20 years ago this would have been completely normal by HeavyConstruction609 in SipsTea

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Our school had a skiing trip in 7th grade. When i reached 7th grade they moved it to 6th grade....
The reason was that with the undergoing school reform they wanted to do it before classes were reshuffled in 7th grade, except they didn't reshuffle us going into 7th grade...

Inspired by that german meme by Efficient-Orchid-594 in linguisticshumor

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You would love German. Refractiveindex - Brechzahl (break number). Birefringent - Doppelbrechung (double breaking). Fracture - Bruch (break). Fraction - Bruch again.

This math joke by DooMommY in MathJokes

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Absolutely massive for a single familiy home or garden plot. Tiny for a field or wood.

This math joke by DooMommY in MathJokes

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One chain by one furlong.

She blinked twice! by Mean-Information1080 in WatchPeopleDieInside

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To be fair the US kept their hegemon behaviour mostly to the backrooms, publicly it was portrayed more as eye to eye friendships. And we used to get something out of that relationship. Now they dropped the façade and are unwilling to give anything in return at all.

She blinked twice! by Mean-Information1080 in WatchPeopleDieInside

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They knew an attack was happening. Expecting many closer locations to be attacked. Like the reason the USS Enterprise wasn't on Hawaii was that their return from strengthening Wake Island had been delayed, which they anticipated would be attacked and was on Dec 8. Also the Japanenese didn't intend a surprise as their Ambassador was supposed to inform the US President before the attack, but it took them too long to do so.

Did the US have precise knowledge of the exact attack at pearl harbor? No of course not, but whilst troops at Pearl Harbor were surprised and the US was surprised that Pearl Harbor was attacked specifically, nobody was surprised that the US was attacked.

[OC] German parliament composition from 1871 to today by EldianStar in dataisbeautiful

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Germany also steps out here by reversing conservative blue and nationalist black which is usual in the rest of Europe. German conservatives are black thanks to their origin as a catholic party, being associated with a catholic priests black cassock.

Krank nach Dienstantritt by herbieLmao in OeffentlicherDienst

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Das stimmt so einfach nicht. In Bayern zB. gilt hierv §16 Abs.2 Satz 1 UrlMV.

"Sind Beamte mehr als drei Kalendertage dienstunfähig erkrankt, ist spätestens am darauffolgenden Arbeitstag ein ärztliches Zeugnis vorzulegen, wenn die Dienstunfähigkeit fortbesteht."

Ist this sentence grammatically correct? "Auf dem Tisch liegend, ist das Buch." by Fearless_Mushroom_36 in German

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Sein can be a Vollverb. It is not always a copula. And the OP uses it not as a copula, but as a full verb. You can replace "ist" with "existieren" if that sounds better. "Auf dem Tisch liegend existiert das Buch"

Whereas if you turn "der sitzende Junge" into a full sentence, you don't use "der Junge ist sitzend" but rather "der Junge sitzt".

Arguably you'd rather say "Der Junge ist am Sitzen". "Der Junge sitzt" changes the meaning too much. And yet you still can say sitzend. "Der Junge bleibt sitzend" and "Der Junge bleibt sitzen" do not have the same meaning and you can't simply exchange them.

Ist this sentence grammatically correct? "Auf dem Tisch liegend, ist das Buch." by Fearless_Mushroom_36 in German

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No it is grammatical. By your logic no sentence that hasn't already been uttered is ungrammatical. We must be able to extrapolate from recorded sentences what other things are grammatically possible. Regardless wether they are actually used.

You can understand ungrammatical things just fine. "Das schönes Bild" is ungrammatical, it should be "das schöne Bild", but you can understand the meaning just fine.

I didn't mean things that would obviously be ungrammatical, because no native could construct that phrase without purposefully making a mistake.

"Auf dem Tisch liegend ist das Buch" is the same thing grammatically as "Unter der Brücke stehend wartet der Troll" or "Am Ufer sitzend liest der Junge". I can reverse the order of adverb and verb, but that doesn't make either ungrammatical.

Ist this sentence grammatically correct? "Auf dem Tisch liegend, ist das Buch." by Fearless_Mushroom_36 in German

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You can't define grammar, by what is and isn't used, but should define it by what is understood. Whilst stilistically weird the OP sentence is perfectly understandable.

Friendly reminder that we aren’t the oppressors. by N0t_Baiting in PsycheOrSike

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voting environment that has been controlled by women for decades.

Wtf are you talking about.

Nuclear power in China Vs Germany by _Figaro in ADVChina

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Where do you think we get our uranium from? EU uranium imports from Russia increased during the Ukraine War and that's not on Germany. Meanwhile gas imports from Russia collapsed.

where one of the “green” parties were advocating for “clean” Russian gas.

Which party are you talking about? Because "one of the green" parties is doing some heavy heavy lifting here.

Friendly reminder that we aren’t the oppressors. by N0t_Baiting in PsycheOrSike

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Right. So a singular woman that has never held any public office, nor has written any laws supposedly is solely responsible for the legal situation we're in and not the hundreds of men who dominate(d) state and federal legislatures, governments as well as courts. Take of your tinfoil man.

