Fink About It

German is certainly not an easy language. Many people even claim that it is one of the most difficult languages in the world¹. But what is the point of comparing it to other living languages which, for English speakers even worse, only consist of glottal stops? And what is it exactly that makes German so hard to learn? Bastian Sick, who is the author of the Der Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod book series and who works as a journalist for the Spiegel magazine, is a major contributor to the insight that German obviously is a demanding language and challenging to learn and use for non-native speakers; had already understood impressively well in the 19^th century. This is going to be a critical essay about the intricacies of the German language and how they are depicted in Mark Twain’s The Awful German Language². In the following, I am going to outline the great writer’s perspective on the German language and I will also continue to evaluate on it from today’s point of view. Read on

1. That’s certainly not true given the almost unpronounceable guttural phonemes of Mongolian languages enriched with an over boarding grammar structure, for example. [↩]
2. If not marked separately, all subsequent quotations can be found in: Mark Twain, The Awful German Language, Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, 1963. [↩]

They come in the night, while you are sleeping. They take away the most precious in your blog: Your content. It’s the content thieves who are not finking about the work you’ve had to do in blogging so far.

Oh, My God! What The Fink Happened?

Recently I’ve been a victim to content theft. Most of my posts were taken and republished on another blog, along with the pictures in them that were simply hotlinked. So not only wasn’t my content uniquely attributed to me anymore, but the thief also rewarded me by stealing my bandwith.

The Problem

Apparently, a lot of people out there think that everything that you find in the net is free to use and to share. If you’re one of them, which I hope not, then you are a moron and should get a smacked bottom by whoever is sitting next to you. Everything that has been put in the net by someone, is protected by copyright. I know that YouTube and all other videoportals don’t exactly help making that point clear, since videos are pushed on the darn thing faster than the admins can check on them and say: “Don’t do it! This is not yours. Did you ask for permission?” Most common for image theft is Googles image search. There is no indication which pictures are free to use and which are not. And it is also lacking a warning¹. Read on

1. The information about copyright is so hard to find, I even had too google the page. [↩]

This is an informative essay about artificial intelligence. Firstly this essay will argue that artificial intelligence is nothing to be afraid about, and secondly that its development is driven by computer games. In the following I am going to explain how artificial intelligence works and how intelligence is created. To do this I will be looking at some representative movies and games to show how artificial intelligence is depicted. Finally I will investigate its restrictions and misbehaviors with the help of the “Tale-Spin-Program” which was developed in 1976 to invent animal fables. 
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