janggolan

randahl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Danish has so many borrowed words from English, German and French, it sometimes gets confusing.

If you saw the word "teeen" with three E's, you might think it had something to do with teenagers, but no.

Wherever English puts "the" in front of a word, Danish augments the word with "en". This is why "teeen" in Danish is actually the English word "tee" (like a golf tee) followed by "en".

So "teeen" means "the tee", and "basketballen" means "the basketball", and "kajakken" means "the kayak".

janggolan , 4 months ago to random

#Russia attempting to develop nuclear space #weapon to destroy satellites with massive energy wave, sources familiar with #intel say...
https://cnn.com/2024/02/16/politics/russia-nuclear-space-weapon-intelligence/index.html

futurebird , 5 months ago to random

Suppose you have a satellite phone and excellent GPS— is it reasonable to avoid large bad storms and big ships in a sailboat? Let’s say you are pretty good at sailing. Would you need something bigger than 20’ to confidently avoid danger beyond your keel dappling around on the open ocean. (and you can provision and stay out of port for a month no problem.) No time tables but several places you want to get to eventually.

(it seems possible to me but ima harbor and sound baby)