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There is something gloriously petty and powerful about telling a dickhead that their behavior has resulted in them being demoted from one grammatical form to another. gently caress Du, du bist ein Sie!
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Yeah, not sure it's worth keeping the whole system for moments like that but it's not a bad argument for it
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Someone in one of these threads was saying how Shakespeare would have dudes switch from formal you when they're on good terms and then informal thou when they're hurling insults. I'm still constantly confused by tu and vous in French with coworkers. Some French speaking countries, folks just tutoient everyone all the time everywhere outside of a meeting with a minister and other countries my coworkers of years call each other vous
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Just do whatever you want you're never going to please the french
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these are people in former French colonies that all speak French, but generally have a first non-euro native language, so the rules are just who knows
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Mauser posted:Someone in one of these threads was saying how Shakespeare would have dudes switch from formal you when they're on good terms and then informal thou when they're hurling insults. In regards to Shakespeare, the first major insult exchange I could think of was the thumb biting in Romeo and Juliet, where they use "you" instead of "thou" the entire time. I'm sure there's other Shakespearean insult exchanges where "thou" is used instead of "you," that just happened to be the first one to pop in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9D_4A7yYzc Edit: Looking this up I realized the Baz Luhrmann film is the most recent film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that uses Shakespeare's script. I feel like the current generation of teenagers deserves a new version with Zendaya as Juliet by the people behind Euphoria. Air Skwirl has a new favorite as of 23:30 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Lobok posted:"Hey, uh... Those don't look like hogs..." 'always willing to kill those pigs from ICE' 
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ultrafilter posted:Yep. Europeans in general care about academic titles but the Germans are on a different level. Yeah there’s a whole hobby of reviewing old dissertations to find out if someone plagiarized. It’s led to the resignations of at least two cabinet level officials who got caught.
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So someone in Germany with two PhD's would have people asking for updates from them by saying "Dr Dr give me the news"?
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Inceltown posted:So someone in Germany with two PhD's would have people asking for updates from them by saying "Dr Dr give me the news"? They've gotta say Sie instead of Du
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Inceltown posted:So someone in Germany with two PhD's would have people asking for updates from them by saying "Dr Dr give me the news"? That's right, and if they were sick with a fever they would have to say "Dr. Dr., Can't you see I'm burning, burning."
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That's a good joke spoiled by the fact that Germans don't understand humor
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Basketball shoes never really took off in Germany because "Mr. Jordans" doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Air Skwirl posted:In regards to Shakespeare, the first major insult exchange I could think of was the thumb biting in Romeo and Juliet, where they use "you" instead of "thou" the entire time. I'm sure there's other Shakespearean insult exchanges where "thou" is used instead of "you," that just happened to be the first one to pop in my head What did teenagers do to deserve that.
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Mauser posted:Someone in one of these threads was saying how Shakespeare would have dudes switch from formal you when they're on good terms and then informal thou when they're hurling insults. I did some googling when it got explained and apparently you used it to insult as well. Like you're talking down to them.
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Air Skwirl posted:I feel like the current generation of teenagers deserves a new version with Zendaya as Juliet by the people behind Euphoria. Let a few generations have a break and enjoy Rosaline instead.
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https://twitter.com/saberspark/status/1681399292257288193?s=46&t=LuWlVigXSHv3TXi-WVRPYA
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Captain Monkey posted:https://twitter.com/saberspark/status/1681399292257288193?s=46&t=LuWlVigXSHv3TXi-WVRPYA Oppenheimer fans on the left, barbie fans on the right
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Inceltown posted:So someone in Germany with two PhD's would have people asking for updates from them by saying "Dr Dr give me the news"? I've got a bad case of loving
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https://twitter.com/its_jessi_grace/status/1680619541905195009
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CommonShore posted:Most romance languages still have the "thou" equivalent. Thou / tu is more personal and familiar, but sometimes has a connotation of being patronizing. You / vous / usted is plural, formal, and respectful, but also distant and cold, exactly like a second person version of the royal We. Does the famous quote from Lady Marmalade use "vous" because it's implicitly a sex worker talking to a potential client or am I overthinking it and it's just a bad translation?
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yep this is how humans are supposed to eat ice cream, and how they did it in paleolithic times. much like how shoes have destroyed our natural gait, how chairs have destroyed our ability to sit in a squat, modern inventions like spoons and cones have destroyed our ability to eat ice cream the NATURAL way.
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https://twitter.com/moshibass/status/1680955519576707073?s=46&t=W2Qm6mR0SpKXEUHEsUiPGg https://twitter.com/alexapdos/status/1681333011671838720?s=46&t=W2Qm6mR0SpKXEUHEsUiPGg
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TREE LAW
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Whatever studio that is could pay a hundred tree fines before it’d have to think twice when doing so in the service of loving over strikers. If the penalty for a crime is only a fine, then it’s only a crime to poor people.
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LawfulWaffle posted:Whatever studio that is could pay a hundred tree fines before it’d have to think twice when doing so in the service of loving over strikers. If the penalty for a crime is only a fine, then it’s only a crime to poor people.
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They are already losing revenue way beyond what it would cost to capitulate to the strike and certainly way beyond any tree fines
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that's punishable by a fine of up to tree thousand dollars or tree years in prison
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Rare Derek ‘L’.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It's been decades, but isn't there also a title for the wife of a doctor/professor? Die Frau des Herrn…?
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https://twitter.com/Ewelannawhite/status/1681715092839071751?s=20 https://twitter.com/Ewelannawhite/status/1681731012038934536?s=20 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 04:00 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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Organza Quiz posted:Does the famous quote from Lady Marmalade use "vous" because it's implicitly a sex worker talking to a potential client or am I overthinking it and it's just a bad translation? That formality is there, though maybe the speaker is addressing more than one person!
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:https://twitter.com/moshibass/status/1680955519576707073?s=46&t=W2Qm6mR0SpKXEUHEsUiPGg This guy owns. https://twitter.com/moshibass/status/1633860688665018369?s=46
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Lol I just tried to paste one of the above tweets and got:code:E: “Tweet.html” holy poo poo is he trying IIS? Why is the first letter capitalized? Ahahaha
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Lol I just tried to paste one of the above tweets and got: That’s what you get if you somehow manage to copy the source of the iFrame embed itself (in the Awful iOS app, I get that if I long-press on a tweet and tap Copy URL). If I go to share a tweet from the app, I usually have to tap it to open it in a browser tab, then copy the address bar, where you can indeed lop off all the stupid bullshit query parameters.
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Blue Moonlight posted:That’s what you get if you somehow manage to copy the source of the iFrame embed itself (in the Awful iOS app, I get that if I long-press on a tweet and tap Copy URL). If I go to share a tweet from the app, I usually have to tap it to open it in a browser tab, then copy the address bar, where you can indeed lop off all the stupid bullshit query parameters. Thanks pasting, browsing, and re copying were the steps I missed. Please enjoy this simplified URL paste of a bad kitten except they’re a kitten. https://twitter.com/Ewelannawhite/status/1681715092839071751
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