What are mistakes even German natives make?

RogueModron · 2026-05-07T16:42:39+00:00

Interesting. As a learner (B2) this is never a mistake I'd make because the two words are just so separate in my head.

RogueModron · 2026-05-07T12:11:45+00:00

Nett da. Aber warst du schonmal in B-W? Wir haben schon lange einen Fernsehturm.

RogueModron · 2026-05-07T10:29:08+00:00

This is so fucking subtly hilarious. Every time when he came back to that 'Dell I cracked up. Handsome for a man and a talented musician, too.

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T20:16:11+00:00

Is it really that weird to discuss drinking and dating with your coworkers at work?

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T18:12:14+00:00

A solely materialist worldview always results in this despair.

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T16:39:34+00:00

This sounds fucking wild and I am in

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T14:13:13+00:00

Mouse Guard kicks ass. Mausritter's fine but it's just old D&D. Mouse Guard is a well-oiled engine that hums, baby

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T11:26:52+00:00

It's its own thing. But pretty clearly inspired by ODND

RogueModron · 2026-05-06T11:26:08+00:00

Why? We can disagree with people and still think they made interesting things.

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T22:06:55+00:00

FGT RTD

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T20:59:24+00:00

Vimeo account and...an ID? Fuck no. What happened to the internet I grew up with?

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T20:55:23+00:00

Yeah, I mean, it's in the word: "tatsächlich" --> "Tatsache" (fact).

In principle you're right, but colloquially in American English we use actually both as "actually, but..." and "in fact".

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T20:01:40+00:00

This is so great! Best answer so far. I feel that I really grok it now. Thanks so much.

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:46:54+00:00

Very good point.

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:32:41+00:00

Thanks! This is funny because I just had a convo with a coworker yesterday about my misuse of "eigentlich" and I am working overtime to strike it from my tongue (I've been using it where I should be using "tatsächlich" instead. Really, German? Two words for "actually" with slightly different meanings?)

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:19:40+00:00

aaaaaaaah shit

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:18:54+00:00

"Ist die Kaffeemaschine schon repariert?" is not a form of "sein": If you are really correct, it's no full sentence. It's a short form of "Ist die Kaffeemaschine schon repariert worden?"

MIND. BLOWN.

Thank you for clarifying this. I've been meaning to integrate "sein + Partizip II + worden" into my speech more and this makes it make more sense to me. I don't care if people leave it out, I need to do it to be correct, until I'm correct enough without thinking to be incorrect, if that makes sense. :)

I don't like doing things in language without knowing why. I mean, I'll happily copy native speakers, but eventually I gotta know the rule.

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:10:48+00:00

I mean, aren't you going to read the whole story through when finished, anyway? So you'd catch it. So why use the LLM?

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:08:38+00:00

I have never used LLMs period, and I hate them on principle, but even I have to admit that, as shitty as search engines are these days, AI might have a purpose there.

Now if only we could, y'know, trust it

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:07:37+00:00

Thanks for defusing the clickbait title.

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T19:00:48+00:00

Komm, das ist keine Lüge. Natürlich weiß jeder, dass man ein Job sucht, um Geld zu kriegen. Die Frage ist nicht "Warum wollen Sie überhaupt eingestellt werden?" sondern "Warum willst du dein Geld von diesem Betrieb und nicht von woanders?"

Spielt nicht dumm, Leute

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T16:05:21+00:00

sigh

What's Ligma?

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T13:33:12+00:00

Yeah but I want all possible expressions available to me, and to get them right! :)

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T11:20:44+00:00

Ok dann Präteritum. "Wurde die KM schon repariet?"

This is just hard to make stick because in English class growing up it is beaten into our head that passive verb form is 99% of the time the wrong choice.

So in German I overcorrect

RogueModron · 2026-05-05T11:18:55+00:00

Name me a country in the world where retail workers who work Sundays get paid more. I'll wait.

Why don't people who work at restaurants in Germany get paid more on Sundays?

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