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My point was that what Nabokov said about Russian "When you speak Russian your mouth ought to distend laterally at the corners" also applied to German, and that saying "ich" proper…

The "ich-laut" does not exist in english. It's not like just saying "ish." Example: https://youtu.be/oSIPAMoCzhA?t=195

Be born into a noble family with english speaking governesses.

Everything he says here also applies to german. For example, to actually say "ich" properly you need to have a wide kind of smile that feels incredibly strange to an english native…

Yes it is very far from intuitive (as a developer I can tell when uis are designed solely by developers). The way I think of it is this: you do all of your foreign language reading…

Also check out the lingq exporter [1] which works with Youtube as well. Does something similar but also allows you to keep an inventory of your current vocabulary on the lingq plat…

It's not that difficult of an intellectual exercise to find parallels between one time and place and Weimar Germany. Honestly this article is a bit intellectually dishonest by sayi…

With eggs you are probably getting plenty of protein. I have been mostly vegan for a while and I don't think my bike riding has been affected, but I can tell you it definitely affe…

I can second the Chartrand book (I believe you mean "Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics"). I used this book in a "bridge" class and loved it; it really start…

I've been reading the Norton Edition of Franklin's autobiography and some of the excerpts in the back of the book are pretty amazing. A lot of them pretty vicious European response…

I've been devoting a lot of time to learning hardware lately and the resources that have worked best for me are: Make: Electronics [1] This is a very accessible, hands on driven bo…

In my experience writing getters and setters has been boilerplate 99% of the time. But I still write them because situations arise where you do need to change the nature of that pr…

> I know people will disagree, but a skilled photoshopper can often reproduce the look and feel of film with digital. But why go through the hassle of photoshopping when you can ju…

"The danger in trying to force object-oriented concepts onto a C base is to get an inconsistent construction, impairing the software development process and the quality of the resu…

Yet another reason for this not already mentioned is that some enterprise customers actually expect these ugly interfaces. This horrible ie 6/7 aesthetic has come to signify what "…