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- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 hours ago:
Do they still feel slimy if they’re finely diced? I love the taste but hate the texture of mushrooms, and mincing them to incorporate into a dish is the best of both worlds for me.
- Comment on It's the truth! 3 hours ago:
You mean like how chamomile isn’t tea? Because I probably call chamomile broth “tea” 100% of the time. Tea for me is anything steeped in muslin in boiling or near boiling water that you might sweeten
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 hours ago:
I’m also not big on tea, but rooibos tastes like essence of baked goods to me
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 hours ago:
Or it’s delicious, store brand rooibos
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 10 hours ago:
People are talking about how smartphones didn’t have those features at first, but I just carried around a 2 language dictionary when I was traveling before translation apps were a thing. I’m not sure if they’re exactly the same everywhere, but I also always found reading an atlas/map to transfer pretty easily from one country to another (across North America and Europe, so there could be much greater variation in the world than I saw).
It sounds harder and it was, but only a little. You already knew how to read maps and at least you didn’t have to worry about a battery.
- Comment on Funny how we all do THIS 1 day ago:
The weirdest part is how as soon as I decided to give up and wear comfy, ugly (to me) clothes, they came back in style. I straight up started wearing my dad’s old clothes (I’m afab, maybe an egg, but I definitely read as a woman to others) and long socks (in the cooler months- part of getting older for me is that things start to ache when they get cold), which I felt a little insecure about. Then somehow shortly thereafter the kids in my college town started doing it too. I’m glad younger women don’t feel like they have to wear all the uncomfortable stuff I did though, it’s just a little surprising.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 day ago:
You love to see an Octavia Butler reference
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 2 days ago:
I was once given cocaine eye drops in a hospital though (it’s a combined vasoconstrictor and analgesic, which makes it good for facial injuries that tend to hurt and swell/bleed a lot). Just because something can have a clinical use case doesn’t make it safe for anyone to use it regularly.
- Comment on Was board so I made my own Nativity scene 6 days ago:
- Comment on Was board so I made my own Nativity scene 6 days ago:
Ehh, Jesus isn’t a super uncommon name.
When I was a little kid, we got a Christmas card from the newspaper delivery boy (I swear I’m not that old, but that sounds ancient), signed “Jesus.” My mom was a devout Catholic and got offended at what she saw as tip-motivated blasphemy. My dad let her cook for a bit, until she made to call the newspaper, then he delicately suggested that it was probably pronounced with an “h” sound. My mom probably sounds pretty unpleasant from this anecdote so far, but she laughed her ass off at herself for not thinking about that possibility and felt very sheepish about it.
- Comment on 102% 6 days ago:
0.5% strongly approve, rounds up to 1%. 39.5% somewhat approve, rounds up to 40%. The proportion of people who, to varying degrees, approve is then listed as 41%, because otherwise people would see it as them saying 1+40=40.
People are going to say they don’t understand math either way, so they just need to pick a convention and stick to it.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 6 days ago:
To be fair, they’re not entirely equivalent. I wouldn’t bristle at all at being called “an American,” but I would never call someone “a Chinese.” In the plural form with a definite article, it doesn’t feel as bad, but I’d probably prefer to say “Chinese people,” whereas “American people” feels a little clunky, though it’s probably the best option if you want to keep both terms the same.
I don’t think this is necessarily a racist thing though, because I’d probably tend to say “the English/ french/ spanish” and “Guatemalans/ Nigerians/ Tibetans.” Demonyms are definitely a weird area of language that feels biased when you see a direct comparison though.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 6 days ago:
Okay, wow. Did you know that the Nazis also had pet peeves? You probably even love your dog and dislike indoor smoking, just like hitler.
/j I’m sorry if this actually distresses you.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 6 days ago:
It’s definitely too strong a (sweet) flavor for me, but I just dislike adding sweet sauce to savory things. I also find barbecue and teriyaki sauce unpleasant for the same reason.
Chilies and spices are fine by me though, and tbf, I wouldn’t ever describe ketchup as spicy.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 6 days ago:
Colcannon is food of the gods and while you need to cook kale a little longer than standard cabbage or other greens for it, it’s a perfectly valid variant.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Americans might do better on average at Ancient Greek geography than Ancient Greeks would at American geography, but it’d be close.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 1 week ago:
- The age is 13, somehow.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
They will ask that, but there’s often space to explain because of things like this and political prisoners. I’m not sure how Canada’s forms work and if he was convicted of something closer to selling multiple pounds to minors than simple possession*, that probably wouldn’t fly no matter what, but it’s definitely worth a shot.
*intent to sell is also determined very differently in different countries- in Germany, for example, having a scale stored with your supply or having multiple strains of weed in separate bags would not bump you up to intent to sell, but it does in the US
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
Doritos did actually buy Taco Bell, in a sense.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 1 week ago:
Even a country where weed is legal?
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 week ago:
Your point stands, but 2019 was more than five years ago
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Tbh, I don’t think there is a good app alternative and my priority would be moving somewhere where I can do my own grocery shopping. You don’t need a car if you’re close enough to go twice a week. I know it’s not easy, but that would be what I was working towards. You’re paying a serious premium with things like instacart even before you get to the delivery.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
You know your dad better than I do, but the vast majority of parents don’t want to hear those. It would hurt my father quite a bit emotionally to have to hear about the times that he wasn’t there to protect me (he was an incredibly present father, nothing to do with being a deadbeat).
- Comment on The past was not that cute 2 weeks ago:
Her mother wanted her to have a different life, I can imagine she was intentionally kept out of it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Leeta’s very into Rom.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 2 weeks ago:
Now you just sound like you’re from Delaware
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but it worked
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.