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On the German language we have the word "gratis" that's equal to "for free". It's heavily used in advertisements like "get this phone gratis and for 0 € (but pa
by SeriousM 6y ago
On the German language we have the word "gratis" that's equal to "for free".
It's heavily used in advertisements like "get this phone gratis and for 0 € (but pay 29€ per month)".
I don't trust advertisements and never did. I hate it how the customer gets lied to with every word, sound and visual.
Facebook is nothing different, they are a company kept up for selling ads.
I not mad at them, it's just hard to ignore them when they start to cry because they try to lie to their customers...
- majewsky 6y agoGerman does a better job of separating the words for free as in speech ("frei") and free as in beer ("gratis", "kostenlos", "umsonst"). But curiously, it's exactly the other way around for "einfach", which has two drastically different meanings ("easy" and "simple") that Germans tend to conflate because German only has one word for it. </linguistics-funfact>
- SeriousM 6y agoYou're absolutely right! In English it's easy for me to distinguish the meanings but in german it's hard to find the difference and to find alternatives.