"Her name is Gretchen. That's a German name, right?"
No.
"Gretchen", while totally archaic, is based on a German name, yes.
But this "Krettshn" thing Americans mutated it into is definitely not.
This is the original German pronunciation:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/De-Gretchen.oga/De-Gretchen.oga.mp3
Also, keep in mind that "-chen" is a diminutive suffix, "Gretchen" literally means "little Greta". It feels very strange for us when the person is an adult.
Hi, I'm Qwynnyx (they/them).
(Pronounced as Welsh Gwyn & Greek Nyx, i.e. /ˈgwin.niks/ or preferably /ˈgwyn.nyks/)
I'm a #university #student of cultures who first developed writing.
I did #egyptology & #assyriology i.e. #AncientMesopotamianStudies for my bachelor's but am now moving to #politicalscience & #sinology (no #mesoamerican studies @ my uni) for my master's.
I speak fluent #German & #English & know some #French but currently study #Mandarin #Chinese in #Taiwan.
#Introduction
#NeuHier
Cool workshop for your #girls in #Vienna #Wien !
Please share
This summer marks the launch of the free workshop "Volt&Byte"!
University lecturer Sonja Schobesberger will guide girls and young women of any knowledge levels and cultural or educational backgrounds on an exciting two-week journey into the world of electronics.
Designed to be culturally inclusive and gender-sensitive, this hands-on workshop welcomes participants who may have had little or no prior exposure to tech. Whether you're just curious or already a tinkerer, this is a space where everyone can learn, create, and experiment together.
This course in #German, English or #Farsi will take place at the Wissensraum of the ScienceCenter-Network and the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, including coding, building circuits, and making music with #Arduino boards!
If you're interested, you can register at the email: voltandbyte@protonmail.com
Exit, stage left: X, formerly Twitter.
10th January 2025: https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/university/news/bauhausjournal-online/titel/universities-and-research-institutions-leave-platform-x-formerly-twitter-united-for-diversity-fr/
"Universities and research institutions leave Platform X (formerly Twitter): United for diversity, freedom and science
"Over 60 German-speaking universities and research institutions have decided to take a stand and collectively announce their decision to cease activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter). This withdrawal comes in response to the platform's current direction, which is incompatible with the core values of the participating institutions: openness to the world, scientific integrity, transparency, and democratic discourse. …"
"Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X … Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values” …"
"University of Brighton, University of Sussex, and other like-minded institutions should – now – be at the UK forefront of what began in Germany. … Now. Do the right thing. Please."
#diversity #freedom #science #integrity #transparency #democracy #discourse #openness #universities #research #UK #Leeds #German #Germany #Deutschland #ElonMusk #X #Twitter
WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON
[sic]
(Housemate sent me this and it seemed highly relevant to my #mastodon feed filled with dinosaur lovers, language obsessers, and people who speak German)
[Auf Deutch in das alt-text]
#shitpost #dinosaurs #language #german #deutsch #paleontology
![Screenshot, probably from tumblr----
© swaggersbackto-theimpala
I JUST REALIZED WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT DINOSAURS SOUND LIKE! THEY COULD’VE BEEN SPEAKING FLUENT GERMAN FOR ALL WE KNOW
[Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass wir nicht einmal wissen, wie Dinosaurier klingen! Sie hätten auch fließend Deutsch sprechen können.]
@democracykills
it’s too early for this
[Dafür ist es noch zu früh]
@redvinesgiraffe
GUTEN MORGEN HERR PTERODACTYL
@fieldbears
WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON
@marvelous-freeman
Oh my god neither of those are dinosaurs and there’s 145 million years separating them both, this post is a palaeontological disaster.
