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Dr. Word Person
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Linguist with an interest in various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies; currently an MS student at Uni Stuttgart. Native of Texas. I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
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I am in a class with a lot of foreign students and I see them using their phone/laptop to look up words.

Which is also what I do in foreign language lectures! So helpful.
...okay now you have to tell me which one of your books I should read *first.*

You kind of had me at Pteranodon warplanes but of course I am open to other suggestions.
You are just knocking these out of the park!
Ich habe mich es erfreut, aber mein Deutsch so schleckt ist, dass ich fast nichts verstehen konnte. Ich sollte mehr Wörter lernen...
I get to learn astronomy and German at the same time!
That sounds so scary. I'm glad you're still here.
Even with critique groups, it's like, don't prejudice them! Which parts are working well is also important information!
I once went to a musical performance masterclass where the musician made the point that you should never put down your own work, even if you thought it was substandard, because what if someone didn't see that and enjoyed it? Now you've robbed them of that enjoyment.

I think about that a lot.
(To be clear, desperation for attention and not desperation to have your basic needs satisfied! Two different things.)
Or desperation. Or self put-downs.
I don't mind people pitching their creative projects in a way that is joyful, because it reminds me that books/music/games/whatever are awesome, but otherwise...
If you can stomach a lot of incredibly depressing things, I thought the entire series was a really interesting watch for the striking differences between US and German presentations of the same material (less whitewashing of graphic brutality, the US comes off a lot worse, but so does Germany TBH.)
I am not an economist, but the German broadcasting service ZDF has a ten-part documentary *in English* about the rise and fall of the third Reich, and one episode discusses the hyperinflation situation (start watching around the 16:15 mark if you don't want the broader context.)
Deceit and Delusion 1923-1928
By 1923 the Nazi Party had grown to around 55,000 members, with Adolf Hitler at its head, presenting himself as the strong-man of the right-extremist scene, but what was he up to?
www.zdf.de
I read that novel and it was sooo good! Like, it would be an amazing standalone novel even if it didn't have the DS9 connection.
Yeah same. I would really love to finish the chapter I'm revising!
This was a rather unremarkable German city of that size.
Endear me to you = now, you like me more than you did before
Endear you to me = now, I like you more than I did before
Anyway, I wish that everywhere used this sort of city planning. Getting around by bike did not make it harder to do anything, was a complete game-changer for my happiness and level of fitness, and the cyclists/cycling infrastructure did not at the same time make things worse for me as a driver.
Some notes:

-- My town had dedicated bike paths in places, and bike parking almost everywhere

-- Car speed limit on city roads was 30 kilometers per hour (18 mph), and some areas were exclusive pedestrian/cycle zones.

-- Cyclists were everywhere. Even grandmas ride bikes!
After your errands, do you want to experience the joy of nature? That's cool, you can take your bike and literally ride straight into the woods.

The only place where car wins are (1) large cargo loads, and (2) point-to-point transport between places not well served by train.
The doctor? The pharmacy? The city center? Ten minutes. Nearly the same as a car! And you can park CLOSER to where you need to be.

Need to go into the big city? Bike to the train station. And then you can-- get this-- take the bike with you ON THE TRAIN.