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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it worked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What life hack helped you this year?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Bananenweizen if you’re efficient

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Die habe ich, aber es hängt vom Ziel ab. Wenn man die ganzen Kleinigkeiten wirklich verstehen will, sind die Duden Grammatik und www.dwds.de nicht zu unterschätzen, aber dafür muss man Deutsch auf einem gewissen Niveau (~B2-C1) schon können. Um soweit zu kommen, sollte man möglichst viel Input*, Zeit solches zu bearbeiten, und durchdachte Korrektur (jeder falscher Artikel muss nicht korrigiert werden aber Fehler, die die Kommunikation verhindern sollten erklärt werden, solange die Situation das erlaubt) kriegen.

  Kurz gesagt ist mein Rat auch nicht so eigenartig. Ich glaube wir legen den Fokus zu scharf auf Auswendiglernen, aber das ist eigentlich nur relevant, wenn man fehlerfrei kommunizieren will. Es ist eine Tatsache, dass viele Menschen kein perfektes, sondern ausreichendes Deutsch können wollen, und das ist okay.

  *Inputquellen, die Lernmotivation erwecken können und die ich nie als Lernende in einem Deutschkurs gesehen habe: Rammstein (nicht wirklich meins, aber etwa ein drittel der deutschlernenden, die ich kenne, sind durch Rammstein zu Deutsch gekommen); gemischtes Hack, oÄ; synchronisierte Serien, die man schon kennt; Tabletopspiele sowie MtG oder DnD; und moderne Jugendliteratur (ich war ein bisschen zu alt damals für die Percy Jackson Bücher auf Englisch, aber sie waren perfekt für mein Deutschniveau und noch interessant als Erwachsene - natürlich wäre etwas unübersetztes wie Tintenwelt noch besser)- dabei ist die Regel, dass man zwischen 2-5 Wörter pro Seite nachschlagen müssen sollte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ich mache mein Master im DaF, damit ich Deutsch unterrichten kann (was ich auch schon während des Studiums mache). Du hast recht, dass man Jahre dafür braucht, welches natürlich zu Demotivation führen kann. Ich versuche, meine Studis zu beruhigen, aber man muss auch lernen, Fehler zu akzeptieren.

  Ich habe das Glück, dass meine Muttersprache Englisch ist. Das hilft mit dem Sprachgefühl (das ist übrigens genau das richtige Fachwort dafür), da ich instinktiv wusste, dass es nicht “gesingt” sondern “gesungen” war, zum Beispiel. Dafür hatte ich wirklich Probleme, den Unterschied zwischen -e und -er zu hören und auszusprechen, aber das kann man einfacher trainieren.

  Ich glaube, Deutsch wäre aber viel einfacher zu lernen, wenn wir es anders unterrichten würden. Es gibt zum Beispiel doch lockere Muster fürs Genus der Nomen*, aber sie sind kaum geforscht, weil Muttersprachler sie weder brauchen noch darauf aufpassen. Nichtmuttersprachler wiederum wissen meistens nicht, dass es solche gibt. Ich war schon im Master, bevor eine Lehrperson das zugegeben hat- vorher haben alle Deutschlehrer immer gesagt, dass es nur Muster für ein paar Suffixe gibt und alles sonst zufällig ist.

  Ich wollte eigentlich solche Muster für meine Masterarbeit untersuchen, aber die AG hatte keine Interesse daran. Ich glaube, ich müsste aber ein bisschen fortgeschrittener sein, dem Thema gerecht zu werden, da es noch sehr nebelig ist.

  • zum Beispiel: Wörter, die auf Englisch und Deutsch mit -er enden, die aber nichts mit Verben zu tun haben, wie Finger, (Stufen-)Leiter, Butter, Schulter sind oft feminin. Stoffe sind meistens neutral, und diese Regel hat Vorrang vor der letzten- Leder ist also neutral. Stoffe die sehr konkret sind, wie Stein und Stahl sind wiederum maskulin. Ich würde das so gerne wirklich untersuchen, aber niemand findet es so interessant wie ich.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did I forget?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Conlangs!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mach’s ruhig weiter! Ich finde es eben noch schwer, sie richtig einzusetzen.

