What kind of bee is this?
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 13:59 last edited by
It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 14:41 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:
It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.
Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?
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@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:
It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.
Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 15:38 last edited by@Klaus said in What kind of bee is this?:
@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:
It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.
Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?
Mighty presumptuous of you there, Klaus. How do we know that "bee" should not be capitalized?
The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns. Problem solved.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 15:46 last edited by Mik
BeeLM.
Truth to be told, they matter more than BLM. The humans only pollinate other humans and we can't eat them. Well, we don't, anyway. Kill off enough bees and we might.
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@Klaus said in What kind of bee is this?:
@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:
It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.
Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?
Mighty presumptuous of you there, Klaus. How do we know that "bee" should not be capitalized?
The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns. Problem solved.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 16:34 last edited by@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".
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@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".
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 16:53 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 16:59 last edited by@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"
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 17:03 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 17:14 last edited by@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....
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 17:55 last edited by
He’s missing a lot more than that.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 18:17 last edited by
@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!"
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@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!"
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 18:21 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 18:40 last edited by Doctor Phibes
What's the German word for saddo?
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 19:00 last edited by
Fahrfrumhappy
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 19:12 last edited by
C'mon. "Kïll Cheerleadër" is hilarious. And they get bonus points for being a punk-metal band and Canadian at the same time. -
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 19:33 last edited by
Now it’s BeeLM vs a WASP. Got it.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 21:19 last edited by
