Zompist Bboard Again

https://youtu.be/nHFrsFYMtqM?si=BifZ0CIUmuf4J_Na
Modern Mee music. It's really surprising how much the quality of these recordings has improved in the last years. Also, the subtitles are in Papua Indonesisn, which is fun.

Having lived in these parts of Germany for some years, I want to add to of my personal ideas on this: First, many people here have lived or have been raised by people who in a system that was not democratic. This fostered a certain distrust for the government even after the Wende. The AfD is profiti...

The German words "Eidechse" and "Echse" both mean "lizard". Well, English conflates the two senses of lizard. "Echse" is a general term for certain reptiles (Squamata or reptiles in general) that are neither snakes nor birds (and also not turtles/turtoises or...

We learned Wer-Fall, Wes(sen)-Fall, Wem-Fall, Wen-Fall in primary school in addition to the Latin names in elementary school. That's what I learnt, too. But what is the distinction you're trying to express with primary vs. elementary? Both normally translate German Grundschule (the first four years...

We learned Wer-Fall, Wes(sen)-Fall, Wem-Fall, Wen-Fall in primary school in addition to the Latin names in elementary school.

Maybe if you make a move with a piece and then slide part of the board? Then your opponent does the same. Otherwise I'm not sure how you would actually play it. Or you could either move a piece OR slide a section. The real question is, where should the blank section of the board start from in light...

German literature question: is there anyone here who likes the works of Bertold Brecht? And, if you do, could you explain to me what exactly you see in them? Because, back when I had to read some of his stuff in school, I had the impression that his plots were extremely simplistic, his characters w...

At least in Germany, parties have to work according to democratic principles internally. And since not many people want to go into politics, people can quickly rise to at least become members of the national parliament. We have (many?) people in our current parliament that joined their parties less...

At least in Germany, parties have to work according to democratic principles internally. And since not many people want to go into politics, people can quickly rise to at least become members of the national parliament. We have (many?) people in our current parliament that joined their parties less ...

In Indonesian (at least the varieties I hear) you can make them 'glow/light up' nyala or make them 'die' mati. nyala and mati are also used as more general terms for switching devices on or off.

It doesn't -- but why not loan it as /s/ then? For instance, Japanese tsunami is commonly pronounced with initial /s/ here. Maybe it's kind of like a hyperforeignism? So, you want to map initial <z> to something that sounds foreign - and initial /ts/ is dispreferred - so you map it to /z/ instead. ...

Maybe English does not like initial /ts/? It doesn't -- but why not loan it as /s/ then? For instance, Japanese tsunami is commonly pronounced with initial /s/ here. Maybe it's kind of like a hyperforeignism? So, you want to map initial <z> to something that sounds foreign - and initial /ts/ is dis...

Maybe English does not like initial /ts/?

Certain varieties of Siegerländisch sound foreign to me as they have an approxinant rhotic. Also, I have a neighbour whose German sounds slighlty off sometimes all the way to uncanny valley but I can't decide if it's dialectal coloring or a very sllight foreign accent.

It's der Blog /blOk/ for me, too, as well as der Vlog /flOk/. But we are basically from the same area, I guess.

Could also be because it ends in -a, which usually marks female proper names.

Wie weiss man welchen Genus Webseiten haben? Heisst es 'der, die oder das Wikipedia/Youtube/Facebook' usw? Und welchen Kasus verwendet man nach 'auf'? Heisst es 'auf der (fem. dat.) wunderschönen Youtube'? Oder 'auf das (neutr. akk.) wunderschöne Youtube'? Oder sonstwas? Haben alle Webseiten den gl...

One thing I noticed from listening to the song Nebel by Rammstein is that Till Lindemann pronounces the word geküsst as what sounds like gek [ø] sst to my ears. Note that while Till Lindemann sings in StG, I have heard things from Germans saying he pronounces it with a noticeable accent beyond mere...

One thing I noticed from listening to the song Nebel by Rammstein is that Till Lindemann pronounces the word geküsst as what sounds like gek [ø] sst to my ears. Note that while Till Lindemann sings in StG, I have heard things from Germans saying he pronounces it with a noticeable accent beyond mere...

Looking through Wiktionary, there are also several (or many?) entries that include a note like "The modern consonantism is Central and Low German", see here for example: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dunkel#German . I guess one could reinterpret this as saying that the change was not comp...