#german mention

[expensivemountaintea]

I love it when people use my native language in fanfics

As someone born in a non englisch speaking country i love it when i can understand the parts that are in my native language.

[morganbritton132]

Continuing a bit from this

Because that was a fluke, right?

Steve Harrington sat at their lunch table, asked a bunch of questions, and took notes as some sort of prank, right? It’s never going to happen again. Right?

But he’s there again today (“Fucking hell”) sitting at their table, waving them over when he spots them like, “I was thinking about that depression filter you told me about. Makes no sense.”

“It’s, uh…” Jeff tries, accepting Steve’s offered applesauce. “It’s a perception filter.”

“Ohhh, that makes more sense.”

Steve opens his notebook, marks something out, and writes over it. He looks up like, “About this guy Griffon.”

And that’s how it goes. Steve asks questions. They provide answers. They realize that Steve must have some hearing loss in his left ear and adjust to that. Steve cracks a joke they don’t understand and adjusts to them, and it’s…fun.

Gareth accidentally elbows Steve in the ribs and Steve winces hard because his ribs are still fucked up from the fight. They all think this is over now and things will go back to normal but Steve…apologizes?? For being weird??? To weirdos?

“Oh, god,” Jeff says after lunch, watching Steve and Grant walk off in the same direction. “We have to keep him.”

Gareth sighs, “Eddie is going to hate this.”

[itsnevssin]

As much as I love Kurt’s weird old time German, I think it’s time to let him dive into some modern slang

little translation here hehe

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1. It’s a Turkish German mix and means something like “that’s a real crisis” or “I swear this is a crisis” but it’s mostly used situations that are only inconvenient.

2. “Ok, crass.” - as in “ok that’s extreme”, often used when in shock, sarcastic or idk it’s used a lot.

3. “If you do that, you get -100 aura points. I shit you not.”

4. gottlos = godless, but in a wicked way. It’s not really used in a religious sense for slang and a lot of things can be gottlos. One chicken nugget less than the package said? That’s really just gottlos.

Diggah = German word for ‘dude’ or ‘friend’, it comes from ‘dicker Freund’ which means “very close friend”

5. Läuft bei dir! = it’s going well for you! But also “You did it!” - can also be used sarcastically when Logan lost one shoe and now has to wobble around in one wet sock. Läuft bei dir …

6. Ich warte hier wie so ein Dulli! - that sentence comes from a voicemail that’s very dear to me lmao, it means “I’m waiting here looking like an idiot.”

[fascinationstreetmp3]

the lamb smiling up at the wolf with unsettling passivity etc etc

[sprachgefuehle]

The true danger of learning Spanish that no one ever warns you of is that you might end up speaking a dialect where they add the diminuitive -ito and -ita to every word because you might end up using that in other languages as well.

This post is sponsored by me, an adult in their late twenties, casually and without a hint of irony dropping into a conversation with other adults the sentence "I saw some birdies at the lakey" in German.

[itsagrummel]

just a normal day on german twitter with this tweet by El Hotzo

Harry Potter:

arrogant celeb

goes to a posh school in a castle in England

did not learn something proper

needed 7 books to kill the villain

Krabat:

normal dude

works at a mill in Lusatia

based apprenticeship as a miller

1 book, quick work with the villain

[yourdailyqueer]

Hans Scholl (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 22 September 1918 

RIP: 22 February 1943

Ethnicity: White - German

Occupation: Soldier, medic, activist, student

Note 1: One of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The White Rose's legacy has been considered significant by many historical commentators, both as a demonstration of exemplary spiritual courage, and as a well-documented case of social dissent in a time of violent repression, censorship, and pressure to conform.

Note 2: In 2003, Germans were invited to participate in Unsere Besten (Our Best), a nationwide competition to choose the top ten most important Germans of all time. Voters under the age of 40 helped Scholl and his sisters to finish in fourth place. If the votes of young viewers alone had been counted, Sophie and Hans Scholl would have been ranked first.

[yuri-practitioner]

Sprechen von Deutschland jaaaa

Das ist wirklich cool weil meine Austauschschwester (ich weiß nicht lol) es schwer findet Englisch du lesen während sie sich ein Video ansieht. Ich werde ihr dieses schicken‼️

Aber deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache und ich spreche es schrecklich lol 😭

I've seen some people on the Tumblr milgram tag promoting non-english and non-japanese milgram cover creators and as somebody learning German, I wanna put my two cents in and recommend that y'all check out Kasuka's covers if any of y'all speak, learn, want to learn German or are just willing to explore this series in other languages in general. Their lyrics as well as their voice are amazing and they've even done German-language analysis pieces of the songs and characters! My favorites of theirs are their half and Backdraft covers and they also do other Vocaloid and J-pop songs if you're also into that.

