I work at a bakery and teach German classes (in Germany). One of my students came in the other day and I made her a sandwich to order, which I felt 100% normal about, but my bakery manager felt awkward about. The student seemed to feel a little weird too, but she ordered it, lol.
Then she missed my class later that afternoon -_-
If I could find a pair that didn’t cut off blood supply to some of my favorite parts, I definitely would, though I’d wear sneakers/birkenstocks and either roll the cuffs up to mid calf or leave them down
Taco Bell tastes good though. Burger King is disappointing in appearance and taste.
To fish is angeln, Anglo Saxon is angelsachsen, and German memes get passed through the translation process a little too much
Yeah, that’s exactly the spirit in which I use chivalry!
For anyone else who’s learning something new today. That’s generally what I practice, though I tend to think of it as a form of chivalry. I’m a woman ish, but I like the idea of decoupling chivalry from gender roles and treating everyone with more care than is typical. Plus, sexist men hate nothing more than having a woman hold the door or offer to carry something heavy for them.
As an immigrant with all the love in my heart: yes.
That would kill me. I realized that the computer rounds down when calculating our employee discount (we get 50% off, but if something ends in x.x5, we pay x.x2/x.x7, whereas other customers paying for half a loaf of bread would pay x.x3/x.x8) and I’ve been exploiting that since.
I guess this comment section has been a learning experience because I realized that I am exactly the same as that customer.
If it helps, it was a price ending in a different digit. It ended in six, he gave me seven cents, and wouldn’t accept my offer of his two cents back and I’d be happy to pay the difference personally. He wanted to pay exactly what he owed, which is his prerogative.
The price of our plain Brötchen is indivisible by five, which means I get to impress the shit out of people with very basic mental math, but we do have to mess with the fiddly coins. Normally people are a little embarrassed and grimace while waiting for a tiny amount of change, but this guy was chilling. Honestly, more power to him.
I work at a bakery in Germany that’s open on sundays (most things are closed). Yesterday was absolutely flooded because of Mother’s Day and we kept running out of coins.
I had a man wait over five minutes before I was able to give him his change of one cent. I wish I were so in charge of my finances.
Hey, I just want to suggest that you treat your past self as kindly as you treated the awkward kid. We all fuck up on things, it’s okay.
Side note: the translation you chose for bill was not one of the two I was thinking of (Schein as in currency and Rechnung), which reminded me of when my student asked why there were two words for receipt and I listed off five and just had to apologize
I mean, Zangendeutsch really takes it to another level with the absolute commitment though
To be fair, it’s a common source of comedy for speakers of any language with a lot of loan words to treat them like calques for the purpose of momentary confusion. People refer to little mules or little asses when discussing Mexican food in English, for example. I also didn’t even start learning German until 2009, so I definitely wasn’t there when it started.
In many German Reddit meme communities, there’s a ban on using English enforced by the community through an all caps ouiji style comment chain, telling the offender “sprich deutsch, du hurensohn,” which means “speak German, you bastard [literally:son of a whore].” In response to (edit: Probably separately from but working well with) that, people began trying to avoid the use of germanized English words and wound up creating basically a pidgin in which things that don’t literally translate are translated literally, completely muddling things for English speakers learning German. My favorite example is a company that used to be run by bill gates, winzigweich, which makes kraftpunkt, Mannschaften, und überbiete, in addition to Fenster.
Edit: the pidgin is called Zangendeutsch (tongs German)
That’s why I used subjunctive :)
Flexibility probably plays a role. I have Ehlers danlos and I get a 180 degree angle on that joint. I don’t have a dick, so I can’t report back, but my gap is over ten inches and I have to imagine I’d have longer fingers if I’d been born a dude (men are generally less flexible, but can still get EDS).
I’m not your target audience (sorry), as I left in 2021, but I left because I had given up on it during the pandemic when people couldn’t muster up enough care for each other to just mask up in public during a deadly pandemic. It was a combination of that and the realization that living in close proximity to my loved ones didn’t ensure I could visit them with any regularity, but that I could socialize with them from afar, so the pandemic gave me an impetus for and removed the main barrier from my emigration.
I was really missing a sense of community in a societal sense that I’ve found in Germany. My social circle is definitely smaller here, as I was pretty firmly rooted in the US, but strangers on the street are kinder (though not necessarily friendlier or nicer) to each other here and they take care of each other better. I live in an area with a specialized clinic for a certain handicap, so that plays a role, but there’s especially a lot of care taken for disabled people and the elderly, who are therefore a lot more present in the community. There are a lot of ways in which Germany is a lot more sink-or-swim than the US, but the most vulnerable people are embraced in a way that I find comforting and refreshing.