Fellow #german speakers who play and talk about #videogames in german. I'm in the process of translating a mod right now and I think I need some opinions.
Would you translate "host" (as in someone who hosts a lobby or server) as "Gastgeber" or does it sound "too german"? Is "host" enough of a common word that you wouldn't question it in a german sentence?
This will surely be an effective kind of demarketing for would-be "immigrantion into the national social-security system,"/s as the new #German fascist party (#NoAfD) would call it nowadays.
When I posted a link to the brand new song of #german#hiphop crew #antilopengang where they denounce the #woke#antisemitism and the lack of empathy for the #jewish victims raped, tortured and abused by #hamas the admin gave me 24 hours to leave musicians.today. So here I am - still horrified by the cowardice of the admin of my old instance and disillusioned about the culture of debate on #mastodon . Hope it will be better here on mastodon.social .
So let’s check out if the moderators of musicians.today will cancel this post, too.
Brand new song of #German#HipHop Crew #AntilopenGang about the #woke#antisemitism of so-called progressives
"How does it feel to be a war-crimes reporter whose family bankrolled a nation that’s committing war crimes?
I can tell you.
I covered the genocide in Bosnia for The Post, wrote a book about it, and reported from Iraq & Afghanistan, among other conflict-ridden countries. Also, my ancestors were key funders of Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
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"My #Jewish identity was always a bit vague because my ancestors were #German#Jews who assimilated at the speed of cultural sound...
I began to feel more Jewish while covering the #genocide of Bosnia’s #Muslims. What Levin points to — the defense of #Palestinians increasingly being an act of Jewish identity, particularly for younger Jews — feels right for me, too." #GiftArticle https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
Ever since its inception by means of ethnic cleansing, #Israel has remained by far the most dangerous place on Earth for #Jews to live, at least insofar as the Zionist settler-colony remains in tact (I will literally immigrate to the State of Palestine when its dismantled, the sooner the better). #German insistence that without colonizing #Palestine we're in danger of another #Holocaust is the most pernicious veiled threat I can imagine to come from those who committed some of the worst crimes in all of human history against us.
Hundreds of #German#Police Risk Dismissal Over ‘ #Extremist ’ Views
Members of the German police force who are suspected of holding opinions deemed unacceptable by #Federal Interior #Minister Nancy #Faeser and her #political allies risk having their employment terminated under a new law.
So this is partially at people that think language doesn't change but also just really cool. I learned recently that R's in english are slowly disappearing. It's especially prominant in American English. R's are increasingly unpronounced.
It makes pronouncing German for English speakers very difficult. So I have been partially rolling my 'r's like a spanish rr as a crutch as I relearn to pronounce r's.
You know what's also really cool? the i in the personal pronoun "ich" in German is empty. You are not pronoucning the i you are pronouncing an empty vowel. It's also what makes German sound so choppy compared to Dutch. Every single space in German is this unpronounced vowel.
Isn't that cool? And proof that language changes constantly even if purists like to pretend it doesn't? It's one of the defining factors that differentiates British English and American English speakers. Weak rs!
I think my apathy towards a immaculately groomed lawn is making my neighbours not like me. Especially the one who cuts their lawn every three days during the summer. 🤷♂️
@grmpyprogrammer and I thought, we germans were the masters of lawn shaving 😂 During summertime the lawn mowers wake you up in the morning and sing you to sleep in the night (okay, I might be exaggerating a bit 😏. But not by much). I don't care that much as long as it's sorta green outside. I can't help shaking my head when I see an overly groomed front yard with burnt gras on it, because people cut way to short. Gets me every time... #german#Rasenpflege
Via reading about the theremin, I reached Wikipedia's page about the Sorbs. Out of curiosity I started reading it. Then I thought I'd rather read it in #German. So I went to the German Wikipedia page about the Sorben and read for a while.
When I was finished, it occurred to me that there are some subjects I prefer reading about in German vs. English. It depends on my original context for those subjects.
Looking for literature on German in the Netherlands for a sociolinguistics class next semester!
I'm especially interested the German-speaking communities abroad (who is part of it, what languages do they speak) & language ideologies around German in the Dutch context. Thanks! ☺️
Well, in the mid-90s the uncoolest thing you could do in German pop business was...singing in German. Not a single one of my friends took that seriously AT all....
Then, I discovered this band that could BENT German lyrics right into my heart...
By the way, the German word for "mullet" (the hairstyle) is "Vokuhila" (foh-coo-HEE-luh), and it's short for "vorne kurz, hinten lang" which literally means "short at the front, long at the back".
And no, this is not an April Fools' joke, it's already 12:08am on April 2 here in Germany :P