So if many people (still a minority by a large margin of course) started writing things like “I would of visited the museum’s today but I saw two rare bird’s, their just so fascinating.” it should become correct?

It’s not like a majority is using apostrophes for the genitive in German. But since it’s so easy to spot the few % of miswritten genitives just stand out.

Gar nicht so weit entfernt… Wurde 1939 gegründet

In German we simply add an s for the genitive, and we add an apostrophe when a letter is missing.

For example Jacob’s book would be “Jakobs Buch” ¹ but John’s book would be “Johannes’ Buch”, not “Johannes’s Buch” ² and also not “Johannes’’ Buch” ³.

¹ not “Jakob’s Buch”, which is called the “Deppenapostroph” - fool’s apostrophe

² fool’s apostrophe

³ fool’s apostrophe and a second apostrophe to mark the cancelled letter

The genitive is nice, convenient and useful, yes. But there’s no reason to add an apostrophe when no letter is missing.

(And as explained above, no, it is not foreign, this isn’t changing anything in spoken language either, it’s just a common spelling error due to commonly seeing it in English)

To draw a comparison regarding how annoying it is for anyone who cares about written language: It’s quite similar to as if people in English suddenly started marking the plural with an apostrophe. Or if “would of” instead of “would have” would become correct.

You can stop it any time you like

But you can never leave

The only thing that carried me through rough times was a hobby where I regularly meet a group of people for sports. Then you live so you can go there again the next week.

Unrelated but does Eternity correctly support Links now? (to comments / threads)

This drove me to Jerboa, but I prefer Eternity’s UI so I’d be pleased to go back if that’s fixed.

At least in Austria the first e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä.

On the other hand many actual ä are also much closer to e than to ä in Austria so ig it might be different in Germany.

I like to say that there was a bad side and an even worse side, so I’m glad the bad side won.

Wasn’t Trump banned from Twitter

You’ll remember that the Jews weren’t the only people the Nazis targeted - they weren’t even the first.

To add context: in the KZ Mauthausen (don’t know numbers for other KZ) only 20% of the people were Jewish. Most were Slavic, some other minority, political opponents or (basically also political opponents) people who refused to comply with the regime.

But then there’s also the seven heads (seven trump headquarters), getting shot in the head thinking it’s fatal but surviving seemingly through a miracle, the ones about his relations to the kingdom to the south, resulting in criticism from the north and east etc

Of course it’s coincidence (at some point there just has to be someone who can be accurately described with these prophecies) but it’s still very interesting

I don’t believe in the coming of an antichrist but damn, why do so many prophecies written two millennia ago point to one specific person, especially when those prophecies are so specific

I like to read the biblical texts as texts you have to interpret. Basically like fairytales and fables are in versions that aren’t from the brothers Grimm and especially Disney - they often were used to carry points that wouldn’t have been tolerated by authority if they hadn’t been covered like that, or simply to tell about some aspects of life.

When reading it like this the Bible is an extremely interesting book, and I’m saying that as an atheist.

I’m using Firefox as my only browser. If everything works in Firefox that’s fine for me.

That’s the best advantage of only making websites / web applications for fun (for friend groups, video games, family etc)

Cardio

Elder blossom syrup?

Wouldn’t e halfway to a be ä

The short e in Mercedes is much closer to e than to ä

The difference is so narrow that I wouldn’t notice any difference apart from the length, the first and last e are very slightly shorter than the middle e. And of course you have the usual going-down-with-your-voice-at-the-end-of-the-word

Yes, and since we’ll never have understood everything there will always be magic :)

It was originally a military airfield during the war, which explains why there are bombs in the ground.

Eh, at my local train station in a bigger city in Austria they still find American and English bombs every year. Whenever something is dug up for repairs or to expand the train station or for whichever other reason, a bomb specialist is examining the area first, when they find a bomb they either safely remove it to detonate it somewhere else, or if its too unstable (roughly every five years if my memory serves me right) we get radio broadcasts warning us when it will be detonated so we can prepare (close all windows, sometimes those living near it have to leave their houses).

That train station wasn’t involved with the military (apart from soldiers using trains for transport, but by that logic you can bomb anything because soldiers use houses for sleeping and hospitals for medical treatment etc.), but sadly both Germany and the UK tried to destroy as much as possible in the other country.