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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • The other commenters have already explained it diligently, but I wanted to hop on for something related.

    As a German speaker, it actually irritates me a little, that English doesn’t agglutinate. Let’s take the word “gum ball machine”.

    Which is it? It’s a machine. So are “gum” and “ball” descriptors of “machine”? Well no, they’re all nouns. But they’re not all subjects or objects of a sentence. They’re one subject together. But they’re not written together.

    If I had a red gum ball machine, is it a red machine made out of gum that produces balls? Ok, it can also be spelt gumball machine. But that’s still multiple words per concept.

    I like my nouns to be one word if it’s one thing and one subject.






  • It looks like Spanish realism transported out of the quaint villages into the harsh reality of industrialised cities, therefore expressing the sentiment of the “Stadtgedichte” of the 1920’s.

    The contrast between the flower on her dress, the potted plant on the balcony and the dark chimneys and chaotic shop signs in the background.

    Beautiful.