Jakobus Netz

Jakob ist Jacob oder Jake.

That worked, thanks.

Tried to add my alt account on a different instance to the moderator list of the only magazine I own and got a nonsensical error message: Value isn't blank, but the error message says "This value should not be blank"

I should have edited my comment. What doesn't work yet is sending a private message to someone on another instance.

@Funkymatt You want something that tells people that doing a U-Turn is a normal thing to do with a car?

@Moeaverage

Can you send it to @curiosityLynx or curiosityLynx on Reddit (haven't deleted it yet because I want to make sure to edit my comments as subreddits go public again)? kbin doesn't have private messages yet.

@0xtero Well, boosting is more like retweeting to your microblog for your followers.

@holo_nexus

Schadenfreudler /ˈʃɑː.dɘnˌfrɔ͜ɪd̥.lɘr/

If you don't know how to read IPA, roughly "SHAAH-then-FROYD-ler"

Btw: I just constructed this word based on my native speaker intuition. I doubt that you can find it in a dictionary, because it's not something one would force into a single word. A more natural way to say what you mean would be "Leute, die (hier) (auch) Schadenfreude empfinden", which translates to "people who (also) feel Schadenfreude (here)".

Imagine Jesus as a director of a company that accepts all sincere applicants. The director assumes responsibility for all the mistakes his employees make, but he doesn't assume responsibility for people who only claim to be employees. People who purposely commit crimes get fired and applications by people who apply with the purpose of commiting crimes get rejected for not being sincere. (That's not to say someone who once was fired can't reapply if they're actually sincere about it, but since God sees into people's hearts and minds, you can't trick him.)

Im Gegensatz zu Reddit kann man hier Titel korrigieren. 😉

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

There is not a single word that's universal to all languages.

1. Even if there had ever been one at some point, there are languages that have/had word retirement as part of the culture speaking it: If a word is used as someone's name and that person dies, that word is now taboo and a new word is needed to refer to what the old word stood for.

2. Conlanging, especially by laypeople, often explicitly makes up most or all of its vocabulary from scratch or uses cyphers to make the connection invisible. I wouldn't be surprised if a people made up their own secret language from scratch, maybe initially with very similar grammar, that developed into a native language for a community.

3. Have you heard of Cockney rhyming slang? Take a word like "fart", use a two part word that rhymes with it, like "raspberry tart", then drop the rhyming part. That leaves you with "raspberry" meaning "fart" and no discernible connection to the old words this utterance/meaning pair came from.

4. Sign languages are languages as well, and in multiple instances developed from the ground up without influence from the surrounding spoken languages.