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| location | Lübeck, Germany | |
| age | 30 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | May 8 at 16:12 | |
| stats | profile views | 120 |
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Nov 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 30 |
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What to say after someone sneezes? @celtschk: Yes, and...? Disney is also dead, yet releases movies every year... |
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Oct 21 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 9 |
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To which extent should repetitions of “der”, “die” and “das” be avoided? @AlexanderKosubek: Es klingt recht umständlich. Falsch ist es nicht. Abgesehen davon, dass es eher finden statt denken sein sollte ;) |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Jul 25 |
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What do you call a “Questions & Answers site” (Q&A) in German? @celtschk: Sounds kind of strange to me too, but the similarity makes it easily recognizable. "Jemandem Rede und Antwort stehen" means to answer all questions, so it's already close, and it seems that "Jemandem Frage und Antwort stehen" is already in use as a derivate of the former, just like Takkat said. |
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Jul 25 |
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Is “wir feiern mit euch mit” correct? I think this qualifies as "social skills of a thermonuclear device", especially the first paragraph, unless you're trying to be sarcastic, but then it's simply not funny. Did you ever meet someone who would write an invitation like that and actually mean what you suggested? I agree that there may be better alternatives, like the one 0x6d64 suggested, but that doesn't make the original sentence having such a mean meaning. Never attribute to malice what may just be colloquial usage. |
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Jul 25 |
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Is “wir feiern mit euch mit” correct? I think the verb is really "mitfeiern", and the other two mits are just additional information. Maybe it's because I'm from the North, to me the double mit doesn't sound awkward. Of course, the solution @0x6d64 provided is a nice alternative. |
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Jul 25 |
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For a foreigner in Switzerland, how much practical value is there in being able to speak German? I visited Lausanne (French part of Switzerland) and my experience was that German was preferred to English. For example, in the hotel I talked French to the receptionist, and since my friends looked like not understanding anything, the receptionist switched to English. Then she saw that we're from Germany and switched to German (with a very slight cute French accent (; ) and said that that's much better than having to talk English. |
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Jul 25 |
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How is “Parameter” pronounced? @HubertSchölnast: Note that I'm not calling you definitely wrong. But saying "Fact is: X" doesn't make X a fact, and saying that all the given sources are wrong doesn't make them actually wrong, unless you have at least one serious source that says so (and then we have a problem, since we have contradicting sources). |
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Jul 25 |
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How is “Parameter” pronounced? @HubertSchölnast: Cannot agree with your justification. Just because there are many people who pronounce it differently doesn't make it right. Many people also say "diesen Jahres" and yet it's wrong. I'm also in a field where the word "Parameter" is used very often (building automation), and all people agree that "ParAmeter" is correct. One of our largest customers is from Austria and also pronounces it like this. But then, there are also people who think that "Schraubendreher" is the correct word for screw driver. Anyway it is not nice to call someone wrong without backing up your claim. |
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Jul 5 |
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Verwendet man Abkürzungen in (technischen) Texten? @Em1: Du hast mich noch nie tippen sehen, sonst kämst du nicht auf dergestalt sonderbare Gedanken. Ich schreibe grundsätzlich alles aus und bin dabei trotzdem schneller als die Abkürzer - im Code wie in Dokumentation ;) Allerdings kann ich dir insofern Recht geben, als dass ich auch davon ausgehe, dass es typische Softwareentwicklerfaulheit ist, alles abzukürzen... |
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Jul 4 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jul 2 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jun 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 26 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 16 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
