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For context: The guy is called Fukuoka and it is the best book I read last year: https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/The_One_St...

Absolutely, though in this case it would be the most obvious translation, since it was a frisian settlement and "Rung" and "Holt" are both frisian words in use. It is possible that Rung here could mean stanchion/post (so for wood that makes strong posts), but unlikely so close to the sea, is it not?

I get what you mean, though. Here is a village called Großenwiehe, easy to be translated as "Great Consecration", and that was the commonly accepted meaning. Only much later it became apparent that "-wiehe" probably came from wighæ, so "Great Fortification". And in fact the old fortifications are still visible today.

Not far away, but partially preserved by the mudflat, lies Rungholt. A city of ~1000-1500 (some sources say 3000) inhabitants that was drowned in the Grote Mandrenke (1362 AD). That's a very big city in that time. In my childhood we were told, while wandering the tidal flat, that we should listen closely if we could hear the church bells under the mud. Only in 2023 the whereabouts of the sunken city were definitely confirmed and mapped. "Rungholt" probably means "wrong/low wood".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungholt

Oh wow, I had the exact image you linked photocopied and glued to the first page of my German folder. Has been ages since I saw this, thanks!

This can't be fully correct, though, at least for my (as-remote-as-it-gets) area. My father was born in '52 and had to learn it in school here. He still writes the small 'z' in Sütterlin, and it looks really nice.

My biggest selling point for this would be, that the volume is probably the same throughout the whole text. I am listening to audiobooks to fall asleep, and many voice actors go from very quiet to loud in conversations. It may be good narration, but it's sometimes to quiet to understand, so I need to increase the volume only to be woken up by some loud lines later.

So I imagine generated audiobooks to be good in that regard. Another option would be to have a "normalize volume" setting at audible, or other services.

Thanks for that explanation!

The Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum is the deadline to which the item may still be sold by the vendor, iirc.

Why should that be dangerous? I have never heard that.

I have always had my fridge at 8°C and never had something dangerous happen to me. I have never come across fridges that were way cooler, apart from fridges of friends in Canada and the US. What's the reasoning?

yr.no is the best for my location (northern Germany) as well.

Many locals use DWD (German Weather Service).

A lot of the German sailors use dmi.dk (Danish meteorological institute).

A lot of the Danish sailors use yr.no :)

So many left-handers here that feel disadvantaged in our right-handed society. If you ever want to do one thing where you feel you left-handedness gives you an advantage, pick up Kendo (the Japanese swordfighting). You have to wield your sword like everybody else but the aiming is done with your left while the right just provides the power for the stroke (the katana is a two-handed weapon). Since you are not supposed to fully power your slashes anyway, I felt being left-handed is a slight advantage in Kendo.

I am exactly like this. When I was learning to write I frequently changed hands, until my teacher told me, that I have 3 days to figure out with which hand I want to write. Left felt slightly better to me, but by that time I was eating like my completely right-handed family and using scissors with the right. I also play guitar as a right-handed would. I tried a left-handed bass for a bit and it was super awkward. It also means strumming is much harder for me than changing notes on the guitar. I struggled so hard with clawfinger banjo playing, that I gave it up.

All later skills, like shooting a bow, I do as a right-handed, since I am right-eyed. This is hard to do, since my left arm is much stronger than my right and you need more strength in the string-pulling arm.

I feel wrong and awkward a lot. Writing on a keyboard is very liberating. But when I was playing first person shooters in my teenage years, my aim (right-hand mouse) was always bad, while my footwork (left-hand WASD) was very good :D

Those exist here at the expense of different peoples, depending where you are in Germany. Most popular, from what I can tell, are East Frisians, but that has to do with a comedian who made a lot of those jokes (Otto Waalkes).

Wow, that's surprising! I live at the German/Danish border (Flensburg) and didn't know this. Have you got any idea, why?

Close at the border we have a lot of shops where people from Denmark (and even Norway and Sweden) travel to to go shopping, because it is so much cheaper here. But thinking about it, I have never seen/overheard Danes in an Aldi - and I wonder why?

A fantastic example of a man / band that is embracing the silliness is Rainbowdragoneyes. He mixes death metal with chiptune and trash pop voice modulators but still produces very intricate and well designed albums, that tell engaging stories, like this one: https://rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-mirr...

I was taught a good lesson about animations, that I want to share: When you make an animation, you might fall in love with it too much. You are proud, because it looks really cool. It's exciting to make it. Visitors of your page might not feel the same, since we see so many animations every day. Look at one of those cheap american news shows - there are really professional animations all the time. It's a hard pill to swallow, noone cares about our animation as much as we do :( It doesn't mean, the animation should go. It should absolutely stay, but the crank up the speed of the animation as much as you can bear. And then make it twice as fast. I mean that literally. I had made an animation that took a second to complete, a decade ago. My senior looked at it, and gave that same lesson. I cranked the speed up to 0.3 seconds - it was as much as I was willing to speed up. "Otherwise noone can really see it." ... Then I sped it up to 0.15 seconds, went to lunch, and when I came back, I could appreciate that it was perfect.

Yup! The German word Bein means both: Leg and Bone. Ethymology is a fascinating subject, for sure.

Ancient Greek was one of the best courses I had in university. It changed my view on language and western thinking quite a lot. My favorite words are

μαθηματικὴ (mathematike): If I remember correctly, it means 1. learning, 2. letter or book and 3. "everything there is to know (for certain)".

χαίρε (chaire): Used as a greeting, literally "be happy!"

Also it is funny that βαίνω (baino) means: I am walking, while "Bein" means leg in German - the amount of Ancient Greek words in German and other languages is ridiculously high.

That's what is my impression as well. Not an expert, but I thought Twin Peaks invented secondary plotlines.

Thank you! I feel super cheesy most of the time, writing those.

Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback! Indeed the quotes are wrong and I noticed the focus(?) bug as well on the phone. I think there are also some CSS-related bugs in safari, that I still need to fix.

Wow, thanks everyone! I am a bit overwhelmed :)

Shameless self promotion: Reverse RPG https://r-rpg.com/

I wanted a game like wordle, which I can play in like 5 to 10 minutes, but I don't really like word-puzzles. But everything else about wordle is great: no barriers, easy to pick up, replayable. So I made rrpg and intend to add content to it.

I haven't really thought about licensing, but I guess I will open-source it, if people like it. Right now it's just js in the browser, so anyone could copy it. Written with nx in typescript.

Dauergeist [dowr-ghaist]

= Durationgeist :)