Mlller

8 ms·

1.
by Mlller 1y ago
This tale of the Grimmsʼ collection was contributed (in a Low German dialect) by Philipp Otto Runge. His main profession was painting, and he designed a color model using a sphere.[1] His interest in colors certainly left a trace in the ela
2.
by Mlller 1y ago
The article nearly equivocates “Rather Useless” and “unambiguously the worst”. Python3 seems more coherent to me than the article's argument: 1. Python3 plainly distinguishes between a string and a sequence of bytes. The function `len`
3.
by Mlller 1y ago
That would be … "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 … for Javascript.
4.
by Mlller 1y ago
“Max and Moritz” is not Grimm but Wilhelm Busch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_and_Moritz
5.
by Mlller 2y ago
No, the pressing issue of the Willy-Nicky telegrams was that Russia had mobilised her troops against Germany. Speaking about the Hague conference while setting troops in motion is hypocritical: you should wait out lengthy proceedings while
6.
by Mlller 2y ago
Regarding the alphabetical order, I think one of the oldest alphabetically organized dictonaries extant is ‘Alphabetical collection of all words’ by Hesýchios¹. In his preface (written as a letter to a friend named Eulogios), Hesychios w
7.
by Mlller 3y ago
What I said is the position held by historical linguists focussing on early Ancient Greek, e.g. Strunk (who wrote the paper about aeolisms that are archaisms), Leumann, Meier-Brügger (Griech. Sprachw. II W 201.2 quoting Leumann “Versetzung
8.
by Mlller 3y ago
The point at issue I was referring to was yours, not his. I had the passage in mind I quoted; to quote and refer more concisely and precisely perhaps: “But, when they created it [= Iliad or Odyssey] originally, they used their own contempor
9.
by Mlller 3y ago
On the other hand, the point at issue was not turgidness or unnaturalness but (emphasis mine): “Likewise, do you translate it into contemporary English or archaic one? Old texts are sometimes intentionally translated into archaic languag
10.
by Mlller 3y ago
“robigo”, genitive “robiginis”, feminine.
11.
by Mlller 3y ago
I, conversely, lack the knowledge to quite get the allusion to a Hallmark card or a Thomas Kincaid painting. I guess that Kincaid paintings are considered subpar by connoisseurs. That wouldnʼt be the thing with Morgenstern. He is popular, b
12.
by Mlller 3y ago
Yes, but somehow it worked in a not-so-tangible way. Germany for one apparently gave much more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations than it got out of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
13.
by Mlller 3y ago
I have heard the opposite: that the United Kingdom was, as a rule, an important ally for the economic policies favoured by Germany and others. E.g., “So far the following EU countries have announced that they oppose Eurobonds: Germany, Unit
14.
by Mlller 3y ago
Yes, you are right, and the whole story of the laryngeal theory is quite exciting. – Saussureʼs initial evidence was a set of Sanskrit forms; and his argumentation went like: - There is e.g. a root meaning ‘carry’ having the full grade “bʰa
15.
by Mlller 3y ago
Thank you, thatʼs it: one of the biggest validations of the methodology for reconstructing languages. – Little nitpicks, if you allow: - Saussure reconstructed only two of the three consonants now called “laryngeals” and called them “coeffi
16.
by Mlller 3y ago
> Germany in particular asked hundreds of thousands of people from Turkey to immigrate into Germany to help rebuild it after WW2. Not quite, because the earliest wave of Turkish immigrants came after the migration agreement between Turke
17.
by Mlller 3y ago
That doesnʼt add up, because one of the most – arguably the most – irritating hesitations affected the main battle tanks (you have mentioned them, too), and that was long after gas imports from Russia and any hopes for a renewal of such imp
18.
by Mlller 3y ago
Marginal note: This statistic covers only the time span until Feb. 24th, so it doesnʼt comprise Germanyʼs “Biggest Military Aid Package Yet” (ca. 3 Billion) – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/euro
19.
by Mlller 3y ago
If that is the point (which is not clear to me from the start of this subthread), it is rather settled: The linked article shows that Germany could get over not buying Russian gas anymore well; and it sends vastly more military aid to Ukrai
20.
by Mlller 3y ago
Sorry for my unclarity, but I understand the point at issue (of GP and this thread) to be how a prolongation of mutual economic relations with Russia was not justifiable morally, not how well a country could cope with an abrupt end of these
21.
by Mlller 3y ago
“Eastern Europe has been parroting […] Germany stuck its fingers in its ears” Or perhaps Germany couldnʼt hear them, because their actions spoke louder than their words – a majority of Eastern European countries had made themselves more de
22.
by Mlller 3y ago
A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher is electricity-free and the technology seems to have been invented in Iran some millennia ago. (But maybe itʼs not applicable everywhere and too costly for too many people.)
23.
by Mlller 3y ago
OTOH, why sad? I would have found the info sad if Romanians including the middle class could not afford enough heating and had to shiver in winter, whereas people in Germany lived in overheated apartments. According to what you say, many pe
24.
by Mlller 4y ago
A related hypothesis[1] connects the Tambora eruption in 1815 with the colors of the sky in paintings made in the years thereafter, e.g. “Greifswald im Mondschein” ‘Greifswald in the moonlight’ by Caspar David Friedrich in 1817, see: https
25.
by Mlller 4y ago
“Follow-up question for German speakers: I was sometimes asked 'When were you born?' as 'Wann bist du geboren?' which would be a word-for-word translation of the English. Is 'Wann wurdest du geboren?' with the
26.
by Mlller 4y ago
When Alcuin writes “Nec audiendi qui solent dicere” ‘And those people should not be listened to who keep saying’, he implies “sunt qui solent dicere” ‘there are those who keep saying’ and that the affirmative use of the proverb is older tha
27.
by Mlller 4y ago
“[…] not so because they were sold on Bismar[c]k's theater.” Actually they were sold, and it wasnʼt just theater (‘this man means what he says’), but of course it was indeed the cold calculus of self-interest – that was one of the thin
28.
by Mlller 4y ago
No, Bismarck didnʼt, because he didnʼt start them (esp. not No. 1 and 3), and he could win them – among other reasons – because he didnʼt start them (that was the point about allies and benevolent neutral parties). As I said, this is ofte
29.
by Mlller 4y ago
For the benefit of future authoritarian, empire-hungry leaders, letʼs correct the historical lesson Bismarck & Co. can provide: - The first of the three wars was a reaction against Denmarkʼs attempt at annexing Schleswig. Prussia and Au
30.
by Mlller 4y ago
No, in the heatwave of this summer, some French nuclear plants had to be turned off because the rivers in which the cooling water had to be released had become too warm. (Further French nuclear plants had to be turned off due to technical p

More ›