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  • In German we simply add an s for the genitive, and we add an apostrophe when a letter is missing.

    For example Jacob’s book would be “Jakobs Buch” ¹ but John’s book would be “Johannes’ Buch”, not “Johannes’s Buch” ² and also not “Johannes’’ Buch” ³.

    ¹ not “Jakob’s Buch”, which is called the “Deppenapostroph” - fool’s apostrophe

    ² fool’s apostrophe

    ³ fool’s apostrophe and a second apostrophe to mark the cancelled letter

    The genitive is nice, convenient and useful, yes. But there’s no reason to add an apostrophe when no letter is missing.

    (And as explained above, no, it is not foreign, this isn’t changing anything in spoken language either, it’s just a common spelling error due to commonly seeing it in English)

    To draw a comparison regarding how annoying it is for anyone who cares about written language: It’s quite similar to as if people in English suddenly started marking the plural with an apostrophe. Or if “would of” instead of “would have” would become correct.






  • It was originally a military airfield during the war, which explains why there are bombs in the ground.

    Eh, at my local train station in a bigger city in Austria they still find American and English bombs every year. Whenever something is dug up for repairs or to expand the train station or for whichever other reason, a bomb specialist is examining the area first, when they find a bomb they either safely remove it to detonate it somewhere else, or if its too unstable (roughly every five years if my memory serves me right) we get radio broadcasts warning us when it will be detonated so we can prepare (close all windows, sometimes those living near it have to leave their houses).

    That train station wasn’t involved with the military (apart from soldiers using trains for transport, but by that logic you can bomb anything because soldiers use houses for sleeping and hospitals for medical treatment etc.), but sadly both Germany and the UK tried to destroy as much as possible in the other country.





  • Euouae

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae

    Euouae (/juː.ˈuː.iː/; sometimes spelled Evovae)[1] is an abbreviation used as a musical mnemonic in Latin psalters and other liturgical books of the Roman Rite. It stands for the syllables of the Latin words saeculorum Amen, taken from the Gloria Patri, a Christian doxology that concludes with the phrase in saecula saeculorum. Amen. The mnemonic is used to notate the variable melodic endings (differentiae) of psalm tones in Gregorian chant.

    In some cases, the letters of Euouae may be further abbreviated to E—E.[2] A few books of English chant (notably Burgess and Palmer’s The Plainchant Gradual) make use of oioueae for the equivalent English phrase, “world without end. Amen”.

    According to Guinness World Records, Euouae is the longest word in the English language consisting only of vowels, and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels.[3] As a mnemonic originating from Latin, it is unclear that it should count as an English word; however, it is found in the unabridged Collins English Dictionary.[4]







  • Update: They won, but every single party has said they will not work together with Herbert Kickl. Maybe with the FPÖ without him though (they didn’t specifically rule that out), but I doubt the FPÖ will be willing to drop him after getting their best result in history so far (nearly 29%).

    The only possible coalitions without it would be ÖVP (people’s party) + SPÖ (social democratic party) + NEOS (center (economic right (less regulation) else left)) or ÖVP + SPÖ + Green Party.

    Technically ÖVP + SPÖ would also work by a very slim margin (out of 92 needed mandates to form a coalition (183 mandates in total) they’re getting 92 or 93) but wouldn’t hold much power (failing to get a majority if one single mandate doesn’t agree to something) which is why it’s more likely that they also include NEOS or the green party.