LeFrog
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- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 6 days ago:
LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15)
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- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 1 week ago:
devs
More like managers
- Comment on Very gently, I’m sure 1 week ago:
- Comment on What a gentleman 1 week ago:
So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.
Maybe I put it wrong, but it works even better in modern Germany: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
- Comment on What a gentleman 1 week ago:
No no, it works even better: “Stuhl” means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: “Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?” So unlike in the English version, “Stuhl” literally both means “chair” and “poop”.
- Comment on What a gentleman 1 week ago:
Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!
I am guessing this comes directly from German
The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:
Chair:
Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere (“chair, seat, throne”), from Latin cathedra (“seat”).
Stuhl:
[…] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ […]
(Old high German stuol meaning ‘seat’ or ‘throne’
Das Wort Stuhl […] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.
(The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix ‘l’ to the root ‘*stā’ or ‘*stǝ’ which means ‘to stand’)
So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool. “Schemel” seems to come from “scamilla”, Latin for small bench.
I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it’s interesting :D
- Comment on What a gentleman 1 week ago:
It works at least in German: Stuhl is both the furniture and the term doctors use to describe poop.
- Comment on Your majesty 1 week ago:
hypomyces
So these are parasitic mushrooms, okay. Are there any mushrooms that live as parasites on hypomyces? So basically a mushroom human centipede?
- Comment on Mr Burn 1 week ago:
Aaaaaactually the vehicle they used to fly also bestrides some space in itself
- Comment on Man, I hate it when my cat steals my penis! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I don't mind! 3 weeks ago:
Oh, TIL about Phoebe’s stinky pussy
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- Comment on Spider mech!! 3 weeks ago:
You can add two spaces at the end of each line to achieve line breaks
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 4 weeks ago:
Harald Glööckler, this you?
- Comment on I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops. 1 month ago:
I habe no idea if this site is reliable but they say like $ 60
- Comment on Found at work. Send help. 1 month ago:
What is even happening here? There is a sum of like every 13th cell?
- Comment on see the joke is that someone else does the work 2 months ago:
Well, you have a point here.
- Comment on see the joke is that someone else does the work 2 months ago:
IIRC it depends on the frame of reference. Relative to a magnetic field, the only thing a magnetic force does is changing the velocity direction of affected objects. All work regarding the absolute magnitude of the velocity is zero (no lateral acceleration).
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Jet fuel cannot melt water
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 2 months ago:
It is more like
SELECT users.id FROM users
or
select users.id from users
- Comment on Hate crimes 2 months ago:
Aaaaah thank you very mich. That helped
- Comment on Hate crimes 2 months ago:
ELI5
- Comment on Meow 2 months ago:
Yeah that seems really far fetched. Humans are generally bad at communicating with mostly body posture and scent. We have no tail to wiggle, no easily movable ears and no chance to use cat pheromones.
So naturally the cat has the best chance to get a response by using vocalication/sounds. It is just coincidence that their kittens do also mostly respond to sounds in their first weeks.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 2 months ago:
I think you got this wrong. If you sit 0.3 m away, more than 4k is worth it.
- Comment on ScIence 3 months ago:
Not to be confused with
SWOL
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
As a German I can assure you that false friends are something you scare away all pupils (regardless of age). I have very intense memory of our English teacher correcting us again and again.
Regarding the composita in German: we are moving more towards the English approach by splitting these word monstrousities with hyphens. E.g. Donaudampfschifffahrtsamt may be spelled Donau-Dampfschifffahrts-Amt. Its way easier to read and write. While the hyphenated spelling is not something that is used often officially, it got more popular in the last decades.
- Comment on How German Police Do Police Brutality 4 months ago:
As a former fan I have to admit that Till Lindemann is a disgusting person
- Comment on git commit -m "depose" 5 months ago:
I do not understand this whole post. I know how git works but what is with his GH profile? I am at a loss here
- Comment on Parents when their kid brings them home a half-eaten candy necklace 5 months ago:
