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by stratocumulus0 9mo ago
US-American is a Germanism and the authors are German.
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by stratocumulus0 9mo ago
My issue with organic stores in Germany is that they offer the exact same stuff you can get in a regular supermarket, just smaller, less flavorful and more expensive. My pet theory is that a lot of people here just don't really enjoy f
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
I know people who behave as if they had to spend money as quickly as possible every time they receive a paycheck. Their wish lists are just "ideas to spend money".
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
To me it's more telling of German mentality: if I follow all the rules, then the outcome has to be correct. Tell them it's not the case, and they won't know what to do now.
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
This doesn't happen in my speech, I certainly pronounce both <a>'s as [a] in "niania". [ɛ] is different, it certainly becomes [e] after palatalized consonants. I agree that people cannot tell the difference intuiti
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
Every time there is a longer period of cold weather in the warm season I see populists on social media ironically asking where is this climate change supposed to be. People have a short context window. It doesn't help that our efforts
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
First of all, listen to your body and calm down. I've been to an otolaryngologist recently because of recurrent dizzy spells. The test results were all good, and the diagnosis was simple: I've been unconsciously flexing my muscles
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
Twain is of course being satirical here, but I can tell that many people have an overly strict approach towards language learning. They expect rigid rules and get annoyed when the language does not adhere to them, yet they do not realize th
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
I'm a Polish speaker and have met some Polish learners in my life. Often I have no better advice than "you choose the conjugation patern based on how does the word feel to you".
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by stratocumulus0 1y ago
Having lived here for a bit over 5 years, I can say that Germans too often like to speak from the moral high ground. There are things that are sacred and indisputable, like opposition to nuclear energy. Try to complain about a strike in pub
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
So the natural question that follows is what are your favourite authors and genres?
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Reading lists really give people the idea that reading is some mechanical task that has to be done in fixed time and has a potential to be optimized. This is how speed reading classes were invented.
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Moving to a Western country and having a Polish name with a fixed diminutive effectively means having two different names, each one used with different crowds. Work colleagues know me by my full name, everyone else by the diminutive. A frie
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
I've been working on a project for the former Polish state telco and the codebase was mostly Java EE as written in the mid-00's. Since you cannot really be productive in Java without an IDE, standard English conventions for naming
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
100+ years is still pretty recent. The immediate predecessor to English as a world language was French. Matter of fact, my country has only dropped French translations from its passport with the most recent design update a decade ago or so.
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
At the same time, foreign companies are only allowed to operate in China through partnerships with Chinese companies. Why should we play fair if they don't?
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
> I have yet to see even the most progressive Western European country that didn’t have a huge hate against Roma/Travelers You don't even have to go this deep. Each and every friend of mine who's German of mixed heritage (
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
I've identified a specific style of speech in my native language that is used by less educated people trying to sound formal. It involves as many official or legalese-sounding terms a layman could come across, intertwined with "fo
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
At the same time, a great deal of pedestrian crossings is not marked for cars at all, and only at most hinted towards for pedestrians. Sometimes there is a small pedestrian crossing sign painted on the road facing the sidewalk, sometimes th
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
It's not customary, it's a widely recognized problem that a significant portion of the population starts the day with liquor. Maybe for blue collar workers it's more normalized, but if a white collar has such habit then they
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Or maybe it's because every other company has an app, just like every company had a hotline at some point. Even if few people will use it, you have to have all the communication channels covered.
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Having graduated from a Polish university and having done a semester in Germany I can say that at least the people who attended university in Germany had an idea what are they interested in and what do they want to do after graduating, whil
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Not even Pierogies, these were literally wheat crepes folded twice in a turnover way. It's basically krokiety, just with a different shape.
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
I grew up in Poland in the 00's, so long after the transformation and I would already know actual pizza ("actual" meaning that my favorite pizza was ground meat with garlic sauce and caraway in a pizzeria that was likely one
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Regarding the rosary, I would rather guess Warsaw being the seat of government attracts lots of fringe types who come there to protest. I've last been living there in 2019 and I remember that the political climate was already heating u
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
I already find it disturbing enough that I'm getting targeted by all those run-of-the-mill AI entrpreneurs matching the ML part of my job title and auto-generating my work email in order to try to sell me their barely strung together C
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
I remember seeing that some people in the corporate world put a capital J instead of a dot in some sentences. I first brushed this off as some artificial corporate level of politeness that's not too forward (the hook of a J does indeed
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by stratocumulus0 2y ago
Maybe this approach would have made sense if the area were an established hub in whatever craft those immigrants are specializing in, but in case of Portugal what I can see is a country with (formerly?) cheap CoL trying to attract immigrant
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by stratocumulus0 3y ago
Some countries including my home country Poland impose a ban on political agitation on the election day. It means that no political content may be published on that day, but whatever has been published before that is allowed to stay. This i
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by stratocumulus0 3y ago
I find it to be coincidental to the general interest in mental health and the resulting wave of self-diagnoses. It has its positive sides - even I did eventually seek psychological help after going through all the resources available online

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