Dämnyz

Posting such a controversial question and putting in onion rings on this list is bkardwring on rage bait

I did the same, but I never had any negative interactions on .ml tho. The folks over on Hexbear are a different kind of strange, but harmless in the end, and of course you regularly read bullshit on all instances, but it’s just different tastes of shit, the ammount stays the same. After I switched from Reddit to Lemmy I started to encounter such a plethora of different opinions, it’s insane! :D If the deal is that from time to time I have to tolerate some idiot picking a fight about communism or Russia or Gaza or China etc., I gladly accept. One Thing you really have to give too all the tankies is that (on average) they are far more likely to cite sources for their claims. Do they do it so you can learn, or to smugly proof a point? I don’t care

The thing with cases for nouns in German is that after you surpassed the first hurdle in understanding them, it just makes so much sense. If you place languages on a spectrum from syntactical to context based, you find Latin basically on the far side of syntactical. Almost everything regarding relations of different parts of the sentence can be cleared up by suffixes, whole subordinate clauses are packed into 2 words without any comma. English on the other hand is very much dependent on context. The word order is paramount, there are like 30 tenses which are not concerned with time, but relation to other actions or dozens of case-by-case rules and meaning is often inferred. But the upside is that it’s studiply easy to reach a level where you can hold a normal conversation on the streets, especially when you already speak a Roman language. It’s just very inefficient and far less unambiguous. While German is not as syntactical as Latin, it’s much closer to it’s roots. Gendered nouns should be a thing of the past and I see my prescriptivism leaving my soul every time I talk about them.

Gatekeeping advocacy against a genocide is the wildest kind of lib brain