hi

@NevikRehnel rise and shine

is allerdings ever used? It seems to be fairly rare

@Astrum it's not rare

I feel like you have a dozen ways to say "but"

however, so does english

other words notwithstanding

I noticed that after I wrote it

there is nonetheless some variety

ffs

I get it

nevertheless, i like to point it out ;)

-_-

Et ceterum puto Carthaginem esse delendam.

TIL that Einsteins last words are lost, because the nurse didn't know German

ha

thats how important our language is!

probably was something like "pass the salt" or something

or "nice ass"

my last words will totally be "Run forth and fornicate!"

I've heard that Einstein was black from the waist down...

or at least that's what my Cornell friend told me

he might have just made that up though

he's a strange character

extremely bright, but extremely weird

lol

didnt you know, all germans are black from the waist down

that's why we dont wear shorts

he has the blackest sense of humor I've ever encountered

oh dear...

I've never heard this stereotype

I thought it was so you didn't blind anybody with your pasty white legs!

hahaha

i personally avoid them

but that's because i feel more comfortable with cloth on my legs

good thing you're not a girl

that's not the only aspect where it's good im not a girl

the beard would be awkward

well, and other things are surely not pleasant, either

damn biology

always ruining the fun

ha

there was this really depressed guy who would write out late passes at my HS

and one time he told me "and then you graduate, and get a job... then you die"

the rumor was that he was gay, and apparently his boyfriend died and he'd been depressed ever since

happens

if that's true, I feel pretty bad for him, we probably shouldn't have given him so much shit

he was at a high school. you dont go to a high school without expecting shit

if you dont expect it, you deserve it

that's true, so I can give myself a pass

Hello @Takkat and @NevikRehnel

moin @Gigili

Why is an answer to that CW question non-CW, @Takkat?

apparently verboten is an English word too....

I could really go for a dark and stormy right now

lol

I was invited to a party in Boston sometime in May, but I'm afraid to go because if the police come, I'll be spending the night in jail. That would look really bad on a Princeton grad application

o.O

technically it's underage drinking

and if you're over 18, it becomes a larger offense than if you're under 18

the drinking age is 21

talk about BS

so dont go there

plus, STIs aren't exactly my thing

easy fix

sure, but I'd like to go to see my friends, haven't seen em' since HS

Boston is about 2 hours away, so I guess I could come home after a bit, but still

maybe I could hang out in Harvard Square and try to pretend to be Will Hunting (I hope you get the reference)

nope

it's a movie, it's actually pretty decent

it's about a kid/guy who's a math genius, but hangs out with the wrong crowd.

lol

He works as a janitor at MIT, and the story goes from there

It's a good story! it's about a lot more than that, but I enjoyed it

that where they write a uber-complex problem at a blackboard

and he just solves it overnight?

and no one knows the "culprit"?

@Vogel612 yeah, something regarding Fourier Analysis, but his area of expertise is combinatorics

the professor had won a Fields Medal

I like the scene at the bar, where he just destroys that history student.

hahahah

yeah, that was good

the scene where the NSA offers him a job is good

and he's just like: no. you suck.

0:09 I was there, just saying....

they put a sidewalk in now though

mitfühlen is empathize or sympathize?

sounds more like sympathize

but I can't be sure

what's the difference

empathize is more like "to pity", where sympathize is "your feelings are my feelings"

sympathize is a stronger word than empathize

"you cry, I cry"

that sort of thing

although people misuse them all the time

thefreedictionary.com/sympathy

thefreedictionary.com/empathy

perhaps a better way to put it is: Empathize - I understand your pain, Sympathize - I feel your pain

[en- + -pathy (translation of German Einfühlung).] <--- LOL

O.o

someone might want to tell them that it's from greek, and also "Einfühlung" doesnt exist in german

I googled it

yeah, no such word

email them

and set them straight

hell no

dailymotion.com/video/…

just like that

not sure if you had spongebob in Germany

if you didn't, I pity you

we did, but i never really watched it

Sponge Bob, Schwammkopf...

