Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

its button jerked like a nipple.

I would expect the German case system to be greatly simplified if not to disappear all together, like has happened to other Germanic languages.

Yes, me too.

The orders, icons, metadata - customisable.

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Metadata???

Files' properties.

The hard button? The real touchable one at the hinge, I meant

The interface - customisable. The appearance - customisable. The orders, icons, metadata - customisable.

I need that the "switch the damn machine off" button opens THE THREE-BUTTON MENU rather than - EVER - just shut the machine down... Without any confirmation asked from me!..

I made the jump from a machine that ran XP Media Center Edition (based on XP Pro but with a few more "toys") to this machine which runs Windows 8, and am at a loss to figure what the problem was "having to learn Windows again".

EMET v4 needs Microsoft .NET Framework v4. How poetic.

I also had some issues asking for Sprudelwasser at this one restaurant. I wasn't then aware that the term in the south was Tafelwasser, but that hardly seems like a reason to immediately start speaking English to me.

Right, I mean the wood barrel one. This is totally Estonian (or German if you wish).

Still, I vastly prefer the Estonian variety (must be close to German) over Russian.

How a bus can "of course" be a tram is a secret that eludes me to this day.

Dutch Wikipedia makes some unsourced claims that Sauerkraut might've originated in northern China, was taken along to eastern Europe by the Mongols, and made its way from there across Germany to the Netherlands with Ashkenazi refugees.

Men's best friends...

My country is highly literate and small enough so that dialect differences should be non-existent, ...

Is it fast on Windows?

I gave Otter a quick try in a virtual XP. It's surprisingly functional and fast already, but there doesn't seem to be any attempt at implementing customization yet.

I suppose I could use Opera 12 with the Tor network but I don't know how to do it.

• Download and install the Expert Bundle.


• Start Tor.


• In Opera's manual proxy configuration enable SOCKS.


• Proxy server: 127.0.0.1; Port: 9050


• In Opera's Preference Editor enable "Use Remote SOCKS DNS Lookups"

Okay, that's a bit out there, because I've met plenty of Germans who certainly speak with the case system in full attire.

Quote from: krake on 2013-12-29, 13:08:20

Ach, was für ein süßer Hase.

She probably said "ein", but I'm not so sure she said süßer. (Of course it's hard to say seeing how it was sometime between '05 and '07.)

• Firefox removed features like an easy Javascript toggle, small icons mode, and other customization options.

To add insult to injury, it’s already possible to download an add-on called “Classic Theme Restorer” that transforms the UI back to its classic look.

Incidentally, Germans don't seem to care too much about the difference between a hare and a rabbit. "Ach, was für eine süße Hase," a German girl once said about my pet bunny.

"the dove took her food from the gutter" and I'm like "but how do you know it's a female dove;

What if you don't know?

"Dat meisje ziet er hongerig uit. Geef haar wat te eten." Still, I think that might be acceptable in spoken German?

That's not necessarily any different from "it".

Using Google Earth, an Indian man managed to find his home town.

Another Bloody Mary, please...

Oh, yeah. It might be interesting to search for his 'nym (and previous banned ones, although I forget what they were) ...