The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Vimana]

One of many minor complaints about something academic: Fuck. I have to write a paper by Friday comparing and contrasting three African civilizations with three non-African civilizations. This would be easily doable if the teacher spent more than ten minutes on each African civilization. We seriously spent more time on the last Punic war than we have on any of the African civilizations we learned about (besides Egypt).

 

[CF87]

FUCK

 

[A1a23]

FUCK

 

[Vimana]

Derinsula, this word I made up while high me and my friends and their friends use apparently means "the island" in German. The spelling of the word is a derinsula.

 

[mutantllama]

FUCK

 

[Zephyrus]

Derinsula, this word I made up while high me and my friends and their friends use apparently means "the island" in German. The spelling of the word is a derinsula.

That cannot the fuck be right. 'Insula' is Latin for island and is a feminine noun, and 'der' is the masculine nominative definite article in German. "Die Insula" is arguably correct, since German does borrow a lot of Latin, but what you propose is utter trollop.

 

[damnromulans]

How are German gender-neutral nouns determined? I will never understand why three genders are necessary other than "to confuse people."

 

[-CC-]

Derinsula, this word I made up while high me and my friends and their friends use apparently means "the island" in German. The spelling of the word is a derinsula.

It's Die Insel

 

[Zephyrus]

There we go.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Pretty sweet seizure-inducing "fuck" gif, ZoN!

 

[Cronopio]

How are German gender-neutral nouns determined? I will never understand why three genders are necessary other than "to confuse people."

Well, apart from nouns that are obviously neither male nor female, you have the words ending with the diminutive suffix -chen or -lein, e.g. Mädchen or Äuglein (from das Auge; don't forget the Umlaut!).

Also, if you're making nouns out of verbs, which is a not too uncommon practice in German, they're mostly neutral, e.g. das Gehen (from the verb gehen), das Warten (from the verb warten), etc.

 

[King Richard]

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Zephyrus]

Well, apart from nouns that are obviously neither male nor female, you have the words ending with the diminutive suffix -chen or -lein, e.g. Mädchen or Äuglein (from das Auge; don't forget the Umlaut!).

Also, if you're making nouns out of verbs, which is a not too uncommon practice in German, they're mostly neutral, e.g. das Gehen (from the verb gehen), das Warten (from the verb warten), etc.

Also helps with the Latin and Greek loan words not to have to change their gender if they're already neuter.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Boring! Just teach us all how to say "suck my cock you rotten cunt" in German.

 

[Cronopio]

Blas mir einen, verdammtes Arschloch.

(not literally what you requested, but along those lines)

 

[CF87]

If you saw my last picture posted. That's what a shitty as woman can do to you!

 

[Blind Guardian]

German might still have three genders, but unlike Swedish it doesn't have pluralized verbs, lololol what a simpleton language amirite?

 

[Cronopio]

Pluralized verbs? WTF? Example plz.

 

[Blind Guardian]

De gingo.