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Comment Why do they decry it now? (Score 1) 284

I was "lucky" enough to be a student at the time of the orthography reform in 1998. And at that time, I learned that this apostrophe was allowed then and everybody made fun of it and/or cried about the English influence.

Why is this making the headlines now, some 26 years later?

Comment non-native speaker here (Score 1) 25

What would be a better term?

The literal German translation has the same sarcastic connotation that you're implying here but is also often used as "what they call".

I.e." since it launched its what they call "foundry business" "

Would this be a better wording? Or is there shorter version without the sarcastic subtext?

Comment Re:Diesel locomotives are all generators (Score 1) 275

If there are/were direct-drive Diesel locomotives in operation anywhere, they were a niche. All Diesel locomotives are just portable generators that drive electric motors.

They may be the case where you're from. But in Europe especially in the former Eastern bloc there are still quite a lot of direct Diesel engines on the rails.

Comment Dev thinking they know what's best for the user (Score 2) 124

That is what makes me the angriest about it - and possibly more than it should. It's just another dev thinking they know better than the user - and disabling everything else. IMHO that dialog should have enabled everything that's technically possible. Not what "makes sense" because that's subjective. Of course, there are certain combinations that have lots of disadvantages for most use cases. But then just spit out a warning and/or let the user type "I know what I'm" doing or something similar.

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