#i dont wanna get into too much details bc I'm honestly embarrassed about it

[notsodailycake]

Hello what happened to home is where Freddy is ? Was it cancelled? If not that’s wonderful if yes thank you for everything

Hello there

So well, i can understand why you think so, but no it isn't cancelled, i just haven't been able to work on it recently unfortunately. I plan to bring it back soon, but things have been hard irl

It will probably be a while until i can fully get back on it, i plan on making a few pages in advance before i start posting it again

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I dont think youve gotten an ask like this before since this is an om! blog and all and this is possibly gonna sound weird or dumb of me to ask a german native this, but how hard is your grammar really?

Reason (1-1) for my question: languages are my guilty pleasure. I'm only fluent in arabic and english rn but I wanna learn as much as I can, even if just basic facts, not a language itself

Reason (1-2): people learning german insist that the grammar is "brutal" especially for english-speakers but frankly it kinda feels that theres exaggeration or a "trend" along the lines of "german grammar is impossible because everyone says so" even if it's not THAT gory, yk?

Any new language IS gonna be hard at first- thats a given. And some languages like arabic / chinese / japanese / korean are listed at the top for difficulty. Ik that german grammar has many many rules and has exceptions... Linguistic sites say thats a reason for its complexity and the majority of learners agree with "yeah it's too difficult"

But tbh?? Idk

At this point it feels like a stereotype that was based off facts at first but then got negatively exaggerated?? I think yes german grammar is more "detailed" than the english norm / other grammar rules but it isnt monstrous like whats being often said and spread about it?

Thats why I wanna hear an authentic objective thought on this from a german if you dont mind🎤

hey there!

i really don't think German is one of the most difficult languages to learn. if you're an english native speaker the things you might struggle the most with are:

- pronunciation (harsher sounds, less soft than english, äöü sounds. when you have someone who can correct you this isn't as difficult to learn)

- grammar (lots of rules and lots of exceptions as well. words are gendered with der, die, das /feminine, masculine, neutral. also learning how to decline words can be tricky as well, but i think that just comes down to memorisation and practice)

- the sheer volume of vocabulary. a lot of words are HIGHLY specific (which is the fun part to be honest. there's lots of german words that are difficult to translate to english bc of this. an example would be the German word "doch" which is something similar to "yes it is" or "is not, is too")

i can imagine the difficulty level might be similar to learning french (at least from what i can compare). honestly i can only judge this so far, at work i do have lots of people around me who are just starting to learn the language, these are a few things that i saw them struggle with as well.

i think it mostly comes down to dedication and interest. you do have to put in a lot of effort, but you obviously have to do that for every language.

i think German gets a bad rep for sounding harsh and brutal, but i think it sounds quite beautiful. here's a little comp of German words i appreciate.

Nickerchen - nap

Maus - literally means mouse, but more recently has become youth slang. you can call someone "eine süße Maus" / literally a cute mouse / when they did something nice for example. Maus is originally gendered female = die Maus, but is used in a gn way like this. Meine Follower sind zum Beispiel richtig süße Mäuse 🥰

also used as an adjective (mausig)

Fremdschämen - being embarrassed for someone else. Wenn ich sehe, dass Lucifer redet als hätte er drei Wörterbücher verschluckt, schäme ich mich fremd.

unschön - unattractive, unpleasant. this one isn't special but it's my morally acceptable way of saying "well that fucking sucked" at work. Das ist jetzt aber unschön verlaufen.

so yeah! if you want to learn it don't let the naysayers stop you!

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Thank you so much for responding to my ask and in such a detailed way. Most people barely care enough to write a sentence that sounds like they're fed up for some reason, so I'm not quite sure about that. But thank you. I know this is another annoying question, but were there any slightly negative displays of "affection" or actions towards Zayn, like when a fan threw a Zayn cut-out head on stage and Harry kicked it off (😭) or moments where it looked like they didn't miss him? I just don't like

to delusion myself like I used to, and staying in some fantasy world where I just entertain myself with the thought that they all missed him so much, when there’s also a sad possibility that they got even closer and better without him or felt too many negative feelings to even miss him, or even worse simply didn’t get along that well with him in the first place (we honestly don’t know). This sounds terrible and I know they’re all close, but do you think when Zayn left that Louis was closer with Liam etc. and when Zayn left he probably didn’t miss him as much because he got along very well with the other guys? I thought I remembered Louis saying a few times when asked about Zayn (although to be fair it sounded kind of fake and like he was told to say it) that they were better without Zayn because they’re all much closer now or something which makes me sad bc while it’s great that they apparently got much closer, I also always thought that Louis and Zayn were just that bit closer because, let’s face face it, not all of your friends are going to be equal. You always, at least for me, connect with and get along better with someone else, not that you don’t get along with the others, but every friend i get along with in different amounts. Do you think Louis genuinely meant that or do you think he really did miss Zayn a lot and was even closer with him? Sorry, I also forgot another moment - where they were asked about tattoos and I think the question was about if they regretted it and Harry says, without knowing, something about how he’d never do something embarrassing like getting a Ying Yang tattoo and even mocks it with some accent without even meaning to, and Louis starts laughing hard and Harry doesn’t get it, and then suddenly realizes and starts laughing and Louis says something like “oh you get it now” and they kind of are subtly making fun of Zayn because Zayn got a Ying Yang tattoo :/ It makes me upset because I can’t tell if Louis was actually making fun of Zayn in that way when you dislike someone and mock them or in a friend way or in a way like he was just laughing at the irony of what Harry said without even knowing? Idk, it seems negative and I don’t want to believe they made fun of him and to think there are other moments too, some maybe we didn’t even catch.

