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But it uses Roman letters which form the Latin alphabet. Romanization here means that Japanese text gets transcribed into Roman characters. The fact that the transcription follows …

I live in Germany and I've recently booked a cheap car with Hertz for a weekend trip. At the rental office, they offered me to upgrade to a premium EV for no additional cost, becau…

I've had the exact same reasoning about Polish, and after I've moved to Germany I've noticed that quite often I'm able to just translate a phrase directly from Polish and it would …

Sorry, but this doesn't explain anything to me. You've traced genetic mutations that cause an array of ailments and conditions spread all over the body, and propose that taking vit…

I get that it might be a lot of stuff, but for the record, couldn't you post it here on a public forum for the other interested parties to see?

Care to share your findings?

As I see it, this is to point out that attempts to change sexual orientation are doomed to be unsuccessful - and these are, in most cases, either forced or caused by peer pressure.…

I think English knowledge is a generational thing, irrelevant of background. People who migrated earlier had to learn the local language, because English knowledge was not prevalen…

I feel this inability to blend in is a thing in most of Europe. A non-white person will always be perceived as an other by a significant portion of the society. I've had two friend…

I have recognized at some point that I had something similar, but originating in my childhood. Most of the time I would be told to do something vague (e.g. clean your room), and no…

I'm renting an apartment in Germany in a building from around 1900 and I do have a clause requiring me to open my windows at least once a day for at least 5 minutes. Not sure that …

It's not like those elections are fair anyway?

I've seen them folded like that in restaurants, but the homemade ones are usually folded with a plain edge.

I no longer live there, but when I visit now, I often see the name "Kresowe" having replaced "Ruskie", Kresy being the name of a historical region around the Polish/Ukrainian borde…

Polish from Poland here: no need to roll them out thin. Might be a variation found in your family, but typical pierogi - including those made by my Grandma - have some fluff. A dif…

We had a Brazilian come to visit us in Europe and she was wondering why do we insist on using Sicilian lemons instead of the "normal" ones. When she went out to buy limes, she unde…

Yes, but we are talking about YouTube, aren't we?

I just don't get people who discuss the morality of ad blocking. You see the corporation as a human, while it sees you as an optimization metric.

This is me. I stopped trying to be organized, because I know that as soon as there is some inconvenience or difficulty organizing, I will just get overwhelmed and drop everything I…

I don't know if it's universally a common sense standpoint with regard to everyone. Some people have a purpose to provide to their family and leave a legacy; this is a goal that ca…

I know one person that's the kind this post is referring to. They will more or less unknowingly sabotage their friendships because they are not able to understand that not everyone…

Wow, someone I (somewhat) know in person featured on HN. I haven't heard from him in a long while (and even then, he was a friend of a friend who happened to show up from time to t…

That's 100% the thing. KitKat for example has recently been taking hits to its reputation because there have been instances of groping in there and they've been ignored by the club…

The only difference with today would be that not speaking German no longer means that you are visiting. Boroughs such as Friedrichshain or Neukölln are full of expats, including yo…

In practice, "Keine Werbung" means "No advertisements except for moving services". These are the only ones that don't give a shit.