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Around the turn of the century, my brother was working as a freelance recruiter and he picked up a contract from a certain discounter/supermarket chain of German heritage (no, not the one beginning with L). They had stocked up with PCs for their UK punters and were selling them to people who were giving them as presents at Christmas time...
Only, luckily, a few people actually wanted to try out the discount PC crapiness straight away... Only to find that there was a "Z" where the Y should be and vice-versa and things like [, ], {, } were now "unobtainable", having been replaced by ü+öä. and when the PC started it was all in German Yes. They had ordered them from the now defunct Peacock computers in Germany and the manufacturer had pallets of the things ready to ship, only they mixed up the orders and the UK got part of the shipment for their German stores.
They were hurriedly looking for some IT bods to roam around the country on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the through New Year, to replace the keyboards and install a more British version of Windows on the PCs. The pay was allegedly not bad, but you needed to have your own car and some of the customers lived in less salubrious areas and I didn't fancy coming out from refurbishing a PC to find my car refurbished sans wheels, windows and interior...
"Vater" and "farter" are actually shockingly close. I didn't even realize until a British guy asked me how Germans pronounce "Vater" (of course he knew). After I spoke it loudly three times he said "Ah, I understand! Just like ..." and let one rip that stunk up the room beyond what should be humanly possible.
"Flasche" (pronunced like "flush-e") and "flasher"? Not convinced.
Anyway, Friday activity is calling ------->
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Compound nouns and homophones are the least of the problems. I still struggle with the unholy trilogy of preposition + case + gender! Most languages have either preposition or case but the Jormans do like to make it difficult for themselves, which explains why so many of them struggle with the genitive!
"Flasche" (pronunced like "flush-e")
Nope, the short English "a" is very similar to the German "a" and nothing like a "u". This, along with treating "a"s as "e"s leads to all kind of confusion. For Germans Microsoft's shitty desktop database is Microsoft Excess and for which you may an "apdate"… I think there's a conspiracy amongst English teachers to teach them embarassing pronunciation. The justification is always "that's how the Americans say it" – which of course they don't.
But when it comes to the parents, it's safe to adopt the Biffa Bacon pronunciation: Fatha and Mutha (or Mudda). The stress on the first syllable keeps the vowel shorther than the English.
Oh, feck it, time for a beer. Wassail!
Weird... I just put that into the Microsoft Translator app and told it to pronounce it. It actually seems to get stuck and repeat several parts of the word several times, meaning the full (alleged) pronunciation takes over twelve seconds. Tried it on two machines with the same result. It also seems to happen in the Bing Translator. Try it for yourself – quite amusing.
Honestly, I'm just surprised no-one has brought up the subject of Danube steamboat captains and their administrative arrangements yet.
Allow me:
"Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft"
Beer, because Friday, Germany, and sunshine.
Romanian word = english translation.
Precum = such as.
Cum = How
The former i learned from my new cycle instruction manual, these days a CD with some 50 languages installed. Fat load of use that's gonna be when i have a problem 40 miles from home.
An embedded system just needs to work. It doesn't need to be -- and shouldn't be -- updated every five minutes.
Windows is a relatively easy GUI to develop for so a lot of people have built systems on top of it. Some such as those who develop industrial control and monitoring systems, have come to regret this but they tend to get stuck with it because Corporate uses it on their desktop and so they mandate it company-wide.
There's no guarantee that a modern version of Windows 10 will be any more reliable than a copy of Windows 7, especially if its not connected directly to the Internet where the various vulnerabilities of this system are open to exploitation.
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