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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 15, 2024 14:39:33 GMT
My boss has just purchased some gleason maps for staff education and training. He also gets all his important news from telegram. I think I work for a nutter. My head almost exploded from all that irony. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 15, 2024 14:40:32 GMT
Telegram the app or telegram the telegraphy message? Not that it matters much re: nuttery... ... the world is run by a secret organisation that control everything. Can you tell him to tell them they're doing a shit job recently? |
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Post by stuz359 on Apr 15, 2024 22:52:07 GMT
My default Samsung weather app is weird. I need to turn off notifications.
What I get is weirdly 50/50 stuff.
'It may stop raining this morning!' Thanks for that.
'Rain possible after 2:45am' Really?!? It may rain after an arbitrary time? Over the course of how long? Forever?
I could make weather forecasts like this. 'Manchester town centre may be torn apart by a tornado, sometime after *mumble mumble*!' It's meaningless.
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Post by JuniorFE on Apr 15, 2024 23:03:59 GMT
My default Samsung weather app is weird. I need to turn off notifications. What I get is weirdly 50/50 stuff. 'It may stop raining this morning!' Thanks for that. 'Rain possible after 2:45am' Really?!? It may rain after an arbitrary time? Over the course of how long? Forever? I could make weather forecasts like this. 'Manchester town centre may be torn apart by a tornado, sometime after *mumble mumble*!' It's meaningless. Schrödinger's Forecast |
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Post by otto on Apr 16, 2024 8:18:17 GMT
... the world is run by a secret organisation that control everything. Can you tell him to tell them they're doing a shit job recently? we know |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 16, 2024 8:35:47 GMT
Can you tell him to tell them they're doing a shit job recently? we know Get your arse in gear otto! |
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 17, 2024 10:32:59 GMT
Today I learnt that the German for "contraceptive pill" is "antibabypille"
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Post by otto on Apr 17, 2024 10:36:01 GMT
Listen we tell it like it is.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 17, 2024 10:53:33 GMT
I like how the German language uses compound words. So many things are just "something-stuff".
Tools, work stuff. Toys, play stuff. Stationary, write stuff. Lighters, fire stuff. Drum kit, hit stuff. Airplane, flight stuff.
I appreciate the honesty.
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Post by askew on Apr 17, 2024 11:33:19 GMT
Oh, the Dutch have that too. What’s the term for it - begins with an ‘a’?
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Post by cubby on Apr 17, 2024 12:08:20 GMT
Attachwordstogether
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Post by LegendaryApe on Apr 17, 2024 17:30:15 GMT
I like how the German language uses compound words. So many things are just "something-stuff". Tools, work stuff. Toys, play stuff. Stationary, write stuff. Lighters, fire stuff. Drum kit, hit stuff. Airplane, flight stuff. I appreciate the honesty. What's 'No bum stuff'. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 17, 2024 17:47:09 GMT
at a guess I'd say keinehinternzeug
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Post by dfunked on Apr 17, 2024 17:47:50 GMT
Bless you
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Post by cubby on Apr 17, 2024 17:48:39 GMT
Nichteassholepokincht
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Post by robthehermit on Apr 17, 2024 17:59:08 GMT
Actually its "kein Po-Zeug"
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 17, 2024 18:59:01 GMT
I think both hintern and po translate as butt. There's also arsch.
I find the whole gendered words like kein and keine and die and der and das quite annoying though. I know it's not just German but why the fuck we need to have masculine and feminine versions of "the", which are arbitarily assigned to different things is really infuriating and where most of my Duolingo mistakes come from.
Not that I'm bitter about it.
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Post by askew on Apr 17, 2024 21:08:32 GMT
Agglutinative languages! And the Dutch example was arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering which means disability insurance. |
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Post by hicksy on Apr 18, 2024 5:23:46 GMT
What’s German for “get your gear out of your arse?”
/cough
Nothing to declare!
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Post by Fake_Blood on Apr 18, 2024 7:39:16 GMT
I think both hintern and po translate as butt. There's also arsch. I find the whole gendered words like kein and keine and die and der and das quite annoying though. I know it's not just German but why the fuck we need to have masculine and feminine versions of "the", which are arbitarily assigned to different things is really infuriating and where most of my Duolingo mistakes come from. Not that I'm bitter about it. Ah yes, the “you just have to know” part of learning a language. French also has this with le and la, but now I’m wondering if the other romance languages do this? English is pretty woke then with being gender neutral. |
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 18, 2024 9:23:26 GMT
But then with English you just have to know all phrasal verbs and their different contexts and understand that "ough" can be pronounced as "off" or "awt" or "oh" depending on what consonants are connected. English is an absolute shit show of a language to learn. Don't even get me started on American English.
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Post by dfunked on Apr 18, 2024 10:13:36 GMT
My pawn in Dragon's Dogma 2 said aught in one sentence (they say it a lot!), then soon after said ought.
Which got me thinking that it's a fucking daft language at times, even if the former is rarely used outside of this game and Shakespeare.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 18, 2024 10:19:06 GMT
My wife is the only person I know who uses 'mightn't' rather than the full 'might not' and I find it really jarring for some reason.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 18, 2024 10:19:32 GMT
Not played the new game yet but I recall the first Dragon's Dogma using aught *a lot* and often not correctly. Just slapped into sentences arbitrarily to make it seem old timey.
Final Fantasy XIV uses it a fair bit too, but seems to be used mostly correctly.
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Post by askew on Apr 18, 2024 10:19:49 GMT
Northern?
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 18, 2024 10:21:40 GMT
No, West Country (if that was at me)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2024 12:30:38 GMT
Used to work with a guy that used mayhap instead of maybe. And would say "Mayhap, Mayhap not" if you asked him something.
I wanted to jam a pen in his eye.
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Post by Danno on Apr 18, 2024 12:30:54 GMT
Man I love Twiglets. Twiglets are great.
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Post by cubby on Apr 18, 2024 12:35:24 GMT
Mayhap some like twiglets, mayhap some hate twiglets.
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Post by JuniorFE on Apr 18, 2024 12:35:47 GMT
But then with English you just have to know all phrasal verbs and their different contexts and understand that "ough" can be pronounced as "off" or "awt" or "oh" depending on what consonants are connected. English is an absolute shit show of a language to learn. Don't even get me started on American English. We'll begin with box; the plural is boxes; But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes, One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose is never called meese. You can find a lone mouse or a house full of mice; But the plural of house is houses not hice. The plural of man is always men. But the plural of pan is never pen. If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet, And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't two booths be called beeth? If the singular's this and the plural is these, Should the plural of kiss be ever called keese? We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren. When the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him; Just imagine the feminine....she, shis, and shim! |
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