Billare

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Interested dilettante.

Anyone interested, do think of supporting the Linguistics and History proposals.

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Jun 1	awarded	Yearling
Apr 17	awarded	Nice Question
Jul 5	accepted	Does the German language have a Shakespeare?
Jul 1	awarded	Nice Question
Jul 1	accepted	What are some names, colloquial or otherwise, for the “Thirty Years War” in German?
Jun 30	asked	What are some names, colloquial or otherwise, for the “Thirty Years War” in German?
Jun 30	asked	Does the German language have a Shakespeare?
Jun 21	awarded	Nice Question
Jun 5	accepted	Is “Lebensraum” a taboo word in German because of an association with Hitler and the Nazis?
Jun 4	revised	Is “Lebensraum” a taboo word in German because of an association with Hitler and the Nazis? edited tags
Jun 4	comment	Is “Lebensraum” a taboo word in German because of an association with Hitler and the Nazis? @Johannes Schaub It is strongly associated with Hitler's imperialist policies w.r.t. Poland and Czechoslovakia in the mind of this non-native speaker.
Jun 4	comment	Is “Lebensraum” a taboo word in German because of an association with Hitler and the Nazis? Is there a taboo tag? "Political-correctness" is the only tag I could think of closest to it.
Jun 4	asked	Is “Lebensraum” a taboo word in German because of an association with Hitler and the Nazis?
Jun 4	awarded	Critic
Jun 4	awarded	Scholar
Jun 4	accepted	Is there an equivalent prestige dialect of German in the same way Received Pronunciation is to English? If so, how did it come about?
Jun 3	comment	Is there an equivalent prestige dialect of German in the same way Received Pronunciation is to English? If so, how did it come about? @misterben I disagree with you entirely; feigning from the appearance of classism is not the same thing as the departing of prestige from RP. But no matter; since you seem to know some about it, you might want have a go at this question, if you'd like.
Jun 2	comment	Is there an equivalent prestige dialect of German in the same way Received Pronunciation is to English? If so, how did it come about? Is there any reason in particular that Hannover is the seat of this prestige accent?
Jun 2	awarded	Student
Jun 2	asked	Is there an equivalent prestige dialect of German in the same way Received Pronunciation is to English? If so, how did it come about?