Всем любителям немецкого посвящается: отличия между Deutsch и другими унылыми языками мира.

Общественное мнение часто отказывает в благосклонности немецкому языку. Однако обилие согласных и еще большее обилие их самых разнообразных сочетаний позволяет описывать звуками этого языка самые разнообразные явления жизни и душевного настроя.

В немецком всего лишь 25 букв по сравнению с русскими 33-мя. Он также отличается от других языков сложностью своей грамматики: склонение существительных, прилагательных и артиклей, спряжение глаголов и другие грамматические тонкости. Однако самым большим камнем преткновения для изучающих язык становится длина немецких слов. Она удивляет не только русскоговорящих, но и носителей других европейских языков.

Сравнивая Deutsch с другими европейскими языками, лингвисты, филологи и просто любители словесности создали интересные мемы, которые наглядным образом показывают уникальность и особенность немецких слов.

Шпрехен зи дойч?

Бабочка

Самолет

Ручка

Лепестки

Маргаритка

Скорая помощь

Наука

Различие

Золушка

Как немцы слышат родную речь?

Как немецкий язык звучит со стороны?

Интересные факты о немецком языке:

— Немецкое слово «Gift» значит «яд», а вовсе не подарок. Так что бойтесь немцев, дары приносящих, особенно если это «Gift».

— Немецкое слово «Rat» значит «совет», а не крыса. Так что «Rat» от немецких друзей — это хорошо (но опасайтесь «Gifts»).

— Первая в мире печатная книга была на немецком языке. В 1455 изобретатель книгопечатания Иоанн Гуттенберг напечатал на немецком языке Библию, которая содержала 42 страницы. Сейчас на немецком языке печатается каждая десятая книга в мире.

— Каждый год немецкий язык начинают изучать 15-18 миллионов человек.

А еще у немцев много забавных пословиц:
— Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei! У всего есть конец, и только у сосиски — два.
— Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof. Я понимаю только железнодорожные станции (ничего не понимаю).
— Das ist nicht dein Bier! Это не ваше пиво! (Не ваше дело).

И еще один факт — несколько странный. Немецкий чуть не стал официальным языков Соединенных Штатов Америки. Континентальный Конгресс, который проводился в Филадельфии во время Революции, задумался о том, следует ли принять новый язык, чтобы совершенно разорвать связи с Англией. В качестве возможных вариантов предлагались немецкий, иврит и французский. Но когда дело дошло до голосования, английский победил — перевесом всего в один голос!

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Leo Robitschek at the NoMad in New York. [Photograph: Alice Gao]

The Manhattan Cocktail Classic kicks off tonight with the Gala at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. Organizers expect to serve something like 22,000 cocktails tonight; prepping that many drinks takes some planning and hard work. I talked to Leo Robitschek, bar manager at NoMad and Eleven Madison Park, about the process of preparing and batching up cocktails for such a large gathering.

The Gala is probably the biggest cocktail event of the year in New York City. I understand you'll be prepping Campari cocktails for the event.

When Campari emailed me asking if I would work alongside gaz regan and Jacques Bezuidenhout, two individuals who I truly respect and admire, I was honored and excited.

Tell me about the cocktails you'll be serving.

I will be serving a proprietary cocktail called the Pabo Amargo. It's a variation on a Boulevardier using Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon, Diplomatico Rum, East India Solera Sherry, and Campari.

I've written before about making bottle-sized batches of cocktails for parties. But in that case, the process entailed taking a 3-ounce cocktail and batching it up to a 25-ounce bottle. You're obviously working on a much larger scale here, but is the idea the same? Just scale each ingredient up and then adjust at the end for balance?

Batching isn't a perfect science. For the most part you can simply scale up the ingredients, but you should always decrease items that are concentrated in flavors such as absinthe, bitters, and Chartreuse. It's nearly impossible to remove an ingredient from a batch once you've mixed it in. Adding more of an ingredient to balance a cocktail, though, is easier and more cost effective.

