Don Antonio Magino

Not just this US administration, see the The Hague Invasion Act.

I thought they were all playing Kerbal.

Why would the European Space Agency do such a thing…

Nice cat.

I use Dutch, because I’m one of the three Dutchmen that actually likes his language and I don’t want to see English all day.

Probably The Longest Day. It was my favourite movie as a kid, because I was very into World War 2 back then. My sister can recite all lines in The Lion King, for me that’s with The Longest Day.

I like the delivery of the lines, the acting and the shots. There’s a really impressive single shot from above, where masses of Brits (I think) fight through a French town. There’s lots of explosions and a bridge which is destroyed. All one shot, really impressive especially for the time (I think). I also like that it’s not a purely English spoken film. I don’t watch movies in which ze Germans speak English, sorry. This is a really long movie though, three hours.

Another pick might be Coming out. Not a very good film I think, but I watched it quite a lot when I was younger. It’s an openly queer film made in the GDR and therefore already very special. Even more so as it had its premiere on the very night the Berlin Wall fell.

It’s about a guy who meets a girl and goes out with her, ends up moving in. Then, he randomly enters a gay bar and gets into the whole cruising thing. Then he finds a guy for real, but he still has his girlfriend. This goes wrong, of course. Interesting is that, near the end, an elder in the bar tells him that he was a loyal member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD, pre-war), but that didn’t help him as a gay guy. Now, it doesn’t matter if you’re jewish or whatever - but if you’re gay, people still hate you.

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World peace through extermination.

More like mussels and bolus.

Using humans like robots, what a wonderful idea!

It’s still interesting to analyse them like the cultural products they are.

This doesn’t have anything to do with language acquisition by babies, though. Spelling is a completely different subject than natural, spoken, language, and obviously not something babies will come into contact with.

No language is easy to learn for people who never grew up with it (as in, it always takes effort), and every language has quirks. You’re arguing for it being hard to learn a language - this is true - not for English being uniquely hard.

But relatively speaking, whether a language is easy or hard to learn largely depends on the languages you know already, especially as your mother tongue. Dutch is very close to English, and English has borrowed a lot of French vocabulary, so if you know those languages you will not have too hard of a time learning English. To someone who only knows Mandarin, English (and French, and Dutch) will obviously be completely foreign, in everything: grammar, vocabulary and syntax.

Never. I live in a city with proper public transport, and I live close enough to the city center that I can easily walk there, or go by bike if I prefer.

I am considering getting my driving license, though. It’s useful for certain jobs, but it’s really expensive.

I’d have guessed emperor Wilhelm II, but it seems to just be a German officer.

Great choice. I love his pictures, they look so good, it’s as if he had traveled back in time with a digital camera.

Or ‘This is just a distraction from the Epstein files!’

and would appreciate if you’d keep your politics more to yourself.

This. Though to be fair, speaking as a Dutchman, our media are also still completely obsessed with American politics. Can’t blame that on Americans.

Even when Trump starts a nuclear war you guys will pretend it’s just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Terrorist country #1