I recorded conversations held by non-native German speakers who learned mostly in classes and compared their particle (well, just, right, etc.) usage with that of non-native speakers who learned mostly without instruction. Then I compared those to native speakers. Now I just have to make the case for better particle instruction in German classes. It should be easy because I’ve already illustrated that particle usage is important for communication and affects the perceived language skill of the user, but ugh, writing.
I set stuff on fire and they pay me for it
Are you in New Mexico, by chance?
Naa, lot of my buds went there though. Whole lot of empty space to blow stuff up
My buddy described his engineering research job similarly lmao. He blows stuff up in the desert.
This is what my uncle and auntie do! I think it more involves chemicals and long time period trials, but it is at Los Alamos! Fun times!