In batching, how do you adjust for small ingredients like bitters? What's the equivalent of 1,000 dashes of bitters, for example?

This varies based on the brand of bitters. Most of the brands use different size orifice reducers for their bottles. Thanks to Dave Arnold and Don Lee we know that 41 dashes of Angostura is equivalent to 1 ounce of bitters—or 160 dashes if you use the Japanese Bitters bottles sold at Cocktail Kingdom. These measurements also have many variables such as how full the Angostura bottle is or how an individual bitter dashes. As a general rule of thumb, I initially reduce the bitters by 1/2 when batching. I then taste the batch and adjust for flavor.

Once the cocktails are batched up, how are they served? Are they kept on ice and then simply poured to order, or are they shaken over ice just before service?

You can chill and pre-dilute a batch and then just pour it, but we choose to not pre-dilute the cocktails. We'll be shaking or stirring each one to order.

Are there certain ingredients, such as fresh juices, that degrade when batched in advance? If so, how do you account for that? With ingredients such as fizzy waters or sparkling wines, do you usually add those at service, to keep them from going flat?

The citrus conversation is like opening a can of worms. There are many schools of thought when it comes to citrus, including types of juicers and shelf life. I generally batch citrus in advance but will only use the batch for the first 12 hours. Carbonated beverages are usually not batched and are instead incorporated into the cocktail as a finishing ingredient, unless you are planning to carbonate the batch at a later time.

Can we expect any surprises, such as bottled fizzy cocktails?

You will have to join us at the Campari bar to see...

What garnishes will you need to prepare in advance, and how many, approximately, of each kind?

We are preparing orange twists, lemon twists, and orange wheels. About 300 of each.

Ice must be a challenge at an event like the Gala. How do you make sure it stays cold and hard and frozen until service? What do you do if it starts melting?

The trick is assessing your ice and changing your stir or shake durations as a result. This is even an issue at the best bars. Fresh ice from the freezer or an ice machine is different from ice that's been sitting in a bin for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or an hour. The only way to ensure consistency is straw-tasting drinks as you serve them.

About the author: Michael Dietsch approaches life with a hefty dash of bitters. He lives with wife, son, and cats in Brooklyn. You can reach him on twitter at @dietsch.

Remember two years ago when a man raised $67,436 so that Detroit would finally get its RoboCop statue? Well geeks, it looks like the first version of the statue, which is 10 foot tall, is almost finished, and is ready to be sent to Venus Bronze Works for casting.

In other related news, Detroit’s pigeons have started crapping themselves all over the city.

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Amidst the flurry of news regarding pilot pick-ups, cancellations and unexpected steps closer to six seasons and a movie, one title stood out, especially to Marvel fans: Disney’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC has now officially ordered the hotly anticipated Joss Whedon-directed pilot to series, laying to rest any unease over whether the pilot would suffer the fate of so many Chitauri. To sweeten the deal, ABC will allow eager agents to get their first look at the series by airing a preview during Sunday’s season finale of Once Upon a Time. I don’t know about you guys, but this is the best news I’ve heard since J. August Richards joined the cast.

Doesn’t this look rad? Here’s the official description below. Stay tuned for more news to come:

Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel’s feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson’s team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).

From Executive Producers Joss Whedon (“Marvel’s The Avengers,” ”Buffy the Vampire Slayer”); Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” pilot co-writers (“Dollhouse,” “Dr.Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”); Jeffrey Bell (“Angel,” “Alias”); and Jeph Loeb (“Smallville,” “Lost,” “Heroes”) comes Marvel’s first TV series.  “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television.

What would you like to see from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Let us know in the comments below.

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Dedicated to Rajat for his birthday today! Happy b-day!

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Ticket-buying fans have a right to voice their displeasure when attending a game. But in their dealings with teams and players, there is a line you do not cross.

