The big problem with doing TTYD auf Deutsch is that now my brain is slipping back into wanting to speak Danglish all the time but nobody I talk to would understand if I just started slipping "sondern" into my sentences
Also sometimes I almost say sentences with German word order
"Sondern" is such a good word, tho, is the thing
You use it to say "but rather" in the sense of like
Lenin is not dead, but rather lives forever in the hearts of us all
Lenin ist nicht tot, sondern lebt er in unserer Herzen.
Iunno, I just really like to use it, it's a good word
@coriander if people can sprinkle their vocabulary with random french words to look smart i think you can have a few german ones, as a treat
@Lady do people still do that with French?
@coriander @Lady recently @Satsuma used the word “accoutrements” casually in conversation and i was caught completely off guard by their purronunciation because i had only ever heard it purronounced like in French up to that point
@Lady @coriander @Satsuma i have no idea what that means but okay
@aescling @coriander @Satsuma anyway an important piece of the plot of the book takes place in a store called “Pinn’s Accoutrements” so i got to hear Simon Jones say the word “accoutrements” many times
@aescling @coriander @Satsuma look i listened to the Amulet of Samarkand audiobook a lot as a kid