Just to be clear, I did not mean 'nitpicky' as an insult, in the same way I don't (always) consider the Dutch tendency to speak our minds even when not asked a

Just to be clear, I did not mean 'nitpicky' as an insult, in the same way I don't (always) consider the Dutch tendency to speak our minds even when not asked a bad thing. One of the reasons I like living in different cultures is that they show me different ways to do thing, and I've come to greatly appreciate many of the more 'typical' German things.