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  • Aaron Parecki
    Any German speakers want to tell me if my instinct on this is correct?

    "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" is the name of a piece of music by Mozart that was just discovered. (He later titled a piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik")

    The English press about this is translating it as "Very little night music" which seems wrong? I feel like either "Quite small night music" or "Completely small night music" would be more accurate.

    When does "ganz" change from "quite" to "completely"? Is it ambiguous here?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 56°F
    1 like 3 reposts 10 replies
    Fri, Sep 20, 2024 10:29pm -07:00 #music #german #language
  • Introduction to Basic Chinese Grammar Rules | CLI (studycli.org)
    Wed, May 25, 2022 9:00pm -07:00 #chinese #language
  • Hen – the debated Swedish pronoun - Swedish Made Easy (swedishmadeeasy.com)
    Sun, Oct 17, 2021 8:45pm -07:00 #language #pronoun
  • Beginner | Hacking Chinese (www.hackingchinese.com)
    Sat, Oct 2, 2021 9:29pm -07:00 #language #chinese
  • 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus (m.nautil.us)
    Wed, Jul 14, 2021 10:20pm -07:00 #linguistics #language
  • The Handy List of Human Words. A plain language word list for UX… | by Deanna Horton | Curiosity by Design | Medium (medium.com)
    Wed, Mar 24, 2021 8:11am -07:00 #language #writing
  • Teaching English to Chinese Speakers: 9 Major Differences to Be Aware Of | FluentU English Educator Blog (www.fluentu.com)
    Sun, Jan 31, 2021 8:43pm -08:00 #language #chinese
  • Words Matter | Grandparents Against Gun Violence (moksgagv.org)
    Wed, Dec 23, 2020 10:17am -08:00 #language
  • Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations - CNN (www.cnn.com)
    Mon, Jul 6, 2020 4:53pm -07:00 #language
  • Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/

    Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main - Scott Hanselman

    June 8th, 2020

    Nice and straightforward. Locally:

    git branch -m master main git push -u origin main

    Then on the server:

    git branch -m master main git branch -u origin/main

    On github.com, go into the repo’s settings and update the default branch.

    Thanks for this, Scott!

    P.S. Don’t read the comments.

    Portland, Oregon • 56°F
    Mon, Jun 8, 2020 6:41pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Jun 8, 2020 9:01pm -07:00) #git #branches #master #main #terminology #cli #development #coding #language #versioncontrol
  • “Next Wednesday’s Meeting has been Moved Forward Two Days” | Swiss Journal of Psychology | Vol 78, No 1-2 (econtent.hogrefe.com)
    Sat, May 30, 2020 10:04am -07:00 #german #language #time
  • Aaron Parecki
    Why is it that I would introduce myself on a phone call by saying "Hi, this is Aaron", but it sounds absurd if I were to say that to your face?
    United Flight 5403 DFW to IAH in Dallas, Texas, USA
    3 likes 8 replies
    Wed, Mar 4, 2020 5:58pm -06:00 #language
  • Word list  |  Google developer documentation style guide (developers.google.com)
    Sat, Dec 21, 2019 2:20pm -08:00 #styleguide #language
  • Aaron Parecki
    anyone else feel like google have been losing their touch lately?
    Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA • 80°F
    6 likes 2 reposts 4 replies
    Tue, Sep 10, 2019 12:14am -05:00 #google #language #camera
  • Barnaby Walters https://waterpigs.co.uk

    I’ve gotten through entire (admittedly short) conversations in dutch just by speaking german in a dutchey way. It’s not just a weird version of german though, they have some (adorable) words of their own too!

    Utrecht
    Tue, May 14, 2019 2:04pm +03:00 (liked on Tue, May 14, 2019 2:20pm +02:00) #language #dutch #german #reply
  • Aaron Parecki
    it's always important to consider the opposite viewpoint

    https://twitter.com/nelson/status/1128064202600357893
    Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NLD
    2 likes
    Tue, May 14, 2019 12:28am +02:00 #language #dutch #german
  • Aaron Parecki
    hot take: Dutch is basically German with a funny accent
    Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NLD
    7 likes 2 replies
    Tue, May 14, 2019 12:25am +02:00 #german #language #dutch
  • Gretchen McCulloch https://xoxo.zone/@gretchenmcc

    We generally think about language as a THING: letters, sounds, signs. But little bits of silence or invisibility are found surprisingly often in language.

    Episode 23 of Lingthusiasm, the podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, is a tour through the various kinds of linguistic nothings 🎧💚🕳️

    Listen here or on your favourite podcast app https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/23-when-nothing-means-something

    #linguistics #podcasts #language

    Boston, Massachusetts • 72°F
    Sun, Aug 19, 2018 2:02pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Aug 19, 2018 10:15am -04:00) #language #podcasts #linguistics
  • List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
    Tue, Jul 31, 2018 8:47am -07:00 #names #language
  • The Year Without English (www.scotthyoung.com)
    Sat, Mar 3, 2018 9:21am -08:00 #language
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