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Not for the first time, this company has got the best marketing team for their TV commercials. The brief must have been "remind middle-aged Germans about their childhood".
The cinematography is insanely good.
#advertising #marketing #tv #photography #McDonalds #Germany #German #camera
Not for the first time, this company has got the best marketing team for their TV commercials. The brief must have been "remind middle-aged Germans about their childhood".
The cinematography is insanely good.
#advertising #marketing #tv #photography #McDonalds #Germany #German #camera
🇩🇪 #German state #government: ditches (foreign) Big Tech solutions in favour of independently run #OpenSource solutions to enhance #DigitalSovereignty
🇮🇳 #Indian national government: ditches independently run #selfhosted email setup in favour of (local) #proprietary #BigTech solutions, while claiming that open source is "insecure"
We are not the same 😭
🇩🇪 #German state #government: ditches (foreign) Big Tech solutions in favour of independently run #OpenSource solutions to enhance #DigitalSovereignty
🇮🇳 #Indian national government: ditches independently run #selfhosted email setup in favour of (local) #proprietary #BigTech solutions, while claiming that open source is "insecure"
We are not the same 😭
Hey, anyone learning German: I just came across a lyric video of a song that might help getting used to ch having 2 different pronunciations - e.g. this song's chorus includes "ich brauch dich", with the 3 "ch"s being, in order, /ç/, /x/, /ç/
Hey, anyone learning German: I just came across a lyric video of a song that might help getting used to ch having 2 different pronunciations - e.g. this song's chorus includes "ich brauch dich", with the 3 "ch"s being, in order, /ç/, /x/, /ç/
Hallo!
Hello!
Привет!
toki a!
I'm new here on Conlang Network. :)
I've been part of the conlanging hobby since I was a young teenager, but I've not worked on anything conlang-related in quite a while.
I've pursued #linguistics in university because of my #conlanging hobby; and I'm a professional in the translation/localisation industry, specialising in video games and other media.
I speak #German and #English natively ( #bilingual) and have been learning a bit of #Russian on the side. I am fluent in #tokipona, which I've been learning for over seven years now.
Deutsche Bahn (DB), a state-owned company under control of the gov of #Germany, is telling me when i try to buy a ticket or to log in (!) that "Your browser's behavior resembles that of a bot."
Suggestion is:
- change browser (!)
- change network (!!!)
or
"If you are using a VPN client, anonymization tool, [iOS stuff], or third-party antivirus software, please temporarily disable it."
#German gov. suggests giving up on privacy protection?
-> DPA complaint?
Last night, right before going to bed:
Me, to spouse, who knows some basic German and who also took linguistics classes in college: So, German is a compound-happy language, and also has grammatical gender. What is the gender of a compound noun made up of nouns that have different genders?
He didn’t know, so we had a speculative and silly conversation about it that I mostly don’t recall, and then I tried looking it up. Apparently the compound noun gets its gender from the noun closest to the end of the word. (Germans, please feel free to correct me, as my research was brief and shallow.)
After more silliness, I remarked that I was feeling punchy, then stopped and speculated that punchy is derived from punch-drunk (answer: yes, which is sobering), after which spouse remarked that individual body parts can be described as being asleep in English, but what other things can they be? (I’ll put some things I thought were interesting about this in the next post in this thread.)
More silliness ensued, and then I said:
Where do compound words come from? Well, when two morphemes love each other very much…
(A linguistics professor from my college said that English is almost as compound-happy as German, which isn’t surprising as it’s also a Germanic language. We mostly don’t recognize it and don’t spell most of them that way.)
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Last night, right before going to bed:
Me, to spouse, who knows some basic German and who also took linguistics classes in college: So, German is a compound-happy language, and also has grammatical gender. What is the gender of a compound noun made up of nouns that have different genders?
He didn’t know, so we had a speculative and silly conversation about it that I mostly don’t recall, and then I tried looking it up. Apparently the compound noun gets its gender from the noun closest to the end of the word. (Germans, please feel free to correct me, as my research was brief and shallow.)
After more silliness, I remarked that I was feeling punchy, then stopped and speculated that punchy is derived from punch-drunk (answer: yes, which is sobering), after which spouse remarked that individual body parts can be described as being asleep in English, but what other things can they be? (I’ll put some things I thought were interesting about this in the next post in this thread.)
More silliness ensued, and then I said:
Where do compound words come from? Well, when two morphemes love each other very much…
(A linguistics professor from my college said that English is almost as compound-happy as German, which isn’t surprising as it’s also a Germanic language. We mostly don’t recognize it and don’t spell most of them that way.)
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Look, #JDVance is the guy who married a woman who is a #US citizen because of the 14th Amendment. Which he opposes.
The guy who endorsed a #German political party that considers Vance’s children less than racially pure.
So we are dealing with a very strange and fucked up dude. But still, not knowing how WW2 ended is a special level of humiliation.
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