On Saturday, I was invited by a #German friend to come over for an asparagus dinner.
For those who don't know, Germans go absolutely WILD for asparagus around this time of year.
I was a bit nervous. as I never liked asparagus, so in the 8 years of living here, I just never joined in #spargelzeit. So this would be the first time I tried them here.
Well, I've been missing out, it was super delicious, and I wonder what was wrong with all the other asparagus meals I had before.
If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.
That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. #Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.
I just found out one actually useful use case for #LLM (a.k.a. “AI”).
There is thousands of tonnes of documents from #german#nazi#regime detailing basically everything what happened, who was involved and who participated what and said what.
Feed ALL of that to an LLM and ask it “how can we avoid this happening ever again”. I have a pretty good guess my self but some people aren’t that convinced. Perhaps this is The Key. #history#sciense#neverAgain
Why the f*** would #Putin try to coopt the legacy of Immanuel #Kant?
It's probably not a serious question. Maybe it's just a silly immature dunk on #Germany / #German pride. Or maybe there's something darker in Kant's writings that #Russia thinks supports recent #Russian behavior (I have no reason to believe there is, I'm just openly musing).
Either way it's certainly a bizarre new front in the conflict: #philosophy war.
One of the fun things about German is how confusing it is. To make a word plural, you add -n/-en, umlaut + -er, umlaut or do nothing. So a lot of beginners will take der Vogel ( a bird ) and add an n but also an umlaut. Vögeln. This is however incorrect. It has the same meaning as ficken or bumsen. It means to fuck.
The true plural is die Vögel. Birds and the bees I guess.
We totally randomly met two #bicycle riders this morning near our home, apparently they're traveling around #Greece & #Albania with bicycles. They are a #German & #Italian couple. We invited them at my mom's home and we all had lunch together. Apparently they are #PhD candidates in #Austria, one in #chemistry and the other one in #biology. Very interesting young people. It was a good day today.
if it is the defense support for #ukraine or the question if #russia#china spying is a "bad thing", the electorate of the #german#green party reliably takes the lead, while #farright#afd puts its tail between its legs (to stay with the image)
In the 'non EU' queue recently in #German#immigration. The #Gammon in front of me was complaining about how 'they' have a law that would put you in prison for being rude to officials, but they can be rude as they like to you.
He then was insensed that the officer was spending a long time politely detailing to the person in front how to get to Frankfurt, what to see, and generally being a wonderful, welcoming ambassador for Germany.
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?