[Oh mein Gott, keiner von beiden ist ein Dinosaurier, und zwischen ihnen liegen 145 Millionen Jahre. Dieser Beitrag ist eine paläontologische Katastrophe.]](/proxy/post_attachment/469193/0dfedcda90.png "Screenshot, probably from tumblr----
© swaggersbackto-theimpala
I JUST REALIZED WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT DINOSAURS SOUND LIKE! THEY COULD’VE BEEN SPEAKING FLUENT GERMAN FOR ALL WE KNOW
[Mir ist gerade aufgefallen, dass wir nicht einmal wissen, wie Dinosaurier klingen! Sie hätten auch fließend Deutsch sprechen können.]
@democracykills
it’s too early for this
[Dafür ist es noch zu früh]
@redvinesgiraffe
GUTEN MORGEN HERR PTERODACTYL
@fieldbears
WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON
@marvelous-freeman
Oh my god neither of those are dinosaurs and there’s 145 million years separating them both, this post is a palaeontological disaster.
[Oh mein Gott, keiner von beiden ist ein Dinosaurier, und zwischen ihnen liegen 145 Millionen Jahre. Dieser Beitrag ist eine paläontologische Katastrophe.]")
It hurts me to say this, as an #American, but people need to avoid the #USA for 2 years, at least, 2027, when the #Democrats can get a majority in #Congress and stonewall #Trump
If that doesn't happen (which would be a serious tragedy), then 4 years. And if we get a #MAGA/ Trump president in 2029, write off this country for a generation at least
"A #German Thru-Hiker Has Been Detained, Deported, and Banned From the #US Without a Hearing: Here’s What You Need To Know"
You look on the #USA with disdain
And you should
But as an #American drowning in this shit we are a warning for you
It's not all #Kremlin #disinfo bots, it is the #bigotry in our countries
I am not shifting blame
But:
#Domestic and #geopolitical #troll farm can establish a power dynamic that amplifies #hate, and it matters
Fight it
Better than we did
🙏
"#Putin’s #disinformation networks flood #socialmedia in bid to skew #German #election"
I make or maintain #games for #Luanti:
🌳 Repixture <https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/repixture>
⬜ Glitch <https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/glitch>
🌋 Hades Revisited <https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=19121>
and more.
🦔 Outside of Luanti, I’ve helped to bring #Hedgewars version 1.0.0 <https://hedgewars.org> out.
🔣 I keep maintaining #German #translations of various free softwares.
#Hello again!
I migrated to this 
#Mastodon instance to explore and engage with the 🧑🎤 #Metalhead community and focus my own music project located at https://this.ven.uber.space
As a musician who uses #FLOSS and 
#Linux to drive 🎸 guitar tunes and a researcher of #CyberSecurity I am also interested in #FreeSoftware, #InfoSec, #ITSec, and #Privacy.
You may talk to me in #English or #German, listen to my releases via 🎧 @thisvenmusic and 📺 @thisvenmusic@makertube.net, or meet me at conferences such as #Sonoj.
#Intro #Introduction #Introductions #MastoMigration #NewHere
One of my favourite #German words is "ausschlafen".
It literally means "sleep out", and sort of translates to "sleep in", but the connotation is different. It isn't negative or that you slept late into the morning, it's more like that you got all your sleeping done and woke up naturally instead of to an alarm (or young child).
Something to strive for.
LiberaForms kann Deutsch! 🎉
Version 3.4.0 is now available in German, as well as English, Spanish, Basque, Catalan, and French!
A big thank you to all the translators, especially @kirschwipfel for making this possible.
For more info and instructions to upgrade, please check: https://blog.liberaforms.org/2024/11/07/version-340/
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Community #privacy #FOSS #deutsch #fedide #German #LiberaForms340
📷 #Germany has unleashed self-learning¹ AI camera systems on it's citizens.
AI + Mass Surveillance = Human Rights violations Made in Germany:
🇬🇧 https://madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-surveillance-human-rights-violations-made-in-germany
🇩🇪 https://madeindex.org/de/ki-massenueberwachung-menschenrechtsverletzungen-made-in-germany
Sources:
¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXQ_E6AZTXQ&t=158
#Tech #Privacy #Government #Artificialintelligence #Software #IT #News #Mannheim #Deutschland #KI #MadeinGermany #HumanRights #Surveillance #kunstlicheintelligenz #uberwachung #AI #camera #regierung #nachrichten #georgeorwell #german #deutsch #BadenWurttemberg #parody
#Introduction Hi! I'm Bill.