Meine Kinder haben es gerne gesehen. Sehr gutes Deutsch in der Synchronfassung übrigens.

no comma, and only two words overall, @Takkat

the humor was actually not good for kids. being so young, it really went over our heads

that's probably the main point of the show

I find it amusing how @Takkat pops up at the most random times

the show makes a couple suicide jokes, even

but as a little kid, you never catch them

@clinch RR = Rechtschreibreform

8:30 in the morning is the time of the day when work only just started to pop in here.

what time do German schools start (HS and primary school)

that depends

We started here at 7:25 for HS

anywhere from 7:30 to 9:00 from what ive heard

lol, I might have actually gotten decent grades, if I started at 9

6 hours of sleep 5 days a week does some serious damage to your motivation

people like blaming the time of day for their school performance

well that's pretty much your own fault

it is, I suppose

go to bed sooner, and stop being a whiny b-(PG13'd)

my middle school started at 720 and my high school started at 9 and honestly it doesn't make a big difference

*high school starts

I'm not convinced that that's the case all the time. For me I think it would make a huge difference

I took all late courses after HS, and it made a huge difference

@Gigili: we merged the TV show question

I've just found you have to be reasonable and understand going to bed at 2 am will work better when you don't have to be awake until 7 versus when you have to be up at 5

I'm a night person, it's honestly not such an easy thing to force myself to bed early

it's mostly a question of discipline and mindset

@NevikRehnel I'm not saying it's impossible for me to get myself on track, it's just more challenging for me than for others. My clock never worked like that

get a new clock :P

but i know what you mean

my schedule is pretty bad right now, actually... but that's the side-effect of taking a semester off

ha

yeah, new brain pls

Moin :)

greetings @OregonGhost

I'd like to throw in 7:30 as today's hotel breakfast time, and just now work begins... Way too early for me ;)

noon is the best time to wake up =D

That was actually an acceptable time when I began at my current company. But for some years now, we have had a core time of 10:00 to 16:00. Can still live with that time ;)

yeah, that's not too bad

can Einfürung be used as "the Intro to a book"?

awkwardly, yes. but usually that would be an "Einleitung"

Would also prefer Einleitung. Einführung is more like an intro to a topic.

all female words, I call sexism

@Takkat Finde den Fehler: "TV-Stations with German shows" [...] "CSI, Dr. House, Game of Thrones, Criminal Minds, ..." ;)

German-language Shows? :p

Ja, ich weiß, manchmal bin ich sehr pingelig ^^

Im Zusammenhang mit einer Seite zum Lernen einer Sprache gerade in diesem Fall durchaus verzeihlich ^^

Anyways. Fands nur eben ganz lustig.

Bin wieder afk ^^

Ach hallo noch

und ciao

Moin und tschüss^^

Ach @Em1 noch, von wegen man kann ein Auto nicht mögen, das man sich gerade angeschaut hat. Also bei mir war's Liebe auf den ersten Blick ;)

Spüren is preferable to fühlen in the correct context?

spüren is more of a physical feeling

so in cases of a physical sensation, you should use spüren?

however, fühlen is usually a valid synonym even if spüren fits

so it really doesn't matter?

@Astrum i cant think of an example where spüren is exclusive/much preferable

ok, gotcha

of course i could just be wrong, haha

you seem to be right most of the time, so I'll take your word for it... but I'm watching you eye squint

ha

what happens if I double up on the asterisks

the important thing is to note when i say "i know" and "i cant think of"

try it

*hi there

Bob Bobinson

now let's triple it

Hello

wow

wow

I mean

wowza

*pushing my luck*

aw

3 is the limit

does this support latex, or is that only some chats?

