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Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
by 613style 1y ago
Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
- dgan 1y agobecause he s in front of me and i have eyes ?
- quesera 1y agoPerhaps he has a renal function issue. Perhaps he has a familial history of same and is acclimated to drinking more water than you are comfortable with. Perhaps he just enjoys drinking water. I do. As cold as possible. Kaltes Klares Vasser. Regardless, ain't none o' yr dang bidness.
- Toorkit 1y agoCold Clear Vater
- quesera 1y agoHah, quite. I only cosplay Deutscher Sprecher. Most of my German linguistic skills come from listening to Chicks on Speed.
- 1718627440 1y ago> Kaltes Klares Vasser If that was supposed to be German for "cold clear water" that's "kaltes klares Wasser" and we don't capitalize adjectives.
- quesera 1y agoIt's actually a song title, so properly capitalized, but I mussed the V v. W because I do not speak German and forgot that when she sings "VASSuh", it's spelled with a W. :)
- 1718627440 1y agoTo me the pronunciation of the first letter of the English word water and the German word Wasser sounds the same, but maybe my English is wrong.
- quesera 1y agoApparently it varies, but German-W pronounced as English-V (or at least nearly so) is the most common variation? Many sources on the net, but this one has the most nuanced discussion that I could find: https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/53ws8q/are_ws_always_pronounced_like_vs/ https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/53ws8q/are_ws_alway...
- 1718627440 1y agoOk, as a German, I think we just don't care about the distinction. We only have the two letters/sounds W and F, the first representing various sounds between [w] and [v]. I think it isn't even a dialect thing, i.e. it is more like unspecified behaviour not like implementation-defined, it can change by time-of-day by a single person, because we just don't care. The letter V can represent either the German W or F sound, I think you just need to know that for every word.