[ghostofreach]

Seeing all these more realistic and interesting interpretations of the Mondstadt cast drawing more from actual Central European culture, it would kind of be interesting to see the Mondstadt adventurers (Fischl and Bennett) have a more Landsknecht style of dress.

Like, adventurers=mercenaries, and being allowed the most colorful and outlandish clothes because they might have a shorter life than others.

YOU ARE SO GOATED FOR THIS IDEA….omg. Bennett definitely hogs all the bright colors while Fischl has the more dramatic silhouette.

Had to give Fischl a bit of French influence bc I feel like she would love Fontainian theater.

[batarangsoundsdumb]

i know at this point i shouldn't be surprised at nationalism- but why is it so obvious in the wikipedia/google intro blurb of bicultural & multicultural celebrities.

[random-fun-polls]

[How much countries/cultures do you include in your ethnicity?]

E.g. if someone casually asks your ethnicity/what you are, how much cultures do you usually say you have ties to, or list?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6+

My answer varies/I don't answer/answer only to specific ppl

Other

Examples: your heritage extends to 5 cultures, but you state 2 since your immediate family is immediately from 2

Your heritage is primarily from 1 culture with distant ties to other cultures, so you either state that 1 culture or state those other cultures

You only answer to certain people, deferring the question if a stranger or someone outside your culture/s asks, or you answer differently each time

[o-craven-canto]

-- The History of Louis Pasteur, 1936

[schumi-nadal]

Who's your greatest opponent?

Fabio: Even if Pecco and I fought for the championship in 2021 and 2022. In 2019, I had two very nice battles with Marc. [giggles] Unfortunately, I lost both but I think that they helped me to grow up as a rider.

[moonlightmagical]

okay lena. sure lena. what did you do to klaus tho?

[ganondoodle]

was at my sisters house to watch the cats a bit and played some botw again after a long time, spent an hour running around phirone (faron) and checking out all the cool sonau (zonai) stuff and i felt a wave of sadness wash over me, those ruins there feel so ... heavy with story, with sadness of tragedy, with the thrill of the unkown, yet its revealed to be nothing in totk, i honestly dont feel like the sonau of botw and of totk are at all releated tbh, theres like, NO design overlap besides sometimes some dragon-like figures that feel more like they put them into totk just to have some connection at all-

the botw sonau ruins are all full of curves hewn into dark stone with red accents, theres swirls and snakes everywhere, appropriately withered by time and weather- it was already a stupid idea to replace the shiekah tech with literally another ancient highly advanced civilaztion, but then to not even make them look or feel at all connected to the little things that were there?? totk sonau is white stone and gold and green, its all extremely angular and clean cut, together with weird hologram shit that reads, somehow, as both unfittingly techy to everything else while also neither mechnical nor magical

its fucking bonkers, i know they put some totk sonau bullshit into some of the ruins in totk, like the main ones in phirone but like, especially in that case with the direct comparison its so jarring and artificial, and i hate the excuse of "hylians built those different looking buildings as a monument to the sonau", like we needed more shitty excuses for bad writing decisions- the ancient AND current hylian stuff aligns more with totk sonau stuff, why would they adopt a completely different style to built shit around actual sonau stuff that somehow also looks like it was abandoned like, 50 years, 100 years ago, not over TEN THOUSAND years ago, both the botw sonau ruins and the shiekah tech look more ancient than anything totk sonau

and what for??? i imagine more botw sonau style ruins and like, thats entirely possible, why make it sth utterly different and give it a shitty excuse?? its so unnecessary?? like okay make the wheels out of withered stone hanging together like clumps by invisible magic like how the iwaroks (the .. stone enemy) works- i still would like it sicne i dont like the whole building thing in botws world, but at least it would feel like truly magic bs and fit into the design of botw sonau (even though im still not over NOTHING ever hinting that they were one step away from spaceships hologram aliens, the refusal to work with the stuff they themselves have put into their games drives me up a wall, YOU PUT IT THERE! DO SOMETHIGN WITH IT!)

