_Gandalf_the_Black_

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[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 3 points 3 months ago

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

That refers primarily to people or things; which refers primarily to things, and who refers primarily to people. Some authorities insist who/whom be used when making reference to people, but others, such as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, write that such prescriptions are "without foundation" and use of that in such positions is common and "entirely standard".[2] Hence, one sees both "he is the man who invented the telephone" and "he is the man that invented the telephone."

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's not even close. Has to be the stick.

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I prefer eleventyleven

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But not every microscopic organism is an animal

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Good job it was just animals then

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 7 points 3 months ago

Just learn both! But ich_iel has a lot more going on, so prioritise German.

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 8 points 3 months ago

Spaßfakt: Das letzte Mal, dass ich Tee getrunken habe, war letztes Jahr in Deutschland mit meinen deutschen Freunden. Und ich bin Angelsachse.

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 7 points 4 months ago

sic lingva Latina scribebatvr

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Hobbits absolutely do have a class system

[–] _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de 2 points 4 months ago

ich_iel steht im Hintergrund

 
 
 

R5: PIE *h~2~o > o (although in Anatolian languages h~2~ is preserved as h), and it also looks like the chemical formula for water H~2~O, and French eau means water

 
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