A so-called fan crossed that line at Toledo's Fifth Third field Tuesday night.

Mud Hens beat writer John Wagner of the Toledo Blade reports a disgruntled idiot fan went after after former Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge, who is currently playing for the Indianapolis Indians, the Pirates' Triple-A affiliate.

According to eyewitness reports, in the early innings of the contest the unidentified fan was throwing peanuts at the Indians’ Brandon Inge, who spent significant time with both the Detroit Tigers and Hens.

Then it got ugly.

Before the fifth inning began, the fan came to railing on the far side of the Indianapolis dugout and exchanged words with Inge. A number of Inge’s teammates came to his defense, with several attempting to jump the railing that separated them from the fan. The fan was escorted out of the ballpark but attempted to throw beer on the Indians before leaving.

There's a few lessons all fans can take from this incident.

• Brandon Inge could kick your drunk, peanut-throwing ass three ways from Sunday.
• Despite what you might believe, no one thinks your mean-spirited heckling of a beloved former player is funny.
  
• Getting into an altercation with men who have direct access to baseball bats is stupid.
• It's criminal to waste a perfectly good beer.
• Don't be an idiot.
• Again, don't be an idiot.
  

I was originally going to post a GIF of Miguel Cabrera's opposite field home run because of obvious reasons, but then I saw this gem.

I don't even know what my favorite part of this GIF is. Is it the two people in the second row who are too busy looking at their phones to even notice? Is it the guy in the blue laughing hysterically at his friends, who dove out of the way? Seriously, it's intoxicating.

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Stranded in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a man sets in motion an unlikely plan to protect the precious cargo he carries: his infant daughter.

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VIEW SLIDESHOW: Ask a Bartender: What Liquor Should More People Know?

Bartenders work with plenty of spirits you're familiar with, but also make drinks with other booze that you might not recognize. We asked 28 bartenders about which liquors many people don't know about, but should. Here's what they had to say.

About the author: Carey Jones is the Senior Managing Editor of Serious Eats. Follow her on Twitter (@careyjones).

So, there are a lot of Doctor Who-related items for sale out there, but, um, THIS:

Yes, that’s a remote control flying TARDIS. Let that roll around in your brain for a few seconds.

The item from the folks at Underground Toys is being sold by Entertainment Earth, which is taking pre-orders here for July delivery. I don’t think it makes the noise, but, well, I mean, remote control flying TARDIS. $46.99. Underground Toys has a TARDIS that makes the sound when you open the door, but it doesn’t fly. This one does. Want.

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Threadless has a new collection of Iron Man-themed shirts, and holy crap, I want all of them. These are among the coolest shirt designs I’ve seen in a while. My favorite is probably the one you see below, but you can check out the rest over at Threadless.com (Regular and Lady Tees).

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Mehdi Sadaghdar, aka the crazy electrical engineer, is back, and this time, he shows us the do’s and don’ts of changing a lightbulb.

There are many things that can go wrong when you change a light bulb, worst of them being sticking your finger in the light fixture to pick something up while it is still live. (Never do this, ok?)

The danger of getting shocked is not only dying by electricity, but also in some cases when one has to climb up somewhere insecure to change the bulb, they can fall and get hurt.

You can read Mehdi’s full post on the subject right here.

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Thanks to these Dark Side knit boxers from superherostuff.com, you’ll soon be on your way to become more powerful than the emperor himself!

The Star Wars Power Dark Side Knit Boxers highlights the epic duel between Master and Apprentice, one that you have probably re-enacted a thousand times over. On the backside of this pair of underwear is the phrase,’Feel the Power of the Dark Side’! My guess is that it probably shouldn’t be exposed to an open flame.

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The perfect ringtone for your cellphone.

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At the Game Developers Conference last week, Activision unveiled a new breakthrough in real-time computer rendering and animation.

