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To be precise: One of three or four canteens on the main site was affected. So there still was alternative.
Assuming 90:10 meat eaters to vegetarians, and a reduction of 25% of the capacity, 15% of workers who are meat eaters will have to eat at the vegetarian canteen.
Contains a typical spelling mistake you find suprisingly often in English text when using German words. Swapping 'ie' to 'ei'. In this case 'Weiner' (wrong, someone who is crying) instead of 'Wiener' (correct, a type of sausage). One I've seen the other day is 'Kreigsmarine' instead of 'Kriegsmarine'. Anyone knows why this happens?
I think Americans pronounce names like Weinstein as 'winesteen'. So perhaps the pronunciation of the latter syllable makes German origin diphthongs confusing.
Volkswagen Originalteil Sausages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19611673 - April 2019 (22 comments)
I feel like there have been other threads about this...anyone?
Fun Trivia: When Volkswagen announced that their canteen would offer vegetarian and vegan alternatives, Germany's ex chancellor Schröder made the headlines with deriding this decision and calling the sausage the "Kraftriegel der Arbeiter" (worker's power bar).
Had to check this and it turns out that what you're saying is not quite correct: The canteen stopped serving meat altogether which meant that the famous "VW-Currywurst" wouldn't be available anymore. That's what Schröder complained about, not the availability of vegan alternatives. He actually praised those in the same sentence.
Contains a typical spelling mistake you find suprisingly often in English text when using German words. Swapping 'ie' to 'ei'. In this case 'Weiner' (wrong, someone who is crying) instead of 'Wiener' (correct, a type of sausage). One I've seen the other day is 'Kreigsmarine' instead of 'Kriegsmarine'. Anyone knows why this happens?
Because ie is pronounced aye in English, and eeeee in German.
And ei is pronounced eeeee in English, and aye in German.
(Mil specs are analogous to a having a standard library of subroutines. Engineers don't have to re-invent how to lubricate a bearing or tighten a bolt or cad plate a part, they just specify the relevant mil spec.)
Contains a typical spelling mistake you find suprisingly often in English text when using German words. Swapping 'ie' to 'ei'. In this case 'Weiner' (wrong, someone who is crying) instead of 'Wiener' (correct, a type of sausage). One I've seen the other day is 'Kreigsmarine' instead of 'Kriegsmarine'. Anyone knows why this happens?
> Anyone knows why this happens? Because ie is pronounced aye in English, and eeeee in German. And ei is pronounced eeeee in English, and aye in German.
Grief? Tier? Thief?
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> Anyone knows why this happens? Because ie is pronounced aye in English, and eeeee in German. And ei is pronounced eeeee in English, and aye in German.
> Because ie is pronounced aye in English Grief? Tier? Thief?
When I worked at Boeing, the coffee machine had a MIL SPEC taped to it that properly explained the procedure in making regulation milspec coffee. (Mil specs are analogous to a having a standard library of subroutines. Engineers don't have to re-invent how to lubricate a bearing or tighten a bolt or cad plate a part, they just specify the relevant mil spec.)
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1. Material Safety Data Sheet. These are most commonly provided for the assorted potentially hazardous chemicals in industrial use.