pumpkinseedoil

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[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So if many people (still a minority by a large margin of course) started writing things like "I would of visited the museum's today but I saw two rare bird's, their just so fascinating." it should become correct?

It's not like a majority is using apostrophes for the genitive in German. But since it's so easy to spot the few % of miswritten genitives just stand out.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

In German we simply add an s for the genitive, and we add an apostrophe when a letter is missing.

For example Jacob's book would be "Jakobs Buch" ¹ but John's book would be "Johannes' Buch", not "Johannes's Buch" ² and also not "Johannes'' Buch" ³.

¹ not "Jakob's Buch", which is called the "Deppenapostroph" - fool's apostrophe

² fool's apostrophe

³ fool's apostrophe and a second apostrophe to mark the cancelled letter

The genitive is nice, convenient and useful, yes. But there's no reason to add an apostrophe when no letter is missing.

(And as explained above, no, it is not foreign, this isn't changing anything in spoken language either, it's just a common spelling error due to commonly seeing it in English)

To draw a comparison regarding how annoying it is for anyone who cares about written language: It's quite similar to as if people in English suddenly started marking the plural with an apostrophe. Or if "would of" instead of "would have" would become correct.

You can stop it any time you like

But you can never leave

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only thing that carried me through rough times was a hobby where I regularly meet a group of people for sports. Then you live so you can go there again the next week.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unrelated but does Eternity correctly support Links now? (to comments / threads)

This drove me to Jerboa, but I prefer Eternity's UI so I'd be pleased to go back if that's fixed.

But... but... what about infinite growth??

I like to say that there was a bad side and an even worse side, so I'm glad the bad side won.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Wasn't Trump banned from Twitter

You'll remember that the Jews weren't the only people the Nazis targeted - they weren't even the first.

To add context: in the KZ Mauthausen (don't know numbers for other KZ) only 20% of the people were Jewish. Most were Slavic, some other minority, political opponents or (basically also political opponents) people who refused to comply with the regime.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But then there's also the seven heads (seven trump headquarters), getting shot in the head thinking it's fatal but surviving seemingly through a miracle, the ones about his relations to the kingdom to the south, resulting in criticism from the north and east etc

Of course it's coincidence (at some point there just has to be someone who can be accurately described with these prophecies) but it's still very interesting

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't believe in the coming of an antichrist but damn, why do so many prophecies written two millennia ago point to one specific person, especially when those prophecies are so specific

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I like to read the biblical texts as texts you have to interpret. Basically like fairytales and fables are in versions that aren't from the brothers Grimm and especially Disney - they often were used to carry points that wouldn't have been tolerated by authority if they hadn't been covered like that, or simply to tell about some aspects of life.

When reading it like this the Bible is an extremely interesting book, and I'm saying that as an atheist.

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