schnurrito

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 6 months ago (8 children)

There have been a few explanations of "dummy pronoun" already. What's going on is that English doesn't allow sentences without a subject, so an "it" needs to be added even though it doesn't refer to anything. In other languages, especially pro-drop ones, you can say just "is raining" or "is cold", ungrammatical in English (also eg German, French).

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think most people don't snore most of the time actually. I've observed different people sleep several times in my life and the vast majority mostly didn't snore.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

I'm from eastern Austria and I've had people from other German-speaking regions think I'm Swiss or completely non-native because of my accent when speaking German.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

Though most major browsers use Chrome’s rendering engine now except for Firefox and its derivatives.

Apple's browsers don't either. They share a common ancestor, but they're now different rendering engines.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's true that docx (also other Office Open XML and OpenDocument file types) is a zip file containing the files that make up the document, but those files have little in common with HTML, they are their own XML schemas.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By definition if it is "banned" then no one gets to eat it, not even the rich.

What might cause that scenario is if meat is very expensive. This was the case for much of human history anyway.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not an April Fools joke, this was reported in media I read too in the last few days, ie not on April 1, eg https://www.nau.ch/news/europa/billig-airline-soll-bald-stehplatze-anbieten-66994378

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My first language is German and this was one of the first lessons we ever got in English: how to form questions and that you need to use the verb "do" to do that.

And then we later had to learn the exceptions like "be" and "can" because "do you be stupid?" and "do you can swim?" are definitely not valid English.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The technical term you're looking for is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-support

English is somewhat weird in how to form questions and negations, most other languages don't do this kind of thing.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

not as a full sentence, certainly as a subclause: "can you tell me what it means?"

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I agree with you substantially.

But just very recently there was a story in Germany where a male elementary school teacher revealed that he was gay. Many of his students were Muslims who were taught to hate gay people and now refused to respect him in various ways (including refusing to go to his classes).

Who is the "oppressed group" here?

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