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[Urwumpe]

Like the Odyssey told in dactylic hexameter...

Is there another way to tell it?:lol:

My state of mind: I hate my testers. Not for finding bugs, thats their job. I hate them for waiting two days until finally starting to test the software, and then stopping already after 30 minutes and the first bug, which we are not even sure yet if it can get reproduced and fixed at all... Now I have caught a cold, and am unable to work for the next week and can't even research the bug. Two work days sooner, it would have been no problem to look at the report.

 

[Linguofreak]

Oh two or three times in the International Forum. :lol:

No problem, I already learn to live with the fact that I have the tongue of lower saxon steel worker, who has spent too much time in Berlin and with people from Berlin.

My German is pretty non-standard... but how do overly optimistic communication coaches describe it... "Authentic". :rofl:

About the closest thing I can imagine having done to correcting your German would be asking "I learned A. You just said B. Is B dialectal, or did I learn wrong?". Being a non-native speaker, this is actually a fairly important question, because having learned something wrong is fairly likely.

It's actually fairly likely that my own German contains a fair number of Berlin/Brandenburgisms, after the year I spent in Cottbus. Here's one that I picked up in Cottbus that I'd never heard before going there: Is "Wie bitte?" regional, or was it just not covered in my German courses?

 

[MattBaker]

Is "Wie bitte?" regional, or was it just not covered in my German courses?

As in "Pardon me?" when you didn't understand something? I would say it's the most formal, high german version of that I could come up with from the top of my head.

Here in the South (you'd usually just say "Hä?" or "Was?" Simply adding bitte in there makes it seem formal to me.

 

[Linguofreak]

Here in the South (you'd usually just say "Hä?" or "Was?" Simply adding bitte in there makes it seem formal to me.

"Hä" is one I've certainly picked up. I first encountered it as "Hääääääääh?????", and have since taken to using that in English when I run across something really bizarre.

 

[statickid]

About the closest thing I can imagine having done to correcting your German would be asking "I learned A. You just said B. Is B dialectal, or did I learn wrong?". Being a non-native speaker, this is actually a fairly important question, because having learned something wrong is fairly likely.

It's actually fairly likely that my own German contains a fair number of Berlin/Brandenburgisms, after the year I spent in Cottbus. Here's one that I picked up in Cottbus that I'd never heard before going there: Is "Wie bitte?" regional, or was it just not covered in my German courses?

For what it's worth, "wie bitte?" was one of the first phrases we learned in my first year high school german course. So, it probablyk just depends on what teacher/book/school you went to

 

[Matias Saibene]

If the universe is the answer, what is the question ?.
To be or not to be is the question...

Or maybe aliens...

 

[Urwumpe]

Is "Wie bitte?" regional, or was it just not covered in my German courses?

Its politest Standard German.

The regional variant here is "Hä?!" or "Wa?"

 

[Koloss]

Its politest Standard German.

The regional variant here is "Hä?!" or "Wa?"

... or here at the Niederrhein: "Wat hasse jesacht?" :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Stumbled over an interesting concept ... Some engineers turned a former Flak bunker in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg into a solar power district power plant, providing district heating for 3000 homes and electricity for 1000 homes there. (Augmented by biogas and wooden pellet power, as side effect)

http://www.iba-hamburg.de/projekte/energiebunker/projekt/energiebunker.html

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Stumbled over an interesting concept ... Some engineers turned a former Flak bunker in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg into a solar power district power plant, providing district heating for 3000 homes and electricity for 1000 homes there. (Augmented by biogas and wooden pellet power, as side effect)

http://www.iba-hamburg.de/projekte/energiebunker/projekt/energiebunker.html

Lovely irony there.

Any reason for the specific choice of that building? (other than probably empty, and cheap)

 

[Urwumpe]

Lovely irony there.

Any reason for the specific choice of that building? (other than probably empty, and cheap)

Empty, cheap, a huge interior volume, and the chance to get some EU money for renovating the inaccessible parts of the bunker for historic conversation.

 

[jedidia]

Here's one that I picked up in Cottbus that I'd never heard before going there: Is "Wie bitte?" regional, or was it just not covered in my German courses?

It's very official, and very formal, and therefore never used by common people

There's an old joke about a french, an american and a german discussing who has the least phonetic language, and the american seems to take the cake until the german notices that "we write "wie bitte?", and we pronounce it "hä?"".

 

[n122vu]

Think I've just about settled on a new video card for my rig, though still looking for best price/service before buying.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...076&cm_re=evga_gtx_970-_-14-487-076-_-Product

Had actually been looking at getting a GTX 780, but have read tons of good stuff about the 970s. Still debating, though leaning strongly to the 970. Main use will be for FSX and X-Plane 10 on my i7 4770K rig.

 

[Izack]

I accidentally took a pretty decent screenshot.

 

[statickid]

games look like that now? I am so behind the times.:blink:

 

[Quick_Nick]

games look like that now? I am so behind the times.:blink:

Haa!! Skyrim graphics are quite outdated already.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Haa!! Skyrim graphics are quite outdated already.

Indeed. Take a look at Star Citizen if you want to see the bleeding edge of computer graphics. It make CryEngine3 beg for mercy.

 

[Codz]

NASA's doing an Orion AMA tomorrow at 3:00PM EST.

 

[Andy44]

I had to leave my (years-old) truck at the dealership for a couple of days to get some major repair work done. In the meantime they gave me a loaner car, a Buick Encore.

Yuck.

I mean, it handles and accelerates well, but I hate bucket seats and a center console that constrains leg movement. The visibility sucks with blind spots, small rear wndows, and cutesy little side mirrors. The radio is a million buttons, as is the air conditioning, when I setup the seat and stearing wheel for comfort the wheel blocks part of the speedometer.

To make matters worse, apparently even American cars now turn off the cigarette lighter socket when the ignition is off, so I can't charge my cellphone in the parking lot like I could with older cars. What's up with that? My old Volkswagon, I used to be able to keep the radio on with no key in the ignition and the doors open so we could sit outside at a minor league ball game and blast the radio...

And who actually likes cars like this?

I want my truck back. Get off my lawn!

 

[Urwumpe]

I had to leave my (years-old) truck at the dealership for a couple of days to get some major repair work done. In the meantime they gave me a loaner car, a Buick Encore.

A quick scan of Wikipedia reveals: In Germany this car is called a Opel Mokka... it was initially designed by Opel. Since I am a Wolfsburg guy, driving a Opel is unthinkable, so I never really cared but:

Yeah, if the US version looks the same inside, I can really really understand your problem with it. Which Linux developer created this user interface?

For comparison... my new command bridge :rofl: