2026-05-21 20:24 UTC
Employers expecting people to learn German to get a job remember that "umfahren" (running something over) and "umfahren" (driving around something) are the same word only distinguished by how long you pronounce the a.
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@slothrop@chaos.social 2026-05-22 06:20
@codepo8@toot.cafe sure. OTOH if we started debating all the ways in which English is an impossible language, we’d be here all day.
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@trovster@mastodon.social 2026-05-22 20:32
@codepo8@toot.cafe strangely I’ve just watched a video about these types of words, but in the English language — https://youtu.be/wopcJoJIoJE