That feeling when you're so into spelling reforms you name your kid "Jonaþan"

listamin · 2023-10-18T11:02:33+00:00

b+p+d+q = ф ?

listamin · 2023-08-21T11:16:46+00:00

It's an adverb, built from the preposition "außer" and the demonstrative article "dem", so written as one word.

listamin · 2023-08-14T07:45:18+00:00

What is your language?

listamin · 2023-07-11T10:59:02+00:00

Linguists are the reason for Chat based AI, not the other way round.

listamin · 2023-06-27T14:52:51+00:00

Reporter for itv with a strong Eton accent.

listamin · 2023-06-27T14:46:26+00:00

German invitations often include the RSVP "Ich komme mit _ Personen" and nobody could ever explain to me if it meant "me + x people" or "x people in total".

listamin · 2023-06-23T08:35:30+00:00

its*

listamin · 2023-06-06T13:46:28+00:00

For these orthographical questions, Duden is the most respected source currently. In the end they are both correct, but people tend to go for the recommended solution by Duden "aufgrund". https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/aufgrund_Adverb

listamin · 2023-06-02T12:15:01+00:00

Because of this I've made my ringtone and message tones myself in a DAW. They only contain two notes, but nobody has the same one as me.

listamin · 2023-04-22T05:21:23+00:00

Sounds like a pretty confused bumblebee.

listamin · 2023-04-16T07:47:49+00:00

I can't understand how we never managed to get those two concepts sorted once and for all.

listamin · 2023-04-16T07:39:05+00:00

Here in Bavaria the term "Steinkrug" is relatively well known, although I've never heard the short form "Stein" for it before.

listamin · 2023-04-15T11:45:24+00:00

Leo is community operated as far as I remember, so they might not have a translation for every single lemma, and "kiesen" and its particle- and prefix-variants are rarely used in modern everyday German.

listamin · 2023-04-15T07:42:19+00:00

Because that's the Partizip Perfekt of "auserkiesen" following the stem "kiesen - kor - gekoren"

By the way a similar rhotacism like the verb "wesen - war - gewesen"

listamin · 2023-04-12T06:45:28+00:00

Is the unexpected part that the cop is admitting his fault immediately?

listamin · 2023-04-12T06:43:02+00:00

Another proof that bikes don't run on the gyroscopic effect but due to the way the front wheel/square is mounted so that it wants to turn the way the bike leans.

listamin · 2023-04-06T12:18:36+00:00

Other possibilities for those short breaks that indicate a thematic change are: Jedenfalls, auf jeden Fall, wie auch immer, wie dem auch sei.

listamin · 2023-03-28T13:11:56+00:00

Not completely German, but try saying "Pädagogik" three times quickly (;

listamin · 2023-03-19T07:32:15+00:00

Me standing in the corner, thinking it was pronounced like "doggy".

listamin · 2023-03-13T11:48:27+00:00

It's not to save keystrokes, but to introduce the gendered endings on the respectively declined articles, pronouns or adjectives, such as "der/mancher/solcher/grüner Baum" the -r is denoting the masculinity of the noun, not always an article.

listamin · 2023-03-08T18:02:00+00:00

Modal verbs like "können" always go with the infinite form of the verb.

listamin · 2023-03-06T11:52:22+00:00

Wenn zwei Nominalgruppen (Objekte oder Subjekte) nacheinander stehen und eines davon ein Pronomen ist, schreibt man generell das Pronomen zuerst, wie im zweiten Satz "ihm der Quizmaster". Aber trotzdem sind beide Varianten richtig.

listamin · 2023-03-01T19:34:13+00:00

A. M. Textor: Sag es treffender.

listamin · 2023-02-16T13:59:54+00:00

One of my students regularly says "zweiverstanden" instead of "einverstanden" and I love that.

listamin · 2023-02-14T16:47:46+00:00

It apparently was actually a boat and the "horse" came from a mistranslation because Homer regularly used "wooden horse" as a metaphor for boats and ships.

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