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Animate gender didn’t split into masculine and feminine — inanimate collective plural was repurposed as feminine.

Excellent. Now do “bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”.

This isn’t hard to understand. “Burgher” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” as in “bürgerlicher Mittagstisch”, “Der Bürger duldet nichts Unverständliches im Haus”. “…

> In German it really just means "Citizen". It most definitely does not — it’s both “citoyen” and “bourgeois”.

They are not. In their defense, these people are imbeciles.

I think you’ll find we’re pedants.

> and mild inflammation may occur without noticable swelling. Calor, dolor, rubor, tumor

Golf.

Also, http://www.numdam.org/item/SPHM_1979___2_A1_0.pdf

This is not even approximately true. j is not “defined in terms of E”. It occurs as a source term in one of the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations, and consistency with the other inho…

Resistivity is measured in ohms * meter, so this may be a unit conversion issue…

> Sure there was the odd professor that would call a stack a "Stapel" “Kellerspeicher”, certainly

I don‘t think that‘s unintuitive. What goes into a source-free volume element has to go out of that volume element (radiation or field).

> You also have the joy of "the hole for a 17/64ths Whitworth tap is 47.2 thou" or whatever other imperial nonsense machinists have to deal with. It’s worse. The drill size for a 7…

> 21. A widower was showing some friendly guests around his garden. "Look", he said, "There is the tree where my three unhappy wives hanged themselves". One of the attendees, who w…

While I do hold opinions about criminal justice, you can't possibly know what they are. I was pointing out that introducing "free will" into the debate only introduces a layer of i…

Even if free will is an illusion (and I'm not sure how to assign meaning to this statement), how does that change anything? If a murderer had no choice but to murder, then the pros…

On their way to the store, most bulk products have been expectorated on by a number of sweaty men in dirty boots. It's not obvious to me how packaging would lower that number.

I know of Goldschmied, Silberschmied, Kupferschmied, Feinschmied, Grobschmied, Messerschmied, and Stahlschmied ({gold, silver, copper, fine, coarse, blade, steel} smith), all of wh…

> Having to think ahead to "okay what's the gender of the noun I'm gonna use three words from now. Now, that's interesting. I'm a native speaker of German, and just the other day I…

German is not an agglutinative language.