just to put some modern tech into it? was it worth it?? (no)- and there i could even go on about how much i hate the 'tech' design too, its too little mechanical to be called 'tech' but too modern tech like to call it 'magic', (a balance which the shiekah tech did tremendously well imo) i keep being impressed with how conflicting and incoherent design and story can be in this one single overpriced game

(the reason them making it so modern techy looking was so players would immediately know what it was apparently and i just ... doesnt that make it more boring? like instead of the shiekah stone(slate) they just put a flip phone with numbered buttons and all and give it a vaguely stone texture? instead of like, a guardian with its spider legs and strange creepy design, just put a fucking tank there??? (and like, in a way i feel like the fact that they still tried to not make it look too modern by putting that green texture on it and like, a face here and there, makes it WORSE, a bad cover up is worse to me than none at all, like a shitty explanation can make sth worse than no explanation at all *ahem* literally every interview they did >:C )

also i dont know how you could even design a fan so it doesnt look like a fan? you dont need to put in literal car wheels with suspension and all in there to make it clear its a wheel bc how would you even design a wheel so it doesnt read like a wheel???

since when did they get so anxious about players not understanding something?? the whole series was built on puzzles of varying difficulty, whats with the sudden loss in trust in the player?? botw was already pretty easy but in totk the whole game treats you like you cant think or remember sth for more than 30 seconds to the point it gets actively agonizing to play through- the same two sentences of unimportant info repeated and shown to your face over and over, both in story and gameplay- and even with their immediately readable design choices for the sonau 'tech' they made half teh shrines either sloggingly slow tutorials or one puzzle shrines that are dedicated to teach you how the obvious thing works when you really learn it all on the literal tutorial island AND its obvious from the start BECAUSE THEY WANTED IT TO BE OBVIOUS!! its fun to figure things out and try stuff, its no fun to have a step by step guide glued to your forehead at all times especially when its so obvious, yes thanks for teaching me that a literal fire hydrant spits out water!! wow! never thought about that! thanks for telling me it 5 times too!! (even if it annoys me that they can just do that when not connected to the ground .. would have been more fun to make puzzle with if they were,,), its part of why i felt like the game was so condescending or outright laughing at me-

why even try to teach me how a fan works over and over when like, there arent even any creative things you can do with it in a reasonable amount of time and its never needed or incentivised either bc the game just hands you the literal solution or at the very least give you the four parts or what that you need to make what you need, like pulling apart two bricks of baby lego in fornt of a toddler to see if they can put them back together once you hand it to them

and dont come at me with the "its for kids" argument, the old games were too and theres alot of stages of 'kid', they arent stupid either and nintendo should know that they have alot of adult fans too, it doesnt need to be dark souls and its allowed to have easy stuff in there but the fact that it never gets any more challenging is the problem, yes part of the fun in games can be making your own rules and messing around but it really shouldnt be controversial to want a 70 bucks game to offer a fun experience without you having to make it fun all on your own (i for one dont enjoy spending 30 minutes glueing togehter a tank with ear shattering lasers just to inefficiently beat up 3 bokblins i could just swing my sword at for a few seconds instead and are not worth the materials spend anyway)

in the end it would have been less immersion breaking and more fun if they straight up put a honda civic into the game you can summon anywhere at no cost (hmmmm where did they just do it before hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) and transforms like a batmobile to fly around in rather than the weird sonau nuts and bolts hassle you have to put up with, costs stuff, can waste hours of your time and despawn as soon as you look away from it unless you want to make le funny tiktok videos i guess

its such a waste too bc the mechanic itself IS impressive, but its utterly missplaced in this game, it would have needed its own, truly own, game built around it, placing it in botws world is like dumping a bunch of knock off brand toys into a world that felt believable and meaningful turning it to feel like its really just a game for you to mess around in, never has a game felt more gamey to me and it SUCKS to have that magic pulled away like that, silly me for letting them make me care about it i guess

maybe its petty but as someone how really cares alot about design stuff, both visually and gameplay wise, it makes me furious to think about (as you can tell) .. also hyperfixation go brrrrrrr

(this is obviously my view on it, writing this to get it out, not to argue, i believe i have heard all the arguments already anyway and by this point all that is left is just insulting me directly lol)

[echotunes]

hugo said he was first asked to join qsmp at the beginning of may last year (he checked the message date it was may 3rd), but declined at the time because there were no other german-speaking CCs on the server so it was a scary prospect. he's also said other german speakers had also been asked but nobody accepted, likely for similar reasons. but now that he's joined he kind of regrets not having accepted sooner because he thinks the server is really cool