  Ich hab das Thema gewählt, weil jemand mir nach vier Jahren in Deutschland erklärt hat, genau was „ruhig” eigentlich bedeutet (mit ruhiger Seele oder ohne ein schlechtes Gefühl zu haben, für Nichtmuttersprachler). Ich dachte, es war etwas wie “ich sage niemandem, es bleibt unser kleines Geheimnis.” Aber denk mal an Situationen in denen man das sagt- ich glaube, ich hätte nie bemerkt, dass es falsch war. Ich hätte es aber bestimmt falsch benutzt 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in chemical exposure insurance and to be honest, it would be very difficult to tell because of the increased risk of cancer from chemicals used in the growing process as it is. Most of the countries that have banana plantations can’t really defend their citizens against huge fruit companies, so if something has been declared illegal in Hawaii, they just use it in their other plantations, and of course the US is dismantling the EPA and NLRB, so soon they might not even be illegal there anymore. Organic fruit is not significantly different, because there are lots of things that are allowed for them that are still carcinogenic to humans in large concentrations.

  I’m really sorry to be a downer, but sometimes the world sucks, and pineapple and banana companies suck even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The disadvantaged are more sensitive to biased language for good reasons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s more often biased against them, and with fewer resources, they’re more affected by it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨freddie mercury⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t he the Killer Queen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I recorded conversations held by non-native German speakers who learned mostly in classes and compared their particle (well, just, right, etc.) usage with that of non-native speakers who learned mostly without instruction. Then I compared those to native speakers. Now I just have to make the case for better particle instruction in German classes. It should be easy because I’ve already illustrated that particle usage is important for communication and affects the perceived language skill of the user, but ugh, writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans be like:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I don’t really think of NPR or PBS as print media, so I don’t really seek out their websites, unless I want to listen to the radio while away from an actual radio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in long-tailed litigated liability insurance claims. Think asbestos, lead paint, toxic exposures, etc. Insurance comes into play for defending companies against lawsuits made by people suffering from those exposures. I rationalized it to myself for a year and a half (if we don’t pay for the company’s defense attorneys, we couldn’t pay the claimants their settlements; we’re just following the contract; at this point, the big players are bankrupt, so the claimants are just going after easy targets; etc.), but it makes the world worse and I eventually quit.

  I looked at other aspects of the industry, but there really wasn’t a role that I could feel totally comfortable with. At best, I felt like I I worked for the organization which gave earth “adequate notice” for the hyperspace bypass in hitchhikers guide.

  I went back to school and now I teach new immigrants the local language. It took a lot of work and I make less money, but holy shit was it worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What do they get out of it? It’s expensive and you don’t even actually owe money. Plus, extradition agreements only cover either things that both countries consider illegal, or a set of very serious crimes, like murder, afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But then what?

  Is a foreign government going to extradite you for missing paperwork and no outstanding tax debts (especially because everyone else thinks it’s nuts that we require nonresident citizens to file taxes)? I guess it’s possible, but it strikes me as very unlikely.

  But if you’re still financially attached to the US/likely to visit, they’ve got some power over you.

  I’m not a lawyer or an accountant (obviously. This is not best practices)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re saying that your proposed best case causes possible instant death, whereas the proposed worst case would take days to kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You still have to file, but you don’t need to pay taxes unless you’re earning enough that the visa won’t be a problem.

  But, like, if you close everything out and never go back…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, and whether intelligence is required for mastery of language. Not even that long ago, in 2009, my linguistics professor held a forum discussion within the linguistics, informatics, and philosophy departments at my school where they each gave their perspectives on whether true mastery of language could exist without intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Linguists were divided until recently, to be fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m assuming the poster is Christian, tbf. If they’re just a very demonstrative Zoroastrian, then it’s not the same god (mostly. That’s a little debatable, but I’m not informed enough to debate it).

