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Reminds me of the gag, "English is the best language as it always has a mot juste for everything"
English has lots and lots and lots of vocabulary. Of course, a lot of that vocabulary still has tags on it saying "PROPERTY OF SPANISH" or "IF FOUND, RETURN TO FRANCE".
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Tell your friend you are emulating 18th century English: > We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Note the founders were already declining to capitalize Truths or Men :)
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The worst thing is someone trying to put it in past tense: For "herunterladen" it's easy: "herunter-ge-laden". For "download", the obvious choice is "downloaded", but instead some people prefer the weird hodge-podge of "down-ge-loaded"
Surely you mean downgeloadet? It's a weak verb. :D I know because ich habe gegooglet.
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It gets worse. I don't know who started it (personally I blame Apple talking about its app store) but increasingly I see "laden" being used instead of "herunterladen". When used with "auf", it's usually about installing an app: "lade dir die App auf's Handy". But frequently it's used without any preposition to mean "download": "lade den Gratis-Background". I'd much prefer "downgeloaded" over this nonsense using "actu…
So, this is how the German transition to Swedish grammar begins! Not the with a bang but with a lade den gratisbakgrund .
Vilken "den" gratisbakgrund (dvs som vadå?), vart lade du den, och ligger den kvar där?
Why would anyone use "downloaden" when there already is "herunterladen" is beyond me.
Though there is herunterladen as a verb, there is no noun for download(s). “Herunterlad(s)” doesn’t quite cut it. So because the term Download is already used as a noun why noy use downloaden as the verb.
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If you like comics, "Asterix speaks Viennese" might help: https://www.diepresse.com/5450586/asterix-auf-wienerisch-wap...
Thanks for that, its brilliant. Me and my kids salute you!
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Yeah weird, the description "in a way that is natural, often sudden, and not planned or forced" is exactly the meaning in German too. Maybe "spontaneous" has different semantics between US and UK English?
This is what I was confused about as well. In the example the meetup itself could be held as non-spontaneous (telepaths spare the price of the phone call), but deciding on the place will still be done on a whim, off the cuff, impromptu, not before, impulsively. Spontaneously? :) (On an unrelated note, let me share my favorite Anglicism that I've heard in a movie: "gekidnapped")
> intensiv means « intense » not « intensive » Huh, Leo.org doesn't seem to agree, I have seen it multiple times used like intensively. https://dict.leo.org/german-english/intensiv > a photo shoot is, rather alarmingly, a Shooting. That's hilarious lol > an online German 32-year-old and I will both, for better or worse, understand what is meant by « emu lesbian finally milkshake ducked » I am international native and…
I had to, only it didn't help.
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The term „beamer“ is an interesting one. Elder east Germans use the specific GDR term „polylux“ instead to name an projector. Since Berlin was divided not long ago. You will find both terms still circulating.
Note that "beamer" is usually used for a video projector. A polylux (which, for me, is "obviously" the better term, even though I was born after the unification :D) is only for overhead projectors that display slides. So beamer and polylux are two different things
Which is it, an overhead projector or a slide projector? They're different things.