> Die besondere Art meiner Inspiration ist die, daß ich alles kann, nicht nur auf eine bestimmte Arbeit hin. Wenn ich wahllos einen Satz hinschreibe, zum Beispiel "Er schaute aus dem Fenster", so ist er schon vollkommen.
So many great ones.
> Alle Dinge, die mir einfallen, fallen mir nicht von der Wurzel aus ein, sondern erst irgendwo gegen ihre Mitte.
So true. Indeed only more true these days now that I've long forgotten that quote, than back in the day when you'd find me reciting it left and right.
> Wenn ich etwas sage, verliert es sofort und endgültig die Wichtigkeit. Wenn ich es aufschreibe, verliert es sie auch immer, gewinnt aber manchmal eine neue.
Alas, can't find the one I'm actually looking for.
Curious that I shouldn't have marked it up. A good half of every other page is marked up in a vivid gamut of colours.
Maybe only fitting that the one and only quote I actually remembered I never actually underlined.
Still it's quite wonderful to hold a book in your hands that you last held in your hands a quarter of a century ago.
Try that with a Kindle.
People don't know what's good for them anymore.
The other day on YouTube someone commented that you shouldn't buy CDs of classical music in this day and age where the whole world is drowning in plastic.
I commented right back, sorry to hear you only buy CDs of classical music to toss them into the ocean, but rest assured us regular folk can't afford such an eccentric hobby.
Every CD I even bought is still sitting right behind me as I'm typing this.
Actually just a couple months ago I bought a CD box of all the music from NieR:Automata. Cost me quite some buck. But all I ever did was immediately convert it to MP3s to listen to on my phone.
I don't think I'll ever listen to the CDs.
But I would have never in a thousand years considered just buying it as a digital download.
: to keep (something, such as one's thoughts) to oneself she hoarded her intention — Virginia Woolf the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity
> We have also found in testing that new users, in particular, panic when asked to press any key. Over 80% of them will turn around and say, "but what key should I press?" In questioning them about this response, we discovered that they are quite convinced that even though the prompt implied that all keys were OK to press, some could be dangerous. Of course, they were quite right.
= Русский =
=== Морфологические и синтаксические свойства ===
э·ни-ке́й-щик
Существительное, одушевлённое, мужской род, 2-е склонение (тип склонения 3a по классификации А. А. Зализняка).
Корень: -эникей-; суффикс: -щик.
=== Произношение ===
МФА: [ɛnʲɪˈkʲeɪ̯ɕːɪk]
=== Семантические свойства ===
==== Значение ====
комп. жарг., шутл. шуточное название штатной должности работника, обязанностью которого является техническая поддержка пользователей компьютера внутри компании, а также сам работник, занимающий такую должность ◆ Со временем эникейщик, если он продолжает обучаться в сфере IT...
@Cerberus cannot relate to that one at all. Utter nonsense. Think any workshop of any master of any trade at all. Blacksmith, painter, brocade maker, Adam Savage, Beethoven. Anyone. It's sensory overload. Full of things. Filled to the brim.
And the mess is not a mess at all. It is actually quite organized in a whole number of ways. It's just a ton of things. So it appears utterly overwhelming to someone who enters for the first time. But the person that has been working there for decades knows to navigate every inch of it.
Oh, Einstein. I forgot Einstein. His desk was famous for being "messy". There are photos of it.
Remember that TV program we discussed a couple months ago, "the last one of his trade". I watched every episode of it. So many different professions with absolutely nothing in common. So many different people from all corners of the world and all walks of life.
But one thing they all had in common. The "mess" they worked in.
A wonderful, gorgeous mess.
And again, I don't mean disorganized. Absolutely not. Just organized in a way that is not immediately apparent, and that indeed might not become apparent after many months of studying it.
Think not landfill, think apothecary of the old kind. You walk in and there's all those myriads of shelves with a billion bottles on them. It's completely impenetrable. You can't possibly find a thing. But in reality it's exceptionally neatly organized.
@Cerberus well, someone did make up every single word...
But nah, I actually googled this one, apparently it's quite well established. I just never heard it before.
Even though I try to keep up with the trends and follow quite a bit of people whom I totally expect to use just that kind of lingo. But somehow they never have.
And to be fair, quite a few of the search results that I got were videos or posts titled "what is an эникейщик".
So apparently it's a niche word. Even though I follow a whole bunch of niche people. I dunno.
Present continuous tense Rules. Auxiliary verb “am or is or are” is used in sentence. 1st form of verb or base verb + ing (presentparticiple) is used as main verb in sentence.
Question: Can we form the with verb ill?
For example:
I am illing or I am ill. What is the right and why?
Totally a good subject, for which there are possible very good answers (an extension of my comment). 'Research' could be added to the OP, but then that would answer the question.
@Tonepoet My question addresses one logistical aspect of the process of learning English. It is an English "meta-question". Additionally, other users of this forum will likely find RegDwight's answer useful (as I have) because everyone here has one thing in common: we all want to learn how to better use English. — Ryan Jensen1 hour ago
@RegDwigнt I don't have the heart, nor the means, to tell him why people sometimes answer in the comments. >_> ...
@Faerd It's mostly two letter single syllable words in general. Laughter also gets the same treatment. Hahaha in English and kekeke in Japanese for example. In English, songs are also rendered in la la las sometimes. Moreover, while I would agree that the affirmative sentiment is less common, I wouldn't be too terribly surprised if somebody said ya ya ya for reduplication of the affirmative.
@M.A.R. Hmm, that's not quite the same though. That's usually a closed pair than an open series. With that having been said, I suppose I'm just spouting out a bunch of blah blah. :-P
Also, your cedilla is broken. Here, I have a couple spares lying around: ç ç ç ç.
But yeah. I don't like being transparent or predictable. And not for the sake of other people's entertainment, but for the sake of entertaining myself. I've not been bored in two decades. Not for a minute.
Like, that's why people have so much fun following me on MuseScore. You never know what I'll post next. I never know it. Everything I do is always out of left field.
@Xanne as far as I was concerned that was a coinage of my own right there and then. An occasionalism, or whatever the linguistics term is.
I just took a regular phrase, "quite a lot of money", and then replaced some bits and pieces in it with random synonyms.
I do that all the time. Keeps things interesting.
That's the beauty of language — and music —; you don't have to repeat what others have said before. You can come up with your own stuff.
@RegDwigнt Well, it’s not unique. It’s just odd. Bucks are dollars, not, I think, Euros or pounds or lira or marks. Yet it shows up in English on-line forums. Maybe the Brits use it.
@RegDwigнt yes, one of the false positives comes up with a forum of antler collectors, which are collected after shedding. A promising deer is thus quite some buck. But unlike you leg, antlers are an annual event.
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