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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Zastie:
Can always call with number-assigned contacts.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: anahata on 20 May 2016, 23:07 ---I wouldn't even be able to use my cell phone without my glasses...
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He has a smartphone. I haven't used the actual dial-pad on mine more than a couple of times since I got it. Half the time I don't even take it out of my pocket either.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 20 May 2016, 11:12 ---Ugh, this thread, for days, has made me wish I had taken German. I feel I have a better grasp of the umlaut, but I feel that way having only heard it a handul of times, none of which I remember clearly. I can count to three, I can talk shit in the most literal sense, and that is it.
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I don't there's much to grasp. It's anorthographic convention that indicates that this is the front equivalent of the corresponding back vowel. It used to, and still can be, written as an <e> after, the <e> started being writen on top, which eventualy morphed into the umlaut. I've seen it writen as an <e> on top even in 20th century texts, though, and it's still very common to write it as an <e> after.
Storel:
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 21 May 2016, 05:45 ---
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 20 May 2016, 11:12 ---Ugh, this thread, for days, has made me wish I had taken German. I feel I have a better grasp of the umlaut, but I feel that way having only heard it a handul of times, none of which I remember clearly. I can count to three, I can talk shit in the most literal sense, and that is it.
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I don't there's much to grasp. It's an orthographic convention that indicates that this is the front equivalent of the corresponding back vowel. It used to, and still can be, written as an <e> after, the <e> started being writen on top, which eventualy morphed into the umlaut. I've seen it writen as an <e> on top even in 20th century texts, though, and it's still very common to write it as an <e> after.
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I was taught that writing an 'e' after the vowel rather than an umlaut above the vowel was usually done as way of writing German words in languages that don't have umlauts, like English. I see it a lot in the names of families whose ancestors immigrated to the US from Germany: Koenig instead of König, Schaefer instead of Schäfer, Schueler instead of Schüler, that kind of thing.
Also, I think chaospersonified was talking about understanding how to pronounce umlauted vowels. Maybe you were too, but if so I have no idea what "the front equivalent of the corresponding back vowel" means, sorry.
I didn't know that it used to be written as an 'e' on top of the vowel, though; very interesting! I wonder how on earth the 'e' got transmuted into two dots.
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 21 May 2016, 02:55 ---
--- Quote from: anahata on 20 May 2016, 23:07 ---I wouldn't even be able to use my cell phone without my glasses...
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He has a smartphone. I haven't used the actual dial-pad on mine more than a couple of times since I got it. Half the time I don't even take it out of my pocket either.
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Do you just wiggle your hips and say "call Joe"?
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 20 May 2016, 21:39 ---Thought Clairemom WAS Claire for a second.
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All anyone sees is the red hair...
--- Quote from: Lanika )O( on 20 May 2016, 06:31 ---I think I love your brain.
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Why, thank you! It's not for sale, though.
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