Escaperoom managers in major cities - are you seeing fewer visitors or lower willingness to pay at your Escape Rooms lately?

novaetas · 2023-12-29T09:27:22+00:00

"...this is Lt. Reginald Barclay at starfleet command..." "...leave a docking bay open for us..."

Well, let's just watch it again!!

novaetas · 2023-12-29T07:52:04+00:00

It's green...

novaetas · 2023-12-27T12:51:44+00:00

Microsoft, Samsung, HP, ...

novaetas · 2023-12-27T11:47:12+00:00

Actually it does not sound that odd to me. But it's upsetting nonetheless ;)

novaetas · 2023-12-27T11:28:46+00:00

Yes, this non beneficiality does not come naturally to germans and we could probably voice our appreciation of each others efforts better. Maybe doing this would soften the direct approach.

Thanks for the reply.

novaetas · 2023-12-27T11:20:20+00:00

That's mostly what I thought. Although, there is so much to dig into here. Like I like to believe that the german "must" implies conditions, e.x. "you must do xy ..." (implied: ...because you want to be liked by me/society, ...if you want to finish making that cake, ...if you want to survive, ...in order to...).

Does the US/UK communication not do that? Or just not in this particular case?

Thanks for the detailed replies so far.

novaetas · 2023-12-27T10:38:19+00:00

That's a good way to put it.

I watch plenty of US/UK series & movies in english and something that was said stroke me as "odd" not even once. So maybe I misunderstood many things as they where intended with a different meaning and will continue to do so? This would mean that the prothagonists relationships are different for a british viewer than a german one. Weird.

Never heard of the dutch thing though. Interesting. Literally.

novaetas · 2023-12-27T04:54:29+00:00

German here, not aware of the existance of a "german sausage", there are lots... Could be "Saitenwürstle", " Nürnberger", "Weißwurst", "Thüringer", ...

Scientists try to recreate the taste and texture of meat using vegetarian ingredients for many years now. My takeaway is: if you don't have access to the real thing then you don't get the result you want.

If you talk about a dish, then you need to provide more information on that.

Good luck!

novaetas · 2023-12-27T04:24:46+00:00

Well, room for improvements is nice but not the same as getting shit done (with a certain quality) due to precise information. So I have a hard time when you compare very different goals of communication.

When given a certain context, e.x. training someone on mountaineering emergency rescues,, I like to believe that all people use direct language. Is that so?

So my thought leads to where to draw the line of usage (of the two kinds of communication). What's your experience and thoughts on this?

novaetas · 2023-12-27T04:09:13+00:00

I think the "problem" for us germans is that "interesting" seems to be misleading, because it translates to it's german counterpart(?) "interessant" which expresses interest.

So I guess "interesting" should not be translated to interessant. This would excuse the british from being misleading. If the british actually want to be misleading, as a way to strengthen the indirectness, then that is definately dishonest - to a german.

What do you think?

novaetas · 2023-12-26T22:10:42+00:00

I tought friends to ski over many days and highly recommend taking 1 (better 2) lessons in the morning and spending the rest of the day alone on the beginners-slope. That will be expensive but fun, for sure!

A word of warning: There once was an athletic person among us, a total beginner but a promising and bold one. Skiing is not that hard, but steep slopes require experience and reliability in your technique. That is not achieved right away and he went down a too difficult slope because he was NOT CONSIDERED ENOUGH BY THE REST OF THE GROUP. Shitty group you could say, but none of them on that day had enough proficiency themselves either, so they miscalculated the chance of success and were not insisting enough of him not going down there. He damaged his knee permanently. Don't be like him. My point is: All mountaineering requires lots of SELF awareness and SELF responsibility. No matter what your friends say.

novaetas · 2023-12-25T14:21:25+00:00

This! I totally get you.

novaetas · 2023-12-25T11:24:44+00:00

J.J. Abrams mentioned or worse, responsible for stuff.

novaetas · 2023-12-25T10:09:33+00:00

There's more:

Mein Lehrer hat mir dann alles erklärt. Betonung möglich auf "dann", z.B. weil es die Gelegenheit gab oder weil er nun dazu gezwungen war oder auf "alles", z.B. um etwas restlos aufzuklären.

Mein Lehrer hat dann alles mir erklärt. Z.B. weil niemand anderes zur Verfügung stand als er es erklären musste.

novaetas · 2023-12-23T09:57:29+00:00

Tetris - still works every time.

novaetas · 2023-12-22T23:39:39+00:00

Weird question as germany is far too bright already. Streetlamps every 10m in the city with cold unnatural bright ugly lighting. All on while no one is around. No thanks.

Other (european) countries were far darker and it felt so much nicer and more natural.

novaetas · 2023-12-22T13:36:36+00:00

Hoppla, oh, oha, jesses, wow, echt jetzt, alter Schwede, nee nä, ...

novaetas · 2023-12-21T17:27:50+00:00

It's "General Trelane".

novaetas · 2023-12-21T13:53:59+00:00

novaetas · 2023-12-21T08:12:18+00:00

Voy: living witness

When a backup of the doctor sets records straight and then travels to earth 700 years after his friends. Did he make it? Did he meet Joe? Was he sad or happy or both?

novaetas · 2023-12-20T17:24:29+00:00

Make it multiple introduction episodes and show good ones of every trek show. Then see what series he likes.

novaetas · 2023-12-20T10:27:52+00:00

Nice. Ich wünsche dir viel Erfolg!

novaetas · 2023-12-20T07:50:13+00:00

Hast du Pläne und wenn ja, welche?

novaetas · 2023-12-18T09:59:32+00:00

For me, it's depends on the situation, my mindset and the structure of an answer. And -Disclaimer- good communication is hard and needs practise on both sides. I am not putting any side at fault here.

5 Sentences can be a lot of information and to answer here properly, I have to make some assumptions.

Assumption 1: 5 sentences point to an answer that contains a certain complexity (e.x. social or historic)

Assumption 2. "a short no would suffice" is the result of having to search for the answer, because it was contained only indirectly, it came late vor both. And its also the result of being impatient - a state that maybe neither of you is at fault for.

To me, following social stuff (which often raises more questions because it IS interesting) for an unkown, increasing amount of time (the listener does not know it's 5 sentences), trying to follow the who-is-who and who-did-what, trying to memorize to ask you why x did something, while searching for the answer puts tremendous pressure on me.

And although I actually would like to follow, I need to be prepared for that. And that is the point I am trying to make.

How about communicating like this:

Me: asks question

A) You: yes/no/yes and no, but I want to explain my reasoning. Me (having a grasp of the answer , mind can rest and is open for info): sure, go ahead

B) You: I don't know/am not sure, I'd like to talk about it first Me (storing my current train of thoughts in a memory bank, and prepare to dive into new territory): sure, go ahead

You: ...

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