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The only earthquake I've experienced was in 2008 when this 5.4 one happened here at like 4 in the morning. To make it worse I was having a hard time sleeping that night and woke up right before it happened. It was horrifying and took me sometime to fall back asleep. D: Then an aftershock happened when I was in school , but good thing I didn't feel it much.
 
I second Audy as I'm from California too. :D We got earthquakes, we got, fires, we got them all except extreme cold tempratures and tornadoes. Although those have been rare and we get REALLY EXCITED when we see one. xD
 
ShadowE said:
Such rudeness... my feelings are hurt ;-;
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Such rudeness. Much pain. Feelings hurt now. Wow.

Sorry I had too.

And Megan , that's why I'm glad I'm not in California sometimes. Though I'd appreciate your warm weather.
 
루기아 said:
I've never experienced any serious earthquake, fortunately.
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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.
 
The biggest natural-catastrophe-esque thingy we ever got around here was maybe a tornado of possibly the weakest degree...

Man, Brandenburg is boring...
 
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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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루기아 said:
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.
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Y.

ÜPSILON
seriously I honestly wonder why we couldn't think of a easier name...
 
Yet do you guise actually know how to say the letter ß?
And that's not the greek one, I mean this one which is exclusive to the German language, he he he...
 
ß is ezette (or something like that) sounds like double s, leading to confusion surrounding usage of ss and ß.

We haven only gone through A-L, though.
 
루기아 said:
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.
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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
 
ß is also used in this instance - Wie heißt du? (pretty much the extent of my German conversational abilities)

KhiliaGro said:
-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)
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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.
 
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.
 
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