  But the god of Abraham is the god of Abraham. If there’s a debate there, you’ll have to explain it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even the same god

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a near distant future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’ll need to be Luigi 2036, because he’d still be 34 on inauguration day 2032.

  Though I mean, I can imagine the laws changing quite significantly in the next few years, so who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what difference this makes, but I can see snapshots of each of those, just not video. Though if I imagine biting into an apple, I can get all the senses together.

  I think I might have just been trying to isolate sight from the other senses, because the only real experience I have with only the sight of apples is in pictures, so it being automatically 2d does make sense.

  They can rotate the image in their minds, break it in half and examine the insides, see the seeds and the veins on the leaf and the discoloration near the stem.

  Yeah, checking now, I can see those things as well as long as I’m also feeling, hearing, and smelling them.

  Thank you! I first learned about this a while ago and I’ve occasionally wondered about it. I don’t think I would have figured it out without you talking me through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m overthinking this, but I can’t tell how you would know that you’re seeing it. I think I see it if I try, but my natural inclination is more like I know the apple’s there but I’m not looking at it.

  Bizarrely, I am sure that I can “see” aspects of the apple, because that’s how I’m trying to focus on seeing it. Like, I can see the dimple where the stem connects and the curve of the apple with natural color variation for the part of the apple that I can see, but if I try to zoom out, it’s back to awareness of the apple.

  I think I’m overthinking it, because I can “see” approximations of the apple variations in this post, but maybe it’s because they’re two dimensional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was at a regional magnet school, so I probably would have gone to my town’s middle school.

  I honestly don’t know what happens if you get kicked out of that- maybe you go to a neighboring town’s school, or maybe there are other schools for kids that get expelled, but the government still has an obligation to educate you until a certain age, so you don’t just stop going to school (unless you’re in juvenile detention, at which point you probably have a teacher on premises).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero tolerance policies in schools and mandatory minimum sentences have the same arguments and issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot to take my adhd medication as a twelve year old and my mom gave it to me as I ran out the door. I put it in my pocket, forgot about it until later, and then nearly got expelled for trying to sell drugs because of a zero tolerance policy.

  I say nearly, because I’m white with educated parents and a sympathetic situation, so obviously the zero tolerance policy learned a little tolerance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You think apple and (apparently) ‘see’ an apple. I think apple and it’s like thinking of how you’d describe an apple. It’s red, it’s round. It has a stem. It’s juicy. It tastes good… but I can’t see it. Or anything else. They’re just thoughts

  I think I’m a one, but I might be a five and I can’t tell, because how do I know what format my brain uses to tell me apple? I just know that it does.

  I can imagine tastes well enough to cook pretty well and can often predict what a dish will taste like with pretty good accuracy ( I just recently saw a recipe for chocolate rosemary banana bread, and I could imagine that combination, even though I’d never had it before), so there are clearly some senses I can do it for. I think I can also do it visually, but I can’t exactly print it out, so I just know that I’ve received the thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FYI: Elon Musk = Space Ed Gein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The older he gets, the more he learns like Mussolini

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨✌️🌽✌️ ✊🌽✊ ✌️🌽✌️ ✊🌽✊⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so you can grill it without excess charring or using tinfoil.

  Actually, I don’t know if that’s the intent, but that’s why I’m happy they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If one were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t you just post a question asking about this and everyone answered either neutrally or with the smart cat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People can be ignorant and even sexist without being manosphere. Neither of those strikes me as super Joe Rogan or Ben Shapiro-ey.

  But yeah, we’re living in two separate worlds, and when a person ignores what half of us experience, it’s no different from a white person saying that black people just need to be polite to the police, the way they are. (As a teenager, I was regrettably that white person. But I’ve grown, and so can others in that situation)