What kind of bee is this?

[George K]

@Klaus said in What kind of bee is this?:

@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:

The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns.

Yes, but in German nouns have a gender, and as you can imagine that opens up a whole new can of worms for the "woke" language police because they can't understand that linguistic gender is something completely different from biological or social gender; it merely happens to share the name "gender".

How short-sighted of me.

[Klaus]

@George-K Take the innocuous German word for student: Student.

It's "der Student". Male gender. Hence it has become unacceptable to address mixed groups of students as "Studenten".

You have to choose between

• "Studentinnen und Studenten" (but it's also not good because it includes only female and male gender"
• "Studierende" (which is the most common variant but it's rather silly because it's the continuous form of studying: a person who studies right now)
• "StudentIn" - this used to fashionable common 10 years ago by student groups
• "Student*in"
• "StudX"

[Doctor Phibes]

I always thought that Das Madchen was primarily created to confuse English schoolboys. Only now do I realise there's a far more insidious reason.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What kind of bee is this?:

I always thought that Das Madchen was primarily created to confuse English schoolboys. Only now do I realise there's a far more insidious reason.

You're missing an umlaut....

[jon-nyc]

He’s missing a lot more than that.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:

You're missing an umlaut

I heard a story yesterday that Motley Crue added the umlauts because they thought it made them look more Teutonic, and then when they played in Germany were surprised when the crowd all chanted "Muttley Cruh!"

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What kind of bee is this?:

@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:

You're missing an umlaut

I heard a story yesterday that Motley Crue added the umlauts because they thought it made them look more Teutonic,

More or less. But it's actually a more universal thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

[Doctor Phibes]

What's the German word for saddo?

[Larry]

Fahrfrumhappy

[Aqua Letifer]

C'mon. "Kïll Cheerleadër" is hilarious. And they get bonus points for being a punk-metal band and Canadian at the same time.

[89th]

Now it’s BeeLM vs a WASP. Got it.

[Aqua Letifer]

@89th said in What kind of bee is this?:

Now it’s BeeLM vs a WASP. Got it.