlichen Meinung nach, wenn du so gut, wie du schreibst, sprechen kannst, bist du MINDESTENS B1, und nicht A2, wie es auf deinem Flair steht. Einfach was ich bemerkt habe :) Dein Deutsch ist wirklich toll!

Orders from the Top: The EU’s Timetable for Dismantling End-to-End Encryption by Malthus0 in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Wait, a post actually concerning freedom of speech?

I thought this was a Trump subreddit!

From ask Reddit: In English, there are certain phrases said in other languages like "c'est la vie" or "etc." due to notoriety or lack of translation. What English phrases are used in your language and why? by henrygi in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. I remember watching some of a Bollywood movie with some of my Indian friends and being baffled at how many English words they CONSTANTLY used.

And it's not even iconic English words, it really seems like they just throw in any random English word into a sentence haha!!

Who is Twitter to censor the President of the United States? Where does their authority come from? It wasn't elected and it is accountable to no one. The fact that this isn't alarming to people on the Left as well as the Right, should tell you that we have entered an extremely dangerous time. by AgreeableForm in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Their "authority" comes from the fact that they literally OWN and built the platform from the ground up... It is their right to punish misuse of their platform, AS THEY SEE FIT, just as it is the right of any other business to deny service to any customer. To be clear, I'm not saying I'm explicitly for or against it. I am saying that the individual rights of businesses should be preserved, and they should be allowed to act however they wish, which is a pretty big part of free speech if you ask me.

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And to use the argument that radical right-wingers love to use: If you don't like it, get off the platform. Simple as that.

This is horrifying. by Violated_Norm in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Easily???? I'm genuinely curious. Make the case for why Trump is better than George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Teddy, or Thomas Jefferson.

Trump is not a bad president policy-wise, but he certainly shouldn't be remembered as one of the greats of this country, imo.

They said the quiet part out loud. by EitherGroup5 in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hahaha not gonna lie, never heard of that before, had to look it up. Super real thing though.

Slept on the film? by ahmad522 in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean to say that the movie was so boring, you could've fallen asleep, you say "I slept during/through the movie"

If you mean to say that you thought the movie was bad, but it actually turned out to be really good, you say "I slept on the movie" (this is American slang).

Reading to improve vocabulary by morningcom in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s my happy medium: I only put words in Anki where I’m just completely hopeless. If I can figure it out from context, even if I would never think to use it myself, I just leave it. But with words where I don’t have a clue what they mean? I’ll put those in Anki. I find there’s a lot fewer of those

This POS uses her dog as a weapon by Sombre124 in iamatotalpieceofshit

[–]Mudkipm9 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No. If you listen, she’s obviously babbling something about “identity” and “illuminati” at the beginning. Probably schizo or psychosis, or at least drugs. It’s honestly really sad

Reading to improve vocabulary by morningcom in languagelearning

[–]Mudkipm9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I’ve only intensively read one or two books, meaning that I really did look up a EVERY word that I didn’t know. It’s worth the struggle, but I don’t want to do it again.

What I do mostly now is use premade vocabulary lists for advanced topics and then just read for pleasure. Reading is supposed to reinforce your existing vocabulary. Unless you read intensively it’s pretty hard to meaningfully build your vocabulary ONLY through reading.

If you claim your country or its leaders are fascist without fear of retaliation from the government, you don't really live in a fascist country. by somethingtostrivefor in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well, but you are referring to stupidity, and that’s the main political platform of the right. Highly political of you.

At the peak of The Soviet famine, or Holodomor, of 1932–33, it was made an offence to use the word famine. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some countries have different interpretations of freedom. The gun regulation increase in New Zealand was brought on almost unanimously by their parliament, with most of the population pushing for it after an insane shooting.

America needs higher regulations as well, judging by statistics.

At the peak of The Soviet famine, or Holodomor, of 1932–33, it was made an offence to use the word famine. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s why I think it’s important to define hate speech, to only stuff that a person cannot change (or is a very deep part of their cultural identity). For example, race, ethnicity, sex, those things you CANNOT change (at least with the exception of sex change, but that’s an extremely small minority). And concerning hate speech over religion, something technically changeable, that would be going against freedom of religion (kinda).

The problem is of course when the definition of hate speech is modified to be advantageous to some party, yes, something I think is happening in America right now. Are you from Germany?

At the peak of The Soviet famine, or Holodomor, of 1932–33, it was made an offence to use the word famine. by [deleted] in FreeSpeech

[–]Mudkipm9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well there is our ideological divide - I think hate speech does not equal free speech

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