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| bio | website | balpha.de |
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| location | Berlin, Germany | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | Mar 29 at 15:15 | |
| stats | profile views | 30 |
My name is Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe. I am Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00007, which is just a confusing way of saying that I work as a developer for Stack Exchange.
I am @balpha on Twitter. My blog's "about" page explains the origin of my user name.
I am the creator of Unicornify, the service that gives you these lovable creatures:
I also created Lyfe, a small library adding yield-based generators to JavaScript, and Not a Real Question, a little game that's played with data from various Stack Exchange sites.
I sometimes have a strange sense of humor, but I also like to explain things I fix, break, care about, or come up with.
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on How can I learn noun genders better? |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Wie kann man wissen, ob ein Verb trennbar ist? |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Gibt es andere übliche Märchenbeginnformeln neben “es war einmal”? |
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May 25 |
revised |
What can “passt schon” mean? added 1 characters in body |
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May 25 |
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What is the German equivalent of “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”? Ich wusste gar nicht, das zyklisches Jodeln bei akutem Ödipuskomplex hilft. Gibt's da Studien? |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Recommended news and culture streaming radio stations (auf Deutsch)? |
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May 25 |
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How can a native English speaker know when it is appropriate to use the polite (Sie) or the familiar (Du)? The "complicated avoidance maneuvers" under 2. are usually more awkward than the sitiuation itself. When someone asks me "Und, sind die Eltern aus dem Urlaub zurück?", this has such a strong connotation of "Uh-uh, duz ich jetzt oder siez ich?" that I tend to never use those. |
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May 25 |
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How can a native English speaker know when it is appropriate to use the polite (Sie) or the familiar (Du)? Two things about German IKEAs -- a) the people there will say "Sie" as well, it's just the posters and ads that say "du"; the sales people are Germans after all (they will also look at you weird if you pronounce Swedish furniture names correctly), and b) while Swedish has a "Sie" (called "ni"; same word as for "ihr"), it's hardly ever used; the global default in Sweden, if you will, is "Du". |
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May 25 |
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What is the German equivalent of “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”? @thei: Yes; that's the sentence used for the font previewer in German versions of Windows. |
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May 25 |
awarded | Teacher |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What is the correct way to denote a quotation in German? |
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May 25 |
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Gibt es andere übliche Märchenbeginnformeln neben “es war einmal”? added 18 characters in body |
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May 25 |
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What is the correct way to denote a quotation in German? deleted 6 characters in body |
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May 25 |
answered | Welche Eselsbrücken gibt es, um “dass” und “das” auseinander zu halten? |
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May 25 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Selbständig vs. selbstständig |
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May 24 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What are good online dictionaries for translation between German and English? |
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May 24 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on German student preparing for travel abroad |
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May 24 |
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Selbständig vs. selbstständig Until the orthography reform, one "st" was indeed the correct way to spell it. |
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May 24 |
awarded | Editor |
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May 24 |
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Gibt es ein eigenes Wort für beschmutztes Geschirr? added 2 characters in body; edited title |