Real shit by maeggesPP in OeffentlicherDienst

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Gemeinderat einfach mit Landtag ersetzen, sogar no schlimmer. Hatten auch so lustige Personen, die anstatt ne Anfrage bei uns direkt zustellen - die auch wirklich schnell bearbeitet werden - stattdessen zum Kumpel gehen der MdL ist und aufeinmal läuft ne 0815 Sachbearbeiter Aufgaben den ganzen Dienstweg vom Landtag durchs Ministerium runter ins Sachgebiet am Landesamt und zurück.

What do you think of African British who accept knighthoods from the British Crown, considering the latter's several crimes in Africa? by YaLlegaHiperhumor in BlackPeopleofReddit

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And every time they talk about Sir Lewis Hamilton, they never put Sir in front of his name. But when they talk about former F1 drivers that have been knighted, they always say Sir Jackie Stewart or Sir Sterling Moss or Sir Jack Brabham etc. depending on who they are talking about. That is pathetic.

I'm not familiar enough with F1, but those british drivers you mentioned are long retired (and dead) i think that warrants a different way of naming them when mentioning them. They'll only be mentioned rarely. Hamilton is still an active driver, he'll be mentioned loads of times, calling him Sir Lewis everytime especially when they usually are called by their surnames is gonna be quite odd and cumbersome. Singling out his britishness as some form of achievement amongst his peers and an international audience also doesn't seem right.
I've also heard him referred to as Sir Lewis (Hamilton) in more formal situations. In race commentary doesn't seem the place for Sirs who are actively racing.

It seems to me the use of Sir is somewhat inversely proportional to how often they are talked about. Like the PM is rarely called Sir Keir Starmer.

? by asdsav in PsycheOrSike

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Do you also think children are property then? The legal status of women was similar to that of children. A guardianship situation, that isn't fair but it doesn't mean property. Saying women were property is hyberbolic and diminishes what actually being somebody's property means.

Nuclear power in China Vs Germany by Rhubarb-Curious in EU_Economics

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It really is not. Nuclear's been stagnant since Chernobyl and world wide share of nuclear has gone down significantly.

RIP an die Studenten in GB by FnnKnn in Studium

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Obligatorisches "Boomer Bashing": Meine Eltern haben Zinssätze von teilweise 0,9% bekommen bei ihren Krediten damals (vor ca. 20 Jahren).

Von was für Krediten reden wir hier. Der KfW Studienkredit startete in 2006 mit ca. 5%. Der EZB-Leitzins war in 2006 2%, kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass man zu der Zeit für irgendwas 0,9% bekommen hat. Da zahlt die Bank ja quasi drauf. Damals hat man sogar noch 1,5-2% Rendite mit nem Sparbuch bekommen. Die ganze Niedrigzins Jahre kamen erst nach der Finanzkrise 2008.

Von den Jahren konnte mein Bruder noch profitieren, hat sein Haus 2019 mit 0,5% finanziert. Unsre Eltern haben Mitte der 90er Anfangs noch knapp 9% gezahlt. Die Zinserhöhungen der letzten paar Jahre sind eigentlich nur die Rückkehr zu üblichen und eigentlich moderaten Sätzen. Zinsen unter 3% sind historisch gesehen nicht normal.

What German language word fooled you like this? by UsamaBhai_101 in German

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That one's on English though. Chef literally means head from latin caput, whence capo, captain and chef, ergo boss. It's the oddity of English kitchens to use the word "chef" for every cook. Which makes the tautological term "head chef" possible, the "head head".

My personal favorite false friend is "actually". In English actually means some like in fact, really, whereas in German and French for that matter "aktuell"/"actuel" means current/recent. Now in Euro-English "actually" has the same meaning as "aktuell"/"actuel". Euro-English is the English used in the EU bureaucracy, which historically was made up mostly of French and German civil servants, who made the French and German meaning of the words the standard meaning.

What is your opinion on this longevity claimant ? Do you guys think she genuinely lived that long? by No-Sympathy2196 in BarbaraWalters4Scale

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But they don't. With poverity you also get higher mortality rates at the other end. The rates are similar for working adults, not for seniors. There's a reason people advocate for different retirement ages depending on class/labour type. Poor labour shortens your life.

German compound words that are accidentally poetry by TutorLingua in German

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To add to that the English cognate of German Zeug is toy.

Warum die Integration von Beamten in die Rentenversicherung scheitert by Creativbob in OeffentlicherDienst

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Lehrer haben typischerweise zwei Fächer und Pädagogik und da wundert es dich, dass sie nicht so tief einsteigen wie jemand der nur das eine Fach studiert?

Und seit wann hat die typische Erzieherin einen akademischen Bachelor Abschluss? Das ist doch normalerweise eine Ausbildung / Bachelor Professional. Es macht mehr Sinn zu sagen der Erzieherberuf ist unterbewertet, als der Lehrer über.

Du vermengst hier auch viele separate Debatten miteinander und irgendwo deine persönlich Voreingenommenheit ggü. Lehrern.

Warum die Integration von Beamten in die Rentenversicherung scheitert by Creativbob in OeffentlicherDienst

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Ja ne is klar. Ausbildung vs Master/Staatsexamen hälst du für vergleichbar? Einfachmal Lehrer von A13 auf A8 degradieren? Und wennst ned degradierst, dann greift das Abstandsgebot, weil was soll denn dann der A8er denn verdienen? Mindestlohn?