Take a look:

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Hockey Puck

How hard would a puck have to be shot to be able to knock the goalie himself backwards into the net?

—Tom

This can’t really happen.

It’s not just a problem of hitting it hard enough. This blog isn’t concerned with that kind of limitation. Humans with sticks can’t make a puck go much faster than about 50 meters per second, so we’ll assume this puck is launched by a hockey robot or an electric sled or a hypersonic light gas gun.

The problem, in a nutshell, is that hockey players are heavy and pucks are not. A goalie in full gear outweighs a puck by a factor of about 600. Even the fastest slap shot has less momentum than a ten-year-old skating along at a mile per hour.

Hockey players also can brace pretty hard against the ice. A player skating at full speed can stop in the space of a few meters, which means the force they’re exerting on the ice is pretty substantial. (It also suggests that if you started to slowly tilt a hockey rink, it could get up to 50 degrees before the players would all slide to one end. Clearly, experiments are needed to confirm this.)

From estimates of collision speeds in hockey videos, and some guidance from a hockey player friend, I estimated that the 165-gram puck would have to be moving somewhere between Mach 2 and Mach 8 to knock the goalie backward into the goal—faster if the goalie is bracing against the hit, and slower if the puck hits at an upward angle.

Firing an object at Mach 8 is not, in itself, very hard. One of the best methods for doing so is the aforementioned hypersonic gas gun, which is—at its core—the same mechanism a BB gun uses to fire BBs.

But a hockey puck moving at Mach 8 will have a lot of problems. It’s not on the same scale as a relativistic baseball, but the air ahead of the puck would be compressed and heated very rapidly. It wouldn’t be going fast enough to ionize the air and leave a glowing trail like a meteor, but the surface of the puck would (given enough time) start to melt or char.

The air resistance, however, will slow the puck down very quickly, so a puck going at Mach 8 when it leaves the launcher might be going a fraction of that when it arrives at the goal. And even at Mach 8, the puck probably wouldn’t pass through the goalie’s body. Instead, it would burst apart on impact with the power of a large firecracker or small stick of dynamite.

If you’re like me, when you first saw this question, you might’ve imagined the puck leaving a cartoon-style hockey-puck-shaped hole. But that’s because our intuitions are shaky about how materials react at very high speeds.  

Instead, a different mental picture might be more accurate: Imagine throwing a ripe tomato—as hard as you can—at a cake.

That’s about what would happen.

“To the Batmobile!”

The Batman Family Car Decal Set consists of three window stickers depicting a very sad Batman and two gravestones honoring his deceased parents (Dr. Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne). It is available to purchase at ThinkGeek.

Gotham Showers

The rain beats down.
It floods the filth into the streets
But doesn’t cleanse the city.
I stood in the rain waiting for my parents.
No one came, and my dreams were washed away.

-B. Wayne, age 9

“That poem was written by Master Bruce many years ago. I’ve tried everything to make him smile: from finding him new Robins when the old ones get boring (or too old or too dead), to getting him the latest in tech gear, to adding marshmallows to his cocoa. Nothing seemed to work. Until I got him this Batman Family Car Decal Set, that is. Then he smiled, but I suspect it was a sadly ironic smile. Oh well – can’t have everything.”

-Alfred Pennyworth

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This is hilarious.

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gaeth:

Turns out Netflix is a dick

(I am working a morning shift at a cafe. We are serving breakfast. A little boy and his mother enter the cafe.)

Me: “So, what will it be?”

Child: “I WISH TO DEVOUR THE UNBORN.”

(There is a sudden silence and everyone turns to look. The mother looks very embarrassed.)

Mother: “Eggs… he would like some eggs…”

OMG. I normally wouldn’t post this, but I spent the last 3 minutes crying from laughter over this video.

I’m so sorry.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. :)

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It's been called a precursor to all fermented drinks, and there's a reason for that: it's easy to make. So easy, in fact, that you can do it at home....

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