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Droggelbecher

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  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • Haha close, 950 commuting down to 600. But it's the same down there in the city. Most of my social contacts as well as my work are there, anyway!

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • The former is what I used to think, but I've been noticing she does it in one-on-one conversation as well, and as far as I can tell, that's the case for everyone. Also, in written assignments, in the beginning, it would be, for example, 'schreibe [...]' and is now 'escrivez [...]'

    It's also a uni class, so not all students are younger than the teacher.

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • I'm in Austria speaking German and I'm learning French. Our rules for 'du' are very different from the ones in Germany though, and vary wildly regionally- from using 'Sie' for your drinking buddies to using 'du' for authority figures. From what I gather in this thread, the rules in Germany and France are similar?

  • If you speak a language that has a formal 'you', when do you use it?

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  • How about in a uni class? My teacher uses 'vous' and 'du'. That's what prompted the question!

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  • I could answer my own question, actually!

    For reference, I'm in western austria, speaking German. The class I'm taking is A2 French.

    My region is pretty different from most of the German speaking 'world'. We use the formal you much less. The informal one is more or less th default, except:

    You're in secondary school. The teachers will use the informal one for students and the students have to use the formal one for most teachers. In high school, students can technically request that teachers use the formal you for them, but nobody does. I teach night school, and nobody used the formal you. Most of my students are very roughly around my age.

    You're seeing a doctor you don't repeatedly go to, e.g. at the hospital. We use informal you for the specialists and GPs we see regularly, unless they're ~60+.

    You're a bachelor's student. Formal you for both students and professors. Unless the teacher is a masters or PhD student, then informal you both ways. Masters and PhD students tend to use informal you with professors and vice versa, but some professors will be the exception and there will be formal you both ways.

    Court. Formal you, except between a lawyer and their client.

    Some stuffy, old fashioned workplaces use formal you, but only between boss and employees, very very rarely between employees. If it's some higher level management person you don't usually work with, it's more likely you'll use formal you both ways.

    Super specific, but 80+ year old people who've never lived outside a city will want kids to use formal you for them, but they'll use the informal one for the kids.

    German tourists. We're aware that informal you is more common in Germany, and try to me courteous. Except those of us who hate tourists, lol.

    That's all the exceptions I can think of! For everyone else, including strangers (e.g. when asking for directions, cashiers, waiters, etc.) we use the informal one!

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  • Yeah, and on a scale of 0-10, that integer overflows to 0.

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  • One of the few benefits of autism. I grew up never being 'with it' and have more or less always been content with that. Seems tiring.

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  • Well that is a nice illustration for the fact that listing an h index with no context doesn't mean much.

  • Twinkle twinkle little star

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  • Some of them might, a lot of them won't. But most of them would be happier if personal freedom of expression weren't at direct odds with professional fulfilment. Just like, yano, human beings in general.

  • Twinkle twinkle little star

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  • Girls want to be able to choose how to look. Femininity often causes people in the sciences (and other places too) to take you less seriously. So, there's negative consequences to choosing to look pretty, making it less of a free choice.

  • Which food gives you the best bowel movement?

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  • Should combine that with brown lentil Bolognese. That's my (also vegan btw) poop-even-better-than-usual food.

  • I'm fine with being stupid

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  • Given enough time and known lengths, most of my students should be able to calculate the surface area of this by the time they graduate. They'd just split everything into triangles and quadrangles, use the formula for each, then add everything together. It's not that useful of an exercise though, didactically speaking, because once you grasp that process, it's just repetitive and lengthy. There'd have to be a LOT of given values to make this solvable, too.

    On a more subjective note, they can also form sentences. They just don't want to when colloquial speech brings the point across just as well and it's an informal setting. The same is true for most people of all ages in my experience.

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  • Nobody specified where they live

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  • Sibling and I were visiting my mum. Neighbour kids were playing outside when we arrived. They loudly asked 'why does the boy have long hair and the girl short hair?' Mum said 'Because they each like their hair that way!' and the kids were also like 'yeah that makes sense'. Kids love learning new stuff, it comes easily to most of them to learn that humans can differ.

  • How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

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  • In my experience, it's much more often:

    1. be young
    2. be very passionate about the ability to afford food and shelter

    It's honestly weird how most of this thread acts like everyone can pick and choose their employment all the time. Most of us can't, at least not always.

  • Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?

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  • In my circle this doesn't seem uncommon. I feel like more of an outlier because I don't really watch YouTube or anything similar.

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  • Government assitsence? Nobody specified where they live.

  • men aren't men anymore

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  • Idk what you're talking about, used clothing is both the most affordable and the gaudiest. I love it.

  • People who don't/can't sleep when they're "supposed to", why? What do you do during this time?

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  • What do I do during this time? I lie in bed with my eyes closed and try to fall asleep. I get up every half hour to hour and have a glass of water in the dark or something like that.

    Do people mean 'i don't want to go to bed' when they say they can't sleep?