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  • bobbytables@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlit is german right?
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    1 year ago

    The name of the fish “Stör” is the same as the word “disturb”. That alone offers a lot of potential for bad puns.

    It is also weirdly common as a part of other words that don’t have anything to do with fish. And third, there are parts of words that sound similar to Stör.

    Take all those ingredients and you can have a lot of fun with strange word combinations and only native speakers have a realistic chance of understanding.


  • I’ll just say it: PHP. I mean the language itself is not really pretty (but came a long way).

    But I’ve got a nice side gig running where I help small businesses and schools to keep their old PHP based websites running and secure until they can afford a new system. In that area money is often very tight and there are no “content managers” but a few people maintaining content with next to no technological knowledge and in their spare time. So changing systems is a hard task. Being the really decently priced guy who keeps their PHP ship afloat is pretty rewarding (not really monetarily but personally).

    So working with PHP I have a very nice group of customers who are grateful for every bit of help. I love that.




  • One of the systems we currently use at work just shortens the first name to 1-4 characters and adds the last name. I still have to figure out on what criteria.

    The bad thing about it is that it sometimes changes names to the other gender - think Erica to Eric. I never realized how often that could be done in my language by chance and it only affects female names.

    Normally that would matter much but three weeks ago they established that account name as our new matrix chat handles…