I'm a big fan of #retrogames starting from the #NES (born in 1984), also some #NintendoSwitch and #PCgaming. I play #MTG, mostly on Arena. I'm a professional #sysadmin in healthcare and an amateur #musician in February (#FAWM). Father to two #cats.
I'm #British but moved to #Germany because of #Brexit so I talk about #UKPolitics a lot and I'm learning #German. I'm #autistic, #antifascist, and try not to make the same mistake twice.
Pleased to meet you! 
#introduction! I'm a pro #guitarist with the band Maggie Speaks. Freelance video editor (indie doc Cover 21: Ignite Chicago, on Amazon). Amateur #photographer.
Interests:
#guitar
#music
#musician
#audio
#recording
#MusicProduction
#photography
#VideoEditing
#postchat
#camera
#design
#typography
#tech
#ios
#apple
#privacy
#history
#micromobility
#infosec
#cybersec
#law
#AI
#aerospace
#UnitedKingdom
#LatAm
#EU
#austria
Languages: #english #spanish #german #espanol #deutsch #francais #italiano
Hi everyone,
I am looking for hashtag recommendations or account recommendations on the following topics #Language #Russian #German #AufDeutsch
Any idea?
The new German trans ID law has come into effect yesterday! 🥳🏳️⚧️🥳🏳️⚧️🥳🏳️
You can now (start the process to) legally self declare your gender, without needing all that BS medical gatekeeping (there used to be a surgery requirement!)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_%C3%BCber_die_Selbstbestimmung_in_Bezug_auf_den_Geschlechtseintrag
#SBGG #TSG #trans #deutsch #germany #german #deutschland
Child A's first wobbly tooth fell out yesterday at nursery, and they didn't even notice! We only spotted the gap in the evening when I was helping them brush their teeth. They were very upset they couldn't leave anything for the #toothfairy , or get a coin for it. But don't worry, #German paperwork to the rescue. I created a mini 'lost tooth' form that we've filled out and put under the pillow instead, I'm sure it'll work out 😉
I found a pen-pal on conversationexchange.com to help with my German writing!
If anyone here wants to get to know me a bit better auf Deutsch send me a dm!
My name's Gwyn, I'm 35 and a #welsh/ #australian blend (born in Aus, raised in Wales, live in Aus, parent from each). I'm a bit of a #goth, love the melancholy and the macabre, which ties in well with my bachelor's in #history tbh.
I'm also #gay, #nonbinary (he/they) and proud parent to my beautiful son Shiro, who is ten years old and also a cat. Currently trying to learn #german and beat #eldenring for the fifth time on the #ps5
Pleased to meet you ☺️
👋 Hey everyone, I’m Alex (he/him).
Formatting my #Introduction as a main post with replies for my various interests.
📱🪪
#Apple #iOS #Software #Developer #Engineer
🎮📸
#VideoGames #Nintendo #Pokemon #GameBoyCamera
💬🤟
#Languages #ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #French #German #Latin #Spanish
3️⃣🖨️
#3D #3DPrinting #BambuLab
Hello everyone!
I am a #freelance #zzp #translator based in the #Netherlands, translating from #English and #German into #Dutch. My areas of specialisation in #translation are #advertising/ #transcreation, #fashion and #beauty, #art and #culture, #travel and #tourism, and #BookTranslations. I love #language, #books, #museums and #London.
Ok, I tried every single app under the sun for the learning genders in German.
I made something that works for myself.
I put the code and everything here:
https://sr.ht/~prma/DerDieDas/
Under GPL-3.
This little prompt is going to pop up every single time that I open my terminal (approximately 100 times per day).
![two commands.
One on the top is a terminal prompt that asks this:
___ Vorlesung
directly under I have answered with "das Vorlesung".
the application with red colors gave me this feed back:
article did not match!
correct article is: die
right behind it I ran ddd and this help message has been printed on the terminal:
DerDieDas
Usage: ddd [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
Commands:
completions
new Create a new entry
list List stuff
ask ask stuff
import import stuff
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-c, --config <FILE> Sets a custom config file
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version](/proxy/post_attachment/119327/1445abac5b.png "two commands.
One on the top is a terminal prompt that asks this:
___ Vorlesung
directly under I have answered with \"das Vorlesung\".
the application with red colors gave me this feed back:
article did not match!
correct article is: die
right behind it I ran ddd and this help message has been printed on the terminal:
DerDieDas
Usage: ddd [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]
Commands:
completions
new Create a new entry
list List stuff
ask ask stuff
import import stuff
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-c, --config <FILE> Sets a custom config file
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version")
I guess instance migration is a good time for an #Introduction post. Hello lovely people, I'm here both as a scientific researcher and as a human being, and you can expect a range of genres of posts and interactions from me.
On the work side, I'm a computational scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the field of biological X-ray crystallography, specifically at free electron lasers. It's a glorious interdisciplinary mess, and the description I give to non-scientists is that i use my degree in chemistry to write software to do math that models the physics of experiments that we're running to learn about biology.
For fellow structural biologists: I work on crystallography data reduction software for the steps between photons hitting the detector and a merged set of structure factors. I also support XFEL experiments, both on site and remotely, and assist in post-experiment data processing as needed. My PhD focused on using simultaneous XFEL crystallography and XES spectroscopy to probe the water splitting reaction in oxygenic photosynthesis. I did a postdoc in computational methods development for cryoEM, and I'm now back to XFEL crystallography but still in methods development.
For fellow software developers: all of our work is open source and mostly under the cctbx project/repo. It's mostly python with a bunch of C++ under the hood (including some low-level stuff redundant with scipy and numpy because those weren't around yet!), plus a user-facing wxPython GUI. More recently we've done a ton of work with GPU acceleration (using Kokkos, for NVIDIA, Intel and AMD architectures) and scaling up at three different national labs' supercomputing centers in anticipation of next-gen experimental capabilities. I derive too much joy from writing bash-sed-awk monstrosities on the occasions we need them to fix an urgent problem during an experiment, and I guess I'm most proud of the fact that I somewhat understand git.
As far as hobbies, the longest-standing one is probably #coffee, followed closely by #language (s) / #languageLearning and a love of #patterns and #symmetry in various contexts. I have too many different ways of making coffee (they have overrun my coffee cupboard), but my favorite remains the classic latte, and by now I can make a better latte than I can buy. I'm trying to refresh my #Japanese and learn #Dutch and #German simultaneously/comparatively, which of course is terrible for speed of learning, but fascinating. So far I've found #ASL the most challenging but also deeply satisfying -- I only have one semester under my belt but hope to take a lot more. I studied and continue to study all the #math and #science I possibly can. Right now I seem to be pretty engrossed in #electronics, #CAD, #3DPrinting, and just generally #DIY-ing/fixing/repairing things. Other active interests include #sewing, #reading, #cooking, #bike commuting, and #publicTransit. My journeys in #aikido and #pottery are on hold but I definitely want to pick them back up when I'm not already overcommitted. I'm casually interested in #neurophilosophy, #neuropsychology, #neurodivergence and #neuroscience. I've taken one course in neurophilosophy and can read literature in the rest, with effort.
On a personal note, I'm trans and nonbinary and very open about it -- I transitioned back when I had to explain what that meant. I've retired from some forms of community engagement and support but I'm very happy to answer any questions I can about the US legal and medical landscapes, available resources, policy and terminology best practices, or whatever you know you shouldn't ask [person in your life].
Finally, I spend a lot of time with my cat Rory (pictured), who is perfect and the most affectionate creature I have ever met. I promise to share photos of him from time to time.
