lol, top tabloid content in #Sweden right now is an explanation on how the #German#Eurovision contestant song was named "Sweet and bitter" and not "Sweden better" as many of their readers reportedly "heard".
...has never been much more than a "footnote" in the secondary schools' textbooks, even though it briefly had the 3rd largest colonialism empire, after the #UK and #France.*
You will often see me greeting you with a "Moin" or "Moin Moin". It is just that, a greeting you can use at any time of the day. It just means "Hello!" Thus, it has nothing to do with "Good morning". This greeting is very popular in Germany, well, maybe not in Bavaria 😉
The family wheel of my paternal great-grandfather, the first in our family to take a surname. Before that, people were identified by the name of the house they currently lived in. All original houses of Kankaanpää are present.
@rmattila74 The surprise in my parents' genetic testing was that I have (a very small amount of) Horn of #Africa / #Somalia / #Ethiopia ancestry. From the percentage, it would be something like the mid-1700s. I'd like to know that story.
From family trees, I have a good bit of #German ancestry. One person was involved in the original #Illuminati and owned a castle on the #Rhine. Also, one ancestor claimed to be French, but that was a lie, & she was probably a prostitute with a cover story.
The #German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) handed over special equipment for the emergency services units to The State Emergency Service of #Ukraine
A total of 14 units of special automobile equipment.
Fire truck ladders and fire trucks make it possible to reach the upper floors of the buildings to evacuate people or to extinguish fires on the above.
So, I am finishing up a thread (a story, really) about my personal experience with the Manufacturing USA initiative and, in particular, the MxD institute in #Chicago.
That should be interesting as my thread will be highly-critical of it.
Designed to challenge #China's Made in China 2025 program, I believe it has utterly failed to do so.
But adjacent to that (or as a preview of sorts), I am reminded of another series of events that I think are under-recognized...
Anyways, there was a series of pivotal acquisitions that I think are still somewhat under-reported, but that really pushed the program ahead by 5-10 years.
#China-backed Midea Group acquired a majority stake in #German advanced industrial group, KUKA, in 2016. The rest of KUKA was acquired by Midea in 2022.
Broetje-Automation, another advanced German industrial automation firm, was acquired by Shanghai Electric Group in 2016.
@jensclasen
»Strictly speaking, Zug means Pull, Tug, Draught, Procession, March, Progress, Flight, Direction, Expedition, Train, Caravan, Passage, Stroke, Touch, Line, Flourish, Trait of Character, Feature, Lineament, Chess-move, Organ-stop, Team, Whiff, Bias, Drawer, Propensity, Inhalation, Disposition: but that thing which it does not mean,—when all its legitimate pendants have been hung on, has not been discovered yet.« #MarkTwain on the word »#Zug« #German#AwfulGermanLanguage
There it is: #ARD, the biggest public broadcaster in the world, opened its own instance for #Mastodon today – https://ard.social
Its flagship news programme gets the first account: @tagesschau.
On #Twitter the #Tagesschau has 4 million Followers, I am curious, how much it gets here and how fast. Could give us a hint on how active the german community on #Mastodon still is. The inoffical @tagesschau had amassed 53k Followers, the other public broadcaster @ZDF 13k in three weeks.
In #German, the word for source code is "Quellcode", which willl never stop to amuse me, because in Dutch "kwellen" means to torment, so phonetically, "Quellcode" sounds like "torment code" to me.
@pfefferle question, was this posted marked as being in #German or #English? I ask because my #Mastodon didn't give me the option to translate it and so I'm wondering if there is something up with Mastodon and not actually an issue with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress that I had reported on GitHub.
@tim I maybe have to think about using the language marker in the future. I thought I add #german to make that clear, but it would have been easier to simply mark it as german.
While I have a workable grasp of #German these days (despite still not being friends with certain parts of the grammar), the biggest problem is that I still can't be as expressive in the language as I can be in my native languages.
The end result of this, is that I can handle myself perfectly well in bureaucracy, medical situations, etc, but when it comes to more "free form" conversations, I get frustrated pretty quickly. Oddly enough, it's a lot easier when I've had a drink or two.
#German is a highly "gender-friendly" language, in contrast to #Cherokee.
Many of the German-speaking #LGBTQIA+ community are quite fond and adamant of gendering. In contrast 2 English, it isn't just a question of pronouns, however. Many more things change + you usually get the 3 basic variants in all parts if the sentence, broadly speaking.
This...
...not only elongates almost all sentences, it also makes it more prone to confusion and misunderstanding.
In short, from objective point of view, the vast majority of #German-speaking people suffers in understanding and clarity for a small minority.
For them, it is worth going "the extra mile", as they see a n identity issue. And I respect that. Also, in English, where it is usually a...
I'm trying to calculate how much taxes my husband and I would pay if we relocated to Germany, and there is this website that claims to help: https://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/
Except that the amount of taxes is so huge that I am not sure if this website works! 😅
Are there any Germans on the Fediverse who could tell me if this website really shows a realistic amount of taxes to pay? (I've selected category IV)
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/