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45 sats \ 2 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 14 Jun \ parent \ on: Have you noticed zoomers calling everything a "bit"? culture
yes i do. Irony poisoning everything doesn't seem healthy.
Low quality.
Low quality everywhere. At work. When I buy stuff as a consumer. Everywhere.
At work I am annoyed how few people really strive for excellence, most people just want to pass time and survive. Few people really want to find solutions, make solutions that are resilient, have longevity, and want to genuinely help and excite customers.
As a consumer I often see myself not buying anything at all (which is good too) or only going for the very high end flagship stuff. What irritates me the most here are people who say they "buy less but only high quality" and then not fucking buy high quality.
No. 3 languages is not at all uncommon in Europe. Basically mother tongue + one foreign language + English as lingua franca.
I wouldn't be so sure if the states that manufacture the most now would be the states that benefit the most from "made in america". An example here would be Boeing making lots of stuff in Washington State. They already make lots of stuff in the US.
On the other hand what I love about English is how much range it has. You can talk in slang or use AAE words. There are pretentious Latin phrases you can put in everywhere. A British "village" accent is so different from Queens English/BBC English, is so different from a southern accent or a generic American accents, is so different from Aussies or Nigerian or Indian English. You can talk fast and slow.
Ofc German has lots of accents too - they might even be much more distant from one another than English accents. French can have quite a range too. But it subjectively feels not as vast and as freeing oneself as English.
I speak English, German and French.
I only ever feel like switching back to German when I want to say something with a very precise meaning. German has what we call "Nominalstil" which basically means German has a lot a lot a lot of nouns. This is good for when you want to communicate about something very narrow, very precise.
French is, imo, a fun language to just make casual smalltalk. I feel the filler words like "bref", "alors", "donc", "eu" are so much more expressive. You can communicate so much vibes casually here. When english uses filler words "um", "uh", "hmm" they feel even more empty. Related are filler words like "like", "well", "so". Boring filler words.
