So you stole it? How dare you! You wouldn’t kidnap a child!

Depends on your position on that. Special military operation to give Christmas back its rightful place in the year.

The war on Christmas…

Isn’t Al Gore vs Bush an even better example?

Sure, there are ways but I honestly don’t see the benefit now that streaming is fast. I want to watch a movie or series once and don’t need to own it, especially since I can restream it or download it from the streaming site

It was the goto streaming site back then. We all learned out lesson once it was down. I looked it up and it was online from 2008 to 2011, feels longer for me but I was torrenting alot before that. German law is strict on torrenting so streaming is the way to go here.

Your analysis fits neatly into what the book Because Internet describes as different waves of “internet people”. First were geeks who went there before it was mainstream, second us millennials growing up as it is getting mainstream, alongside older folks forced to use it at work or voluntarily at home. Third wave are GenZ growing up when everything is easy already and, ironically, also even older folks now that it’s accessible for them.

Boy, I remember how desperate all of Germany was when kino.to went down. It took at least a week until everyone found an alternative!

I honestly didn’t know what I was implying but I like your interpretation

Don’t remind me of that… but you are right thought, I did fall victim to one of the classic blunders

For more information read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Remindes me of when I, a fool, fell victim to one of the classic blunders

Communism is when you collect stones to build a bridge

I’m fine with illusion. Nothing is real anyway

This is three dimensional and the water reflects what is above?? The future is now!

Reminds me of the Lingthusiasm episode where the Canadian and the Australian hosts discuss a book about the differences between British and American English. Both fell somewhere in between

Sane

You got it all wrong! Babbel is an app to learn other languages, no punishment of any sort.

Just kidding, it’s an app to make monkey, not to help people.

it’s less that English simplified them and more that it never developed case marks for them.

Well, Old English baggs to differ. English lost its case markings on articles early on and kept them on nouns a while longer while German kept them on articles and simplified nouns much more early on.

In contrast, not only German repurposed the demonstrative “der” (that, which, who) into an article in a cleaner way

… as did English with “se”/“þē” which started as a demonstrative the same way der/die/das did.

but it’s also dumping most grammatical case info into the article

Again, German didn’t dump anything into articles but rather lost it everywhere else.

There is this idea that this fostered the process of using der/die/das much more often (which made it from a demonstrative to an article) but I disagree because it was a widespread process, not only in German but in huge parts of Europe, including beside Romance languages also English were this reasoning doesn’t work (as shown above).

c/nottheonion