What The Fuck Do We Do Now?

[Free]

See, my years of using Duolingo may pay off yet.

I already have the Metric thing covered from Engineering School.

most of us

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Except for the fact most of us don't speak any European languages, are are not even a bit apologetic about that. Also, the metric system.

Have you tried slower and louder?

 

[Free]

Have you tried slower and louder?

You have solved the problem!

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

I'd love to get the hell out of this country, but alas, everyone I love is here.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I'd love to get the hell out of this country, but alas, everyone I love is here.

I could leave the u.s. AND move closer to my parents, but Mexico South of AZ is not a safe place to be.

 

[Soen Eber]

I would honestly love to move to Norway a d from everything I can see about the country, I would probably fit in very well there.



See, my years of using Duolingo may pay off yet.

I already have the Metric thing covered from Engineering School.

And it's really easy to spend a week's pay in a day there!

 

[Soen Eber]

Except for the fact most of us don't speak any European languages, are are not even a bit apologetic about that. Also, the metric system.

Step 1: Learn one hundred German words
Step 2: Move to Germany
Step 3: Try asking a question in German
Step 4: Get an answer in perfect English
SUCCESS!!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Step 1: Learn one hundred German words
Step 2: Move to Germany
Step 3: Try asking a question in German
Step 4: Get an answer in perfect English
SUCCESS!!

Same social mechanics in Quebec.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

You have solved the problem!

You understood my bois-boisson story. Try France.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Italy is still offering 1 Euro houses by the way if you want to get your hands dirty and sink money into an old home.

Homepage

Buy your new home in Sicily with only 1€

www.case1euro.it

 

[Noodles]

Step 1: Learn one hundred German words
Step 2: Move to Germany
Step 3: Try asking a question in German
Step 4: Get an answer in perfect English
SUCCESS!!

The secret is, no one anywhere actually knows German, they just know 100 words of it plus English, but no one wants to admit it because they assume they are the only one.

 

[Sid]

The only thing one needs to know in German is how to order "Ein Maß Bier, bitte." (Best in a Biergarten).
Cheers. Zum Wohl.

 

[Casey Pelous]

The secret is, no one anywhere actually knows German, they just know 100 words of it plus English, but no one wants to admit it because they assume they are the only one.

This is pretty much what I have always suspected.

As is so often the case, Mark Twain had some amusing thoughts on what he termed The Awful German Language:

Now here is a sentence from a popular and excellent German novel -- which has a slight parenthesis in it. I will make a perfectly literal translation, and throw in the parenthesis-marks and some hyphens for the assistance of the reader -- though in the original there are no parenthesismarks or hyphens, and the reader is left to flounder through to the remote verb the best way he can:

"But when he, upon the street, the (in-satin-and-silk-covered-now-very-unconstrained-after-the-newest-fashioned-dressed) government counselor's wife met," etc., etc. [1]

1. Wenn er aber auf der Strasse der in Sammt und Seide gehüllten jetzt sehr ungenirt nach der neusten Mode gekleideten Regierungsräthin begegnet.

That is from The Old Mamselle's Secret, by Mrs. Marlitt. And that sentence is constructed upon the most approved German model. You observe how far that verb is from the reader's base of operations; well, in a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all. Of course, then, the reader is left in a very exhausted and ignorant state.

We have the Parenthesis disease in our literature, too; and one may see cases of it every day in our books and newspapers: but with us it is the mark and sign of an unpracticed writer or a cloudy intellect, whereas with the Germans it is doubtless the mark and sign of a practiced pen and of the presence of that sort of luminous intellectual fog which stands for clearness among these people. For surely it is not clearness -- it necessarily can't be clearness. Even a jury would have penetration enough to discover that. A writer's ideas must be a good deal confused, a good deal out of line and sequence, when he starts out to say that a man met a counselor's wife in the street, and then right in the midst of this so simple undertaking halts these approaching people and makes them stand still until he jots down an inventory of the woman's dress. That is manifestly absurd. It reminds a person of those dentists who secure your instant and breathless interest in a tooth by taking a grip on it with the forceps, and then stand there and drawl through a tedious anecdote before they give the dreaded jerk. Parentheses in literature and dentistry are in bad taste.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The secret is, no one anywhere actually knows German, they just know 100 words of it plus English, but no one wants to admit it because they assume they are the only one.

But English is a Germanic language! Oh Goddess, I'm fucked!

 

[Soen Eber]

A bright note from 1978:

Democracy Demands Courage — Illinois Answers the Call

'Tyranny requires your fear, silence, and compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and don't let the "trag...

www.youtube.com

 

[Ellie]

We hope JD has the same effect on his boss.

 

[Free]

Reporting under the radar.

How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia

Trump has now admitted twice that he could bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, but says his lawyers are telling him not to. This was a very dumb move—and also a very revealing one.

newrepublic.com

He has now said it right out in the open—not once but twice. In two major interviews, President Donald Trump openly declared that he has the power to bring the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. And on both occasions, Trump said straight out that he is not doing so because administration lawyers have told him he doesn’t have to—or that he shouldn’t.

This has been widely seen as an admission that Trump is defying the Supreme Court, which has directed the administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Yes, it is that. But these two moments are also their own story. They offer a unique glimpse into the deep rot of bad faith infesting Trump and Stephen Miller’s broader project to expand the president’s removal powers into something extraordinarily vast and entirely unaccountable. They also show how Trump is inadvertently sabotaging his case against Abrego Garcia—and that broader project as well—with his bumbling incompetence.

“Bringing him back and retrying him wouldn’t bother me,” Trump told Time magazine, admitting that he has this option. “But I leave that decision to the lawyers. At this moment, they just don’t want to do that.”