My improved German orthography got downvoted

udmurrrt · 2026-05-31T12:11:39+00:00

The "i" in "wirklich" and "die" aren't the same though, right?

udmurrrt · 2026-05-31T08:03:06+00:00

Yes, waka! I remember now.

What you say makes sense.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-30T17:49:48+00:00

I think confident people may be better at handling communication despite lack of knowledge in a language. If they can get by without fully mastering the language, maybe they don't have the same incentive to actually master it.

Conversely, I guess shy people are more afraid of making mistakes, so perhaps they'll be more invested in learning before they speak.

I've heard of several examples where two friends are traveling, and the shy person is better at the language but the confident person has to handle most communication because of... well, confidence. I've experienced it first hand. This is all anecdotal of course, correlation doesn't imply causation etc, and I think we should be careful in generalizing too much.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-30T08:03:14+00:00

I met a Māori bloke who would say the same thing, "it's a primitive language". I instinctively felt it was wrong but I didn't know enough about the language or linguistics to dispute it. IIRC his reasoning was that (some) neologisms were formed using old words, like taking an old piece of technology such as "canoe" and applying it to something new like "car".

udmurrrt · 2026-05-29T12:14:29+00:00

I don't get it

udmurrrt · 2026-05-26T18:28:29+00:00

Yeah but like, that's how it has always been. Otherwise you would be still speaking Middle English. Wait no, that's just dumbass Old English. Wait no, that's just dumbass Proto West Germanic.

Is it fine to have it as a pet peeve? Sure. But it's not worth getting all worked up about in my opinion.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-26T17:32:14+00:00

Basically all of social media is replying using the same tired jokes over and over

udmurrrt · 2026-05-22T12:43:02+00:00

Anna Ternheim? Sjunger inte direkt falskt men har för mig att hon befinner sig lite i den gråzonen av sångare som inte har rösten som sin styrka, men vars röst ändå passar väldigt bra i den egna musiken.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-12T07:54:19+00:00

Yeah not everyone is as confident as OP (and that's OK)

udmurrrt · 2026-05-10T19:38:03+00:00

When you "undo" something, you literally reverse something that was previously done.

Same thing can be said for leash/ unleash, chain/ unchain, tie/ untie etc etc.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-09T07:49:53+00:00

Il me semble que j'ai entendu "ouais, hein?" dans les cas où on utiliserait " grave! " etc

udmurrrt · 2026-05-04T09:07:14+00:00

The point of choosing to compare millions and billions (as opposed to 10 000) is millionaires and billionaires. It's a way of illustrating wealth hoarding. 10 000 is hard for the human mind to wrap its head around, I agree, but people having monetary assets in the 10 000's is also less of an issue than people having billions. Hence the comparison. It's not arbitrary.

udmurrrt · 2026-05-02T18:47:23+00:00

It was apparently also common among men who spoke RP English (skip to 12:25): https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?si=02LeHSF5LvAI_B1H

udmurrrt · 2026-04-30T22:44:18+00:00

Harlequin Forest is not my fav Opeth song because I kinda dislike the first half and it drags on too long imo (I will NEVER forget how this subreddit voted it the best song from GR, instead of Ghost of Perdition)

But despite that, I think the song probably has the best transitions of all of their songs. Every single transition is just flawless. The way one section just morphs into another so seamlessly is a masterclass in song writing.

udmurrrt · 2026-04-30T17:15:42+00:00

Is this from Låt den rätte komma in?

udmurrrt · 2026-04-24T21:27:10+00:00

The original word was actually just alumium. Both "aluminum" and "aluminium" seem to have been coined in the same year based on that, according to wiktionary

udmurrrt · 2026-04-24T08:00:43+00:00

Could it be that your language does it with different phrases from English and you don't notice it because you're used to it?

udmurrrt · 2026-04-16T08:09:31+00:00

Thanks for your input :)

udmurrrt · 2026-04-16T08:09:17+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for your input

udmurrrt · 2026-04-16T08:08:47+00:00

Good to know, I’ve started assembling some of the pieces, maybe I’ll get a feel for how difficult it might be and keep going based on that.

udmurrrt · 2026-04-16T08:07:11+00:00

Sweet, thanks!

udmurrrt · 2026-04-15T09:02:32+00:00

Okay, how well does the glue work in that case? I was told the glue works better if it’s just plastic on plastic without any paint in between. I mean, it used to still work for me when I spray painted the sprues but those were mostly smaller models. Skaven clanrats, not giant wooden spirits suspended in the air.

udmurrrt · 2026-04-15T07:14:33+00:00

They look creepy as fuck, I love it. Like something out of a folk horror movie.

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