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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For High German, orange was a rather new concept in Goethe's time around 1800. In his work on color theory he does use the word Orange, but often speaks about red-yellow and yellow-red

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Since you didn't specify the language(s) (okay, and as a typologist), let me link to the basic color entry in WALS. With black and white counted as primary colors, it's probably unlikely to speak of 7 colors of the rainbow with only 4 or 5 terms for them in your language. wals.info/chapter/133

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WALS Online - Chapter Number of Basic Colour Categories

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You probably already looked at the Wikipedia entry and Newton, but just to be sure - section Number of Colours... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow

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Rainbow - Wikipedia

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ooih, the Whiskers of O Z! 😸

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, how long you have to pay back the stipend? Ah, I see 🧐

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ja, und das ist halt seit 10 Jahren so in der CDU Sachsen-Anhalt. Zweimal nach Koalitionsverhandlungen, frontal gegen den eigenen Ministerpräsident. Die alternative Lesart: eine ganze Partnerfraktion oder große Teile von zweien haben genau einmal die Koalition abgelehnt 😵‍💫 bsky.app/profile/sand...

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, Greenland. Palestine for resorts was on the table of your US government, as well, right?

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So, sure, that's not the main issue or main driving force for threats to annex 2 to 3 states (in the usual global sense) but it's not exactly helping to force others to work around the USA appropriating a term for two continents. bsky.app/profile/shjs...

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Beyond the different stages and organizations, there's also a Europe without Russia, thus probably w/o Belarus, but nowadays Ukraine is probably included... and so on. Switzerland? UK? Norway?

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

German: no plural for Amerika, ever, so we use Nord- und Südamerika + plural verb (not unusual grammar). And yeah, with Europa vs European Union, that's often an issue.

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trivia: Kohl like many other people tried to overcompensate their "isch" and that's how we got a chancellor talking about "Gechichte".

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I won't recommend it wholeheartedly but you could try "isch" and the like - you add some homonyms like Kirsche/Kirche 🍒⛪ but that's pretty common in dialects aside from stages.

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

» Uncertain, probably related to lauw (“lukewarm”); Huch 🤔 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leuk

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leuk - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Private Sea... I sink it might be about water, so best bee safe for mum 😸

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ohh, but that just means you can come up with that memory from time to time (not complaining, some 45 years later, about my Mama doing that to me 🥹)

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For comparison German public media that sometimes favor CDU somehow, Tagesschau with an MDR journalist - there's some hedging and such, and that's appropriate. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen... www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut... www.deutschlandfunk.de/debatte-um-c...

zdfheute.de

Sachsen-Anhalt: Geschlossenheit der CDU bröckelt - AfD profitiert

In Sachsen-Anhalt kündigte die CDU bei der Landtagspräsidentenwahl Enthaltung an - doch das Ergebnis lässt an der Fraktionsdisziplin zweifeln.

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"...means that four other MPs [aside from Afd, Bsw] voted for the 35-year-old in the secret ballot." Much later, written beforehand: "The AfD claims to be courting members of the CDU to break the firewall, a claim CDU leaders deny." And that's all about that 🥳 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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State parliament elects Germany’s first far-right speaker since second world war

Tobias Rausch secures role of president in Saxony-Anhalt after AfD’s election breakthrough

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Helped by very very probably 4 #CDU MPs. Perhaps more. Kate Connolly in Berlin and/or the #Guardian somehow omit that, while quoting a CDU spokesman. Rubbish journalism, omitting obvious stuff, all over other media 🥳

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More importantly: helped by several CDU MPs. What is that kind of journalism, quoting spokespeople but omitting stuff with is obvious & all over other media? 🫩

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should (add ap'ostrop'hes inside words) 😔

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

10 Jahre schon - 2016 waren sie meiner Erinnerung nach offener damit, primär gegen die Grünen, als alles ausgehandelt war frontal gegen den eigenen #CDU Ministerpräsident bsky.app/profile/sand...