I’m gonna be honest, sugarplum…This is a slightly odd request, to me…hahaha. But I get what you mean, and sure, I guess there were some less than stellar moments of them being a little petty too. I think in the grand scheme of things, its never been meant with actual malice, but rather trying to make light of a situation they all (Zayn included) had to bob and weave through. The press, and admittedly, some of us fans, wanted to hear them mention Zayn to indicate they were somewhat okay, but the press sometimes didn’t present it as kindly or innocently as they could. Some wanted to drum up drama for the 1D vs Zayn press stories. But ultimately, I didn’t think of it too much, because I feel like it just sours a good mood. And I think their friendship extended far longer than some petty off-handed comment they made here or there.

But, you asked for certain moments, so ill give you the few I can think of. I don’t really want to draw too much negative attention here, because anybody who knows me knows in absolute ot5 trash, and I think like any good friendship they can work things out and talk things through what upset them. So DONT look at these and make a definitive opinion, when we don’t know what was said and apologized later on. They’ve had plenty of time to reflect on their mistakes and grow from their darker, les honorable moments. I still think they could work things out as friends, despite everything.

You’ve already mentioned the cardboard cutout and yin-yang thing, two things of which I’ve also heard alternative takes on it. I didn’t see a clear shot of Harry kicking it until now,

but even then, it still doesn’t look out of the realm of possibility that he was simply trying to clear the stage. To me, even if he did do it intentionally, he doesn’t seem to be doing it with any aggression, so I don’t think it was as malicious as it was first made out to be. What would you have done in that situation yourself? Its tricky to imagine how you’d navigate through that. The second moment being the yin-yang thing.

Which, fair enough, does sound a little petty. I wont say it doesn’t. BUT, that weekend before this interview, the boys had gone back to London to do a performance at the Royal Variety Performance, in which Jack Whitehall (also a friend of harry) later walked out on stage dressed up like Harry, wearing a wig and tons of silly random black and white tattoos, to show how randomly tattooed Harry Styles really is, the dork…

If you look at his abdomen, to the right, there’s Jack as “Harry Styles” with a yin-yang tattoo. So, was it about Zayn? Maybe. Was it about this? Who knows. I’m not siding one way or another. I’m just giving two sides to the things I’ve read. If you think they're ‘reaches’, so be it. I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. The other moments I seem to remember were just one or two where…

Some may say he was being shady, other might say he was simply trying to diffuse the awkward tension and make light of the situation by cracking a joke, as iffy as that may be. I don’t know what H’s intentions were, but its in the past. I’m not here to drive up drama again, which may result anyway from a post like this. But just know I have no interest in hearing any shit about either side. I’m only answering this for the sake of getting it out of the way and answered for you. I don’t wanna hear Zayn slander, Harry slander, or Louis slander. Not my blog’s interest. That’s that. They’ve moved on and grown. Some even reconnecting. Friendship can be wildly unpredictable.

Anywho, about you wondering whether Louis found a shift in becoming closer to another boy like Liam after Zayn left, I don’t think he was actively trying to push Zayn out of his life. At that time, Zayn himself was trying to distance himself from everyone, not just his bandmates, but everyone. He needed some alone time to get in his head, so Louis and the boys let him have that. Its no surprise Louis was closest to Zayn

and even when he *could have* slipped up and talked shit, he didn’t. When he was asked on air if Drag Me Down was about Zayn ‘draggin them down’, Louis very smoothly called them out on their shit.  “Are you trying to look for some kind of controversial answer here? You’re not getting it! The song is not about that obviously.”

So…as much as there could have been petty comments from Louis, he actually maintained a pretty decent attitude through the press wanting to pull the drama out of him.

You (slightly) kill me with these long asks, my dear, but I appreciate your interest in even visiting my blog. So, thank you. I hope this answer suffices. I’m sure people will make unwarranted comments nonetheless, just remember I’m not interested in any drama or slander on my blog. This is a no-drama zone, ladies and gents and other fellow humans.