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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • I can’t argue with that, because the German “wenn” is definitely more ambiguous than the English “when”, but since it’s a lullaby, you kinda have to assume that perhaps it’s leaning more on the positive side, because who on earth would want their baby to die in their sleep?

    If Germans really were this cruel, they would have been wiped off the face of the earth a long time ago.



  • This seems to be a mistranslation, because in German, “wenn” can mean both “if” and “when”, but it’s actually closer to “when”. If you really mean “if”, you use “falls” instead of “wenn”.

    So the intended meaning is in fact “tomorrow morning, when God wants it (ie. at the time God wants it), you will wake up again”
















  • Relatable. I was forced to learn French in school so I’ve always hated it out of principle, but at least our teacher was a legitimate Frenchwoman and could bring out the sound and the melody of it. Quebecois, OTH, is a legitimate abortion of the language. Take the most abominable dialect of the English language you’ve ever heard and Quebecois still sounds 10x worse than that. Not even I could butcher the language with that much hatred and disrespect.