probably only some

$F=ma$

considering the limitations of the parser used

=D

it works

it doesnt for me

oh, hang on a sec, you need this link

i just see the dollary source

math.ucla.edu/~robjohn/math/mathjax.html @NevikRehnel

this is what everybody uses on the math and physics SE chat

ha

moar JS

dont need that right now i dont think

$$\sum ^{\infty} _{n=1} n = -\frac{1}{12}$$

@Em1 die Antwort kommt aus einem Merge einer Frage, in der nach eingedeutschten amerikanischen Serien gefragt wurde. Ich meine aber, dass ein Titel "German shows" besser ist, da Synchronfassungen manchmal sehr unidiomatisch sind und man in dieser Antwort wirklich den Schwerpunkt auf die deutschen Sendungen legen sollte. Vielleicht mage @npst seine Antwort noch redigieren...

$$\nabla \cdot \mathbf E = 4\pi \rho$$

ok, I'm happy now

@NevikRehnel is it ok to say vista in German? I'm not sure if it's a loan word

@Astrum you mean in the sense of grand view/background ?

yeah

no i dont think so

wiktionary gives Aussicht

and Ausblick

@Astrum "vista" @ dict.leo.org

both are correct

coolios

er... @NevikRehnel I have another question.... "Es war Wunderbar, gebraucht zu werden" why are we using "werden" and not "sein"? Is this not present tense?

@Astrum: Weil man gebraucht wird und nicht gebraucht ist - letzteres ist nicht so ein tolles Gefühl ;)

I'm not sure I follow. why is "to be needed" bad ?

@Astrum the first is "to be needed", the latter is "to be used"

oooohhhhhh

not sure why though

that doesn't make sense to me

there is not as big a distinction between the progressive passive (Vorgangspassiv) and the state passive (Zustandspassiv) in english

this can lead to some serious misunderstandings

I should probably understand this

as the names same, a Vorgangspassiv ("<Verb im Passiv> werden") describes a process, while a Zustandspassiv ("<Verb im Passiv> sein") describes a state

for literal translations, a process/progressive passive form would be translated with "to become <participle>", while a state passive would be "to be <participle>"

I see

@OregonGhost Troll nicht :D

Würde ich nie machen ;)

@NevikRehnel aside from this case with gebraucht

?

"gebraucht sein" literally means "(to be) used", which is bad when applied to people, but neutral when applied to things (used car = "gebrauchtes Auto")

@Astrum indeed

it's funny that we don't care how our cars feel about being used =[

but I understand

as you might have noticed from these examples, the state passive usually coincides with the present perfect of verbs whose present perfect is formed as <inflected form of sein > + <participle>

because I was just looking at some words, and it seems that it's just the same as "the haus is built" vs" the haus was built"

house*

wow

@Astrum that's a good example of where you'd use the present progressive in english

whatever that is, bro, whatever that is

oh, I see what you did there

so, how do express "the house will be built (construction no yet started)?

awkwardly, you could also say "the house is becoming built" in english, thereby expressing the progress from "not built" to "built"

ekk, that sounds weird

yes, but it's more literal of the werden

as we dont have a progressive verb form in german

@Astrum "Das Haus wird gebaut werden" :P

@Astrum that would be "das Haus wird gebaut werden"

:D

one werden for the passive, one for the future tense

so it's like weather

The way you say "es wird werden"

"Es wird sonnig." vs. "Es wird von der Sonne beschienen werden." :P

@Nevik Es ist nicht so toll von Leuten als Problemlösungswerkzeug gebraucht zu werden. Danach fühlt man sich immer so benutzt ;)

@Vogel612 mhm

mmmmmmhmmmmm

@Astrum damn straight

Family Guy is the greatest

the bestest, guuuurl

Es ist eine Seele die zu mir spricht = it's the soul that speaks to me?

A*

Hey guurl ... smileyface....

@Astrum protip: edit function :>

i'M LAZY....

oops

caps lock

@Astrum and yes, that's correct (except for the missing comma after Seele)

@Astrum Pro Protip.. just use arrow up

wooooooo

@Vogel612 i was just gonna mention that :D

@Vogel612 danke schön

it still bothers me there is no similar shortcut for replying to messages

Minecraft doesn't have anything like that either, and it drives me nuts

w8 what?? you want to edit chat messages in MINECRAFT??

no

he's saying for the @ function

und ja ich weiß, dass satzzeichen keine Rudeltiere sind..