l am German and I had the same impression. English was silly easy to learn (I may still have a slightly harsh pronunciatian, though).
No gender-dependent conjugations and the grammatical exceptions are sparse (mainly a few special cases around the tenses).
But learning French, another dual-gendered latin language: total nightmare.
So my surprise that Spanish is supposed to be easier to learn than the already quite easy English language…
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Why would Spanish be easier than English?
I would judge it to be slightly harder because of gendered words.
Too long to be a haiku, I am afraid.
But now that I have reread it… Yes, has some poetical potential…
l noticed it yesterday and I think some time before that already.
But didn’t see it today, only some fluffy white stuff in the sky.
So perhaps it is gone again?
It’s held in position by something named “gravity”.
Thing is, we don’t completely know yet, what the nature of this “gravity”-thingamajic is and how exactly it is actually working.
So dropping might be a possibility…
l don’t want to unsettle you, but there is a huge, brightly glowing ball, mainly consisting of 10^30 kg hydrogen or so, hanging in the sky. :-)
l mean, represents the majority of the baryonic universe, so…
Can I please just have a handful of RAM and enough ports to connect my stuff?
I am living in Germany, which has one of the stronger privacy protection laws.
But this was
a) more than 20 years ago
b) considered public data (distributed to every household in printed form any way), so the privacy laws of the time didn’t apply.
The only legal disputes I remember were over questions of copyright for the entries in the phonebooks.
[Edit]
Just checked: at least one of the services still exists and works exactly as I described it before:
https://www.dasoertliche.de/
If you click on “Rückwärtssuche” you open the reverse search.
Here is a phone number to try it with: 0897003671
Note the “Routenplaner” link on the result entry, which shows you a map and lets you plan your route to the number owner.
They already digitized the books and put them online in searchable databases 30 years ago.
Even including reverse number search (which my socially awkward self loved back then) and later integrated map routing to the address of the number’s owner.
So this argument doesn’t hold.
Yes, but even then it was generally only true for the remaining fixed landline phones. Felt just like a public knowledge part of your address, like putting your name on the doorbell button.
To be generally valid for mobile phones you probably would have to go back another 10 years.
Those truely were different times still, also online.
I even remember posting my mail address to a public register at the end of the 90s to distribute the public part of my pgp key…
Well, I am pretty convinced most of the mentioned issues are actually intentional design choices.
Google does want neither the users, nor the app owners to have the best experience, but to control their actions in a way that generates the most revenue for Google.
Prime example for Enshitification.
From Google’s point of view, it must not change any of the issues, as everything is working perfectly for them already.
For me basically anything where the ring finger has to act independent from the others is a little bit hard, but still doable.
(11 is one of those numbers)
So ring finger, middle finger and thumb raised?
Is this some hand sign with special meaning I should be aware of?
He probably assumed the sentence selection to be a statistically independent process, which it is not.
Sometimes its harder to not try 132.
You can even count to 59k using ternary, introducing a third, half-raised, finger position.
So… meaning pig birth rate?
Kinda obscure joke, but ok…
l am German and have learned French as my second foreign language.
French’s two genders are slightly nightmarish and German’s three genders are no better.
Similar for the slavish languages with genders I had a peak into. I expected this to also be similar for Spanish, at least compared to English that I perceived to be quite easy to learn.
Interesting to hear otherwise.
So I now wish that Spanish had been an option at my schools. :-)