For Those with a Lidil

@mehcuda67 A lidil of this, a lidil of that…

@riceatusc there are things about each that I like/dislike.

My main preference for Lidl over Aldi is self check-out lanes. I tend to get only what I need for day/next day and don’t have many items.

At Aldi I find myself waiting in lines for 10 mins to buy one or two items. Lidl I’m in and out using self checkout.

The other thing I prefer about Lidl (at least pre-covid) was the bakery.

A lot of Aldi store label brands are better than Lidls though.

Another major beef with Aldi is that any produce I buy from them, if I don’t use it same day seems to rot really quickly. I won’t do produce from Aldi anymore for that reason.

Both stores have terrible customer service.

@mehcuda67 Or… the opposite? Like Plehnert’s Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih in Hamburg.

@mehcuda67 @ruouttaurmind oh they love to have long complex words, why??

@tinamarie1974 The guy who invented long German words had a old typewriter and the space bar was kaputt. The result is all those lovely long words you know and love today.

True story.

@ruouttaurmind now if only I could pronounce those words. I do quite well with enuciaton of romance languages, however German is a challenge. I still cannot pronounce my bosses name properly (German).

Prost!

@tinamarie1974 Many miles ago I did a bunch of work for a German telecommunications firm with a huge sales and engineering facility in Phoenix. Around 80% of the staff were relocated from the office in Munich. Entering their building was like being teleported to Germany. Most of the internal communications were in Deutsch, as was most of the internal signage. Even the cafeteria was very much not-American in it’s function, appearance and menu. Occasionally, through oversight, they would provide me documents in Deutsch and I would have to submit them back to their internal translators who would interpret the documents and send them back to me.

Fun times.

@ruouttaurmind sounds familiar. I am the only person on my team in the US. Although my team members are sprinkled all over the globe, more than half (including my mgmt team) are located in DEU. Learning how to interact and communicate with them was very interesting and is still a struggle several years later.

And thank goodness for Google Translate

@tinamarie1974 Sadly, my experience was before Al Gore invented the internet and Google Translate was not even a glimmer in Sergey’s eye.

@mehcuda67 @ruouttaurmind @tinamarie1974 complex words is one thing… Then there is the gender of common nouns all the different cases and nightmare grammer…

Not just two genders for nouns like a lot of languages but three… And some make little sense (when starting). Such as the word for boy being masculine but the word for girl being… not feminine as you would expect, but Neutral.

(There’s actually a good explanation for why girl is neutral, but it’s still confusing when you’re first getting started.)

@ruouttaurmind You must be from the messenger routing envelope era. They closed with a string wrapped around a cardboard button.

@OldCatLady Yes, when I was working my way through school I entered the corporate environment at the end of this era (and the beginning of inter office private email/PM servers). All those manila envelopes with lines and lines of crossed-off names. That German firm still had an active Telex node with a dedicated satline to the Munch HQ. Good times.

@OldCatLady @ruouttaurmind We still use those envelopes occasionally when having to send a physical document (or other assorted trinkets) between offices. Sometimes the old way is still the easiest way.

@mehcuda67 Better than dutch where they 50 consonants to a word like oil and come out with words like oilsdrtgzrkbrslgnbgr

@mike808 maybe? looks like danish pastry.

@cinoclav