Chit-Chat best coast california Page 150

Started by Honest December 21st, 2013 7:47 AM
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Tsutarja

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I've never experienced any serious earthquake, fortunately.
If you lived where you do now back in 2011, then you would have definitely, as a magnitude 5.8 one struck in Virginia that year.

Never felt an earthquake, either, but there have been two major earthquakes in my lifetime close to Florida.

Khilia

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The biggest natural-catastrophe-esque thingy we ever got around here was maybe a tornado of possibly the weakest degree...

Man, Brandenburg is boring...

Tsutarja

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I've gone through three hurricanes, in the span of two months, and that was back in 2004.

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Yes, Sector is a natural disaster indeed :P

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We were following the prononciation of alphabet in German; A through I went swimmingly, but when the prof. pronounced J, the whole classroom went quiet for like 10 seconds before someone tried to mutter it out; definitely the most awkward moment of the semester so far. (which will probably be a regular occurrence)

The worst thing about it is we only went up to L. (Can't wait for the likes of V, W, and umlauts to stump the whole class again)

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We were following the prononciation of alphabet in German; A through I went swimmingly, but when the prof. pronounced J, the whole classroom went quiet for like 10 seconds before someone tried to mutter it out; definitely the most awkward moment of the semester.
Y.

ÜPSILON
seriously I honestly wonder why we couldn't think of a easier name...

Aeroblast

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Y.

ÜPSILON
seriously I honestly wonder why we couldn't think of a easier name...
Probably because they ran out of ideas so they picked the most relevant greek letter to work with.

Khilia

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ß is ezette (or something like that) sounds like double s, leading to confusion between when to use ss and ß.

We haven only gone through A-L, though.
Essentially ß is a hybrid of S and Z (obviously), so it's used in instances where such a vocal would've been used.
Also, only for maybe a little more than 10 years ago the amounts of ß's in our language decreased due to an grammar law thingy and got replaced by ss's; after that e.g. Nuß became Nuss, wußte -> wusste, Haß -> Hass etc. etc.

Yet it still appears nowadays though, only much rarer. Example is the problem of Weiß:
-It's both correct written Weiß and Weiss
-It also means two different things, if you use Weiß as noun it means the color white, if you write it like weiß it means as much as "know" (e.g. Ich weiß - I know)
-If you make a spelling mistake and eventually write weise, it means wise

yes our language is weird too

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ß is also used in this instance - Wie heißt du? (pretty much the extent of my German conversational abilities)

-It also means two different things, if you use Weiß as noun it means the color white, if you write it like weiß it means as much as "know" (e.g. Ich weiß - I know)
I seemed to have noticed the difference of meaning based on capitalization as well (Sie vs sie)

All this language talk seemed to have killed the DCC, though. So let's "amp up" the thread with some food talk - as much as I hate to do this, it seems it's one of the only ways to guarantee some "DCCers" to come out of their shells... So, what did you eat for dinner? (or are going to)

Edit: Actually never mind! Thank you, CC.

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When I was learning German in school, they said that they were trying to phase out the ß, but I don't think they ever did.
From what I was taught this morning, they attempted to remove eszett (quick google search ftw) completely but a lot of people were against it, so it was only removed partially.
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From what I was taught this morning, they attempted to remove eszett (quick google search ftw) completely but a lot of people were against it, so it was only removed partially.
Ah, okay, that makes more sense. xD It was a long time ago that I was in school!

Khilia

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Personally I don't want the ß to be removed completely either, I mean, not only it'd make a lot of words look worse than they did before, but also it's the only unique letter we have and I enjoy using it :c

Tsutarja

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There's a certain word I can think of that uses the ß letter, but it'd cost me a post/maybe infraction as well if I posted the word :p

Khilia

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There's a certain word I can think of that uses the ß letter, but it'd cost me a post/maybe infraction as well if I posted the word :p
Sachgemäß?
Salatsoße?
Abbaumaßnahme?
seriously I totally have no idea what you could mean

:p

Khilia

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You mean...this isn't Beta? Why am I going to school then?
This is the letter Beta: β
This is the letter SZ/Eszet: ß

there is a small but big difference between those c:

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I like our ö å and ä!

Skulle ärligt talat vara svårt att överhuvudtaget skriva utan dem.
paired with Ivysaur

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There's a certain word I can think of that uses the ß letter, but it'd cost me a post/maybe infraction as well if I posted the word :p
Ah yes, a certain nerd has taught me that word.