“Schießen” means to shoot.
“Scheißen” means to shit.
There’s this tiny difference in the order of these letters and the words are pronounced very differently but they look very much alike.
Especially when you’re typing fast. Especially when you’ve written for the last eight hours and it’s five in the morning and your tired soul is preparing to leave your body. Especially when Microsoft Word doesn’t underline anything because it doesn’t get the error, because technically, spelling-wise, there is none.
This fear, coming even before getting historical facts wrong, the story being boring or my writing being just bad, that I might embarrass myself and my characters because somewhere in this huge pile of over 130k words, in a serious and completely unfunny meant chapter there might be a soldier unintentionally shitting, not shooting, keeps me up at night.
Languages are made up can you believe that? it’s just a bunch of phonetic sounds gibberish none of it actually means anything. this post??? i could smash my hand on the keyboard and it could mean the same thing, it only doesn’t because we say so. Nothing is real
jacques derrida is gonna rise from his grave and give you a high five bc you just described his theory to 75,000 teenagers and they listened
can you believe there are people out there who speak MULTIPLE languages and then APOLOGIZE for not having perfect grammar in their third or fourth language?????? like do you know how incredible you are???
The Greeks had this word, right, we have no idea where it came from, it just kinda popped up out of nowhere, and it could mean either apples, cheeks, or boobs. Problem is it looked and sounded *exactly* like another, unrelated word which could mean sheep, goat, or any animal in general really, which must have got confusing if you were a farmer talking about your livestock, but anyway…
Then the Romans, having stolen practically everything else from the Greeks, thought they’d nick this word too, because Latin isn’t confusing enough without throwing in a bunch of loan words. And they adopted it to mean a pumpkin.
Then the English came along and were all like “when in Rome”, and stole it, where it became our word ‘melon’. Which has now come back to mean boobs.
BECAUSE IF SOMETHING TRULY HURT, IT NEVER REALLY STOPS
thats because its a fucking adjective and you don’t conjugate fuking adjectives like this is the same for literally every adjective ever like goddamn why i gotta be the damn elementary school teacher on this website
you will be stinky
you are stinky
you were stinky
BECAUSE IF SOMEONE IS TRULY STINKY, THEY NEVER REALLY STOP
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