If I'm free to discuss what ever language quirk I'd want to, then let's talk about German nouns. How did they end up with three genders (die, das and der) for their nouns? English has none, French has two just like Swedish mostly has two but the Germans ended up with five.
For any English speakers unfamiliar with the concept of noun gender it's basically a way of grouping nouns. It commonly effects how they word works with other grammar. For example the German genders determine whether die, das or der should be used when English has the and it does, in a more convoluted way involving other grammar to, determine whether ein, eine, einen or einem should be used where English has a/an
Hela det där mötet är helt sinnessjukt. Nu är det bara och vänta på hur Europareagerar, men förhoppningsvis inser våra ledare att samarbeten med USA kring Ukraina är en mycket svår väg att gå
Yeap, I'm aware of the Denmark and Greenland situation but I was curious if Greenland had their own instance
Is there a instance for Greenland or is it covered by the danish instance?
German is weird in more ways, namely word ordering
Sie dürfen nicht ein Feuerzeug mit ins Flugzeug nehmen
You're not allowed to a fire stuff with you in flight stuff bring
But all languages are weird. Here's some french for you
qu'est-ce que c'est?
I don't have the knowledge needed to translate this properly but it's something like "wh'is-at what that is" (its the way they say "what is that")
And Swedish, my native language
I eftermiddags åt jag jordgubbar. Nu ska jag äta middag.
This after middle day ate i soil old men. Now I'm going to eat middle day. (This afternoon I ate strawberrys. Now I'm going to eat dinner)
Given that Swedish is my native language I'd also like to inform you that the English word "smorgasbord" is completely ridiculous. It's literally just the Swedish word "smörgåsdsbord" but without å and ö, so it's pronounced completely wrong. The word smörgås is however also a bit weird, it literally means "butter goose". So your English word smorgasbord means "butter goose table". Also window means wind eye, it's the old Swedish word "vindöga"
Common withdrawal symptoms for water include, but are no limited to, dehydration and imminent premature death
This is just bullshit. There's no way they'll keep milk from different cows separate just to be able to label the bottles
That seems like a fun project, I have myself written two interpreters/simulators and one compiler and it's a lot of fun. However, that's something you do for your self, without a ton of effort and dedication you won't make something useful
I'm going to spend Christmas Eve (the day that we celebrate Christmas in Sweden) with my family and cousins. I'd guess that'll be fine, however I don't know everyone that well so I'm not too excited for it
We have basic words for the numbers zero to three, so why not use them to count?
- None (0)
- Single (1)
- pair (2)
- Multiple (3+ but we'll use it as three)
So with those "digits" we can construct some numbers:
- Single
- pair
- Multiple
- Single nothing
- Single single
- Single pair
- Single multiple
- Pair of nothing
- Pair of singels
- Pair of pairs
And of course we can construct bigger numbers like: 42 = 4²×2+4¹×2+4⁰×2 = pair of pairs of pairs 128 = 4³×2 = pair of absolute complete nothinges For this last one I just use some adjectives to repeat the "nothing" as it looks really weird with multiple nothing in a row.
> The distance between Stockholm and Gothenburg is a single multiple of none multiple multiples
> Could I have a single multiple of bananas please?
And do believe that I, this random guy on the internet has a soul
I personally don't believe that I anyone else has a soul. From my standup I don't se any reason to believe that our consciousness and our so called "soul" would be any more then something our brain is making up.
Like just commenting a friendly joke, a compliment or something like that
This is revolutionising!!! This is the first time scientists have managed to separate out a single atom, encapsulated in a vacuum. This will allow amazing new technologies like, ehm small stuf mabey? This is Amazing!
I saw the opposite question asked here and thought it would be interesting to flip it on its head.
I can start. Linux can make arbitrary files executebel and windows (at the time I used it) could definitely not do that. ```sh printf "# /bin/bash\necho 'Hello world'" > HW.bash chmod +x ./HW.bash ./HW.bash
prints hello world
``` ^ something like that is just not possible on windows
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I've seen .: used two times now, and I really wonder what is? The first time I saw it was in an extract from the Swedish dictionary SAOL in NE. They used it something like this so: > History.: since year x
More lately I saw it used in this comment by @nodsocket@lemmy.world like so: > What make bikes so expensive? > >R.: The willing of people to buy them.
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What is this? Were does it come from? Should I use it?
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Edit: thanks for all the answers :). It turns out it was actually used for abbreviation in the dictionary, they wrote "hist." instead of "historia".
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