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Comment · 2 months ago
> Brzęczyszczykiewicz

MAUL HALTEN!

Comment · 2 months ago
> hear 50hz

100Hz, actually…

Comment · 3 months ago
Animate gender didn’t split into masculine and feminine — inanimate collective plural was repurposed as feminine.
Comment · 10 months ago
Excellent. Now do “bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”.
Comment · 10 months ago
This isn’t hard to understand. “Burgher” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” as in “bürgerlicher Mittagstisch”, “Der Bürger duldet nichts Unverständliches im Haus”. “Citizen” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” when it comes to “Bürgeramt” or “Weltbürger”.
Comment · 10 months ago
> In German it really just means "Citizen".

It most definitely does not — it’s both “citoyen” and “bourgeois”.

Comment · 1 year ago
They are not. In their defense, these people are imbeciles.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think you’ll find we’re pedants.
Comment · 2 years ago
> and mild inflammation may occur without noticable swelling.

Calor, dolor, rubor, tumor

Comment · 2 years ago
Golf.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
This is not even approximately true. j is not “defined in terms of E”. It occurs as a source term in one of the inhomogeneous Maxwell equations, and consistency with the other inhomogeneous one (div D=rho) requires that div j = dot rho, which means that j is the flow of charge density. So, I guess if electron movement shouldn’t be referred to as current, we shouldn’t refer to electrons as charges, either…
Comment · 3 years ago
Resistivity is measured in ohms * meter, so this may be a unit conversion issue…
Comment · 3 years ago
> Sure there was the odd professor that would call a stack a "Stapel"

“Kellerspeicher”, certainly

Comment · 3 years ago
I don‘t think that‘s unintuitive. What goes into a source-free volume element has to go out of that volume element (radiation or field).

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