My favourite German word
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My favourite German word
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#2You are wrong. Faultier FTW.
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#3You are wrong. Faultier FTW.
Waschbär is another great one.
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#4> That is like asking how we can make our cities better for cars, or our workplaces better for the furniture (emphasis mine)
I love this analogy and am going to use it.
This is a fantastic article. In the end, everything is still, and will always be, about people. We ignore and forget that at our peril.
Thanks!
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#5You are wrong. Faultier FTW.
Baumkuchen! (Tree-cake)
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#6So if an object is “standing against” you could we say it is “objecting” you?
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#7You are wrong. Faultier FTW.
Backpfeifengesicht
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#8The first half of the essay:
> It happened astonishingly fast; within about five years a knowledge skill that I had completely taken for granted as a basic requisite in an undergraduate was diminished beyond recognition.
Then the second half
> A good way of writing documentation for human beings today will still be a good way to do it in a few years’ time.
Don't these contradict each other? Documentation that worked well for us who grew up pre-Internet is not working well for "web natives".
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#9That’s great, but gegenstand just means object, and that definition of object is part of English, e.g. “The object of having this talk is to learn about how we can do better.”
You don’t hear that said much anymore, but in the 20th century it was said fairly regularly.
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#10Fremdschämen is a good one.
My favourite though: Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. It's one of those things that you never knew you needed.