This started in Amsterdam in the 1990s but now also happens in regional cities. Restaurants in Breda of all places has English speaking staff. At least there is still a head waiter who speaks Dutch. I personally don't mind much.
Whenever someone on Reddit says the Netherlands is xenophobic it makes me laugh.
Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?
> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin).
Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other:
Maybe word for word translation is the phrase we're looking for? As opposed to an idiomatic translation. Transliteration means phonetically translating from one alphabet to another, in order to p
reserve the pronunciation.
I tried it out in both Dutch (fluent) and Swedish (native speaker). The Dutch seemed fine. In Swedish most of it was perfectly ordinary Swedish except one response seemed like awkwardly translated English.
From