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So you're saying there are billions of billions of neutrino jokes passing thru you every second without any interaction... 🤔

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, 2021 fehlten sogar 7 Stimmen, 2016 waren es 5. Wohl gemerkt: #Afd Ministerpräsident direkt gegen #CDU Kandidat nach Koalitionsv. (Theoretisch könnte es auch teils aus anderen, kleinen Reg.-Fraktionen gekommen sein, aber naja.) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet...

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Sachsen-Anhalt: 48 Stimmen für Afd Typ. 39 Afd, 5 Bsw. 4 #CDU Stimmen, das passt zu meiner Erwartung = wie in den vorigen Legislaturen Stimmen aus der CDU für den #Afd Ministerpräsident-Kandidat frontal gegen CDU…

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ah… yes. 😵‍💫 what. I really haven't followed the steak story, but yeah, there's a lot. Oh, and it's a ZEIT podcast, now that bit is surprising (not).

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mit etwas anderem vor dem Verb wäre es zum Beispiel: "Jetzt kann ich dich schon problemlos verstehen" Die exakte Reihenfolge bzw. die Regeln für die Pronomen werden dann 'etwas' komplizierter, je länger man schaut 🙄

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also besser so: "ich kann dich schon problemlos verstehen, aber …" (mit Akkusativ oder sonst ein anderes Vollverb, z. B. "folgen": "kann dir … folgen")

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ein Tipp: Pronomen kommen ans flektierte Verb ran – was tatsächlich doch 'Wackernagel' genannt werden kann (ich war nicht sicher, wie üblich das ist, weil es indogermanistisch etwas anderes meint). grammis.ids-mannheim.de/terminologie...

grammis.ids-mannheim.de

Wackernagelposition

grammis ist ein Informationssystem zur deutschen Grammatik und präsentiert aktuelle Forschung zu Syntax, Morphologie und Semantik sowie Wörterbücher, Bibliografien und linguistische Datenbanken.

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh, du meinst Sprachskills in action 😏 Nee, echt, also, das geht (eher mit Adjektiv davor), aber sonst wäre es wohl Sprachproduktion oder aktive Sprachkenntnisse.

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

…says he, after first typing the same digit twice (i didn't recognize the wordle-ness)

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ohh, fun one (the word, that is) It's from German Fraß - but the specific usage doesn't seem to be in German. I've heard Wildfraß for plants munched on by deer or the like, but for that stuff I don't really know a specific word en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, and if you're in Ireland (I saw .ie on the package): Guinness alc free is great 😋 cans with nitrogen capsule for real foam - I've only ever seen that from them

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ooh, while you're in Europe, you could look for some pivo from České Budějovice - the alcohol free one is good as well 🍻 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweis...

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Budweiser Budvar Brewery - Wikipedia

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who has two thumbs and both are left?(at least on my phone) 👍🪇👍

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haha, I bet that's on some oldie radio station... 1992, minus 34 years, that would be like 1968 back then... waitasec 🤨

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

is that photo shop?? it's the real but it looks extra Adobe-babble professional super plus™️ 😽

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In any case, we're still waiting for English to finally call the hammock the hang mat that it is (in Dutch and German)

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hone (2) 'refine or perfect (something) over a period of time:' – I find it easy to get some connection. But then, I love me wild folk etymologies, where it's much weirder to argue for a solid reasoning 😏

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🇨🇱 keyword chili works, tho 🤨🇨🇱🇨🇱

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That taco should obviously be Tex first, Mex 2nd. Just after the proud flag of ... [emoji missing]

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fed Up with the F-Man... it's a food podcast 🙂

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sanddorn @sanddorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2006 bis 2021 in Koalition mit der SPD - stimmt schon, nicht lange dominant, aber auch nicht so wenig. Im Bundestag mehrfach CDU vorn (dank Merkel) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesr...

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Landesregierung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Wikipedia

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