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And you should have been the one to be credited with its addiction.

One of the problems with bluesky is that it's very difficult for me to see who is replying to what. But I can see a way around this.

It may take a week or two to implement.

a few people have said they’d like a british one, but i can only speak to what i know. feel free to run with the idea and do your country’s! i’d love to see what candies other places have, so all i ask is tag me so i can see

Oh good same
And it doesn’t help that I have two keyboards, one in English a nd one in German and I don’t always switch so German tries to type English and the other way around and it’s a mess
So many words that shouldn’t be there!!

Ha! Yes. I have to go German to English in that one. I can't translate them the other way around. It usually trips me up when a German word has a few different English options (or the English option given is not one I would choose for that German word).

The german The German verb "umfahren" can mean to drive around something, but also to drive over something. To "umfahren" a red traffic light can save time on the one hand, but on the other hand it can be very annoying because a new traffic light will be fucking expensive.

Enjoy our language..

I check which lists I'm on every week or two and I swear, every time I check I'm on yet ANOTHER German list! this is like the 8th one! what did I do to the German people that made them hate me so mu-oh, I (((know)))...sad to see they haven't changed :/

I understand. I'm one of the people who can talk to anyone, but after an hour or so, I'm ready to watch birds and feed squirrels now. Oh, and check Telegram to see what is happening in Ukraine. My mind is there a lot.

Is German tough to learn? I can speak and understand some Russian and a good amount of French but for some reason German is intimidating. Some of the words are just so long haha 😅 I could have taken German in school but I did 4 years of useless Latin instead

What’s funny to me is I speak a few languages: English and French fluently, German and Spanish as second languages, and a bit of Japanese. I never cross over French words into any other language, but I cross German into Spanish or Japanese all the time.

Thanks! I'm on some, but don't seem to be many for #MEcfs... And lots of German content (I speak English and Spanish, would love to learn German but don't have the spoons!). I've found a couple of ME-related feeds, so will see who I can find on those.

what I'm doing now is reverse flashcards - I can see the English definition and I have to write the Ukrainian one from memory. It is BRUTAL and it's going slowly but it's going to be the only way to have a conversation beyond "Де готель?"and "я люблю каву"
This is lingQ again.

i have no data to back this up but german in a german accent is lower pitched than english in a german accent, english in an english accent sits in between the two, and german in an english accent is just unpleasant and should be avoided at all costs (though that is almost certainly how i sound)

Maybe what I should do is see if I can find a conservative or two who would be willing to have a friendly chat over coffee or something and see how the vibe plays out. I can worry about cameras and shit down the road.

Interesting. This is probably what I’ll try first since I have the other two ingredients ready. Let’s see.

fwiw, German accents can definitely be cute. English is a hard language to speak.

At least German is consistent in pronunciation.

Also I can't hear different German accents basically at all. All I know is my BF from the Leipzig area has "correct" German cause it's what I'm most used to.

I have this textbook, the plan is to work through one lesson a day over the next two months and see how I feel from there

one of my plans for 2024 is to try to "properly" learn German - Duolingo is fun and doing my German wordsearch book is fun and watching the odd episode of the Simpsons in German and/or with German subtitles is fun, but ask me to have an actual conversation in German and I'd be stumped 🤷🏻

I mean, she says she is german. English as a second language. That does explain why she would not understand the word and what is implied.

I had never heard of this and googling around all I see is something about the One Joke and that she made a statement about it, but the statement is blocked and invisible everywhere I look.

what happened?

Bluesky is fun because I can run around pretending to be a top or something and no one can stop me

The German verb "umfahren" can mean to drive around something, but also to drive over something. To "umfahren" a red traffic light can save time on the one hand, but on the other hand it can be very annoying because a new traffic light will be fucking expensive.

Enjoy your language..

Let's see... my last outline is a little over 1,000 words and the manuscript is around 40,000 words total.

This one is pushing 2,000 words and isn't even half complete.

I know this is different and I have to establish a time and place and rules for the world? But... um...

Trilogy? 😅 oh no...

Eve Sandwich Pope, birthday month @sandwichpope.com

I am leaving this in the outline so that I can either give a nod of acknowledgement to Eve Sandwich Pope from the past, or say to myself "Oh Eve Sandwich Pope from the past. You silly goose!"

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Dutch is such a funny language bc I always try to figure out what dutch ppl say with the words that are the same in german or at least pretty similar
Like one half is just normal words and the other some stuff I don’t understand lol
But it sometimes works and I see what they want to say

This is tricky. I have a long term patient who is deaf and I do remove my mask for her so she can lip read. She has an interpreter but she likes to be able to see what I am saying