Zompist Bboard Again

So the meaning is different in French and in German - in German, a Markise is always made of canvas. And prototypically, so are "awnings" in English. A search for "concrete awning" does get about 20,000 Ghits, but if someone said "We decided to add an awning to the back of ...

For some reason, Australians often describe something as "shithouse" instead of just "shit", so then every fucking monolingual Australian who thinks they can say a couple of words in German will say "Scheisenhausen" 🤦‍♂️. (They can't say Scheiße ... it always sounds li...

The only things that look non US-American to me are that they use the word "chook" (Australian for "chicken") and say "chips" instead of "fries", but, like, "buffalo ranch chips"? I don't even fucking know what that is. 🤣 Chips with buffalo sauce an...

What do you call the roof over a porch or a verandah? The only word that really comes to mind is awning . "Awning" for me implies removable, usually cloth. But the roof of these structures is generally permanent, made of wood or even stone and brick. I think I'd be most like to stay "...

One thing I should note is that <ö ü> are treated as simply allographs of <o u> in America, as demonstrated by the infamous "heavy metal umlaut", Oh, I handle that by simply pronouncing it. If the bands didn't want me to pronounce it, they shouldn't have put it there. A friend of one of m...

Next you're going to tell me you've never heard of anyone eating mayo directly out of a jar either.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:36 amThe real question, and I mean this 100% seriously, are there any Chicagoans who pronounce Malört "muh-lert"?

Not IME (and I know quite a few Malört drinkers and end up talking about it several times a month). The usual pronunciation is /məˈloɹt/, with the umlaut simply ignored.

This reminds me, back when I was a very weird teenager on my way to becoming a very weird adult, I experimented a couple of times with eating sauerkraut with chopsticks. That makes sense to me, especially if you eat it directly from the jar. (I generally sauté or braise my sauerkraut before eating....

äreo wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 4:10 pm Metric in general is whatever, but I will always be a Fahrenheit stan. It's more precise

And if you're willing to use decimals?

If you think it's recent, where do you think the CTA came up with it? From...the dude? We were using the approximation "Gerta" for the Genius of the German People in high school in St Louis, despite the fact that if there'd been a student of that name, he'd probably have been called /ˈɡeɪ...

linguistcat wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:48 am Solresol of cuisine: All ingredients make sounds and are limited to 7

All possible ingredients make sounds if you know how to manipulate them.

Apparently a standard American German kind of developed before German finally went extinct in places like here in Wisconsin. One key detail is that StG rounded front vowels became unrounded front vowels, which is still reflected in traditional pronunciations of German names here. In Wisconsin or th...

Darren wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 2:47 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:53 am Oh, I think in Australian English, "kilo" is sometimes used for "kilometer".

I have never heard this. Kilometres are shortened to "kay"s.

"klicks" in US military slang.

The real question, though, is where you stress the full form.

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:03 pm - Meat: fish, chicken and poultry

Um like what do you think chicken is?

Seems to me if the goal is a "universal" cuisine, then the logical strategy is to eliminate the most common allergens and taboos. This would mean not just dairy and soy, but also wheat (because celiac disease is widespread in many areas), peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, and shellfish. Actually, ...

I don't know exactly what was said, as I obviously was not there, and I can read neither Linguoboy's nor Linguoboy's friend's minds, but Linguoboy didn't say that he explicitly suggested they include a more diverse group of people, just that they have more people. If Linguoboy had suggested the for...

So yesterday a did a photo shoot for a friend's project. There were seven other models and we all knew each other so we were able to joke around and have a lot of fun, but-- I couldn't help but notice that--despite the fact that my friend said in his invite he was looking for "all sizes, shapes...

Sorry, but I can't read this without thinking of a particular Nate Bargatze routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXy3uII-xn0

If you're impatient with ads then get a better adblocker, but jeez, don't pat yourself on the back for it. If you ethically object to Youtube, then don't watch it. You are not some kind of hero for demanding free entertainment. Well ok, rereading it I do realize it sounds rather silly. :oops: It's ...

I cannot tell you how exactly that happened, but at some point, German innovated a neuter plural ending -er which triggers umlaut. There are plenty such neuter plurals, such as Häuser 'houses', Bücher 'books' and Löcher 'holes'. I thought it was pretty well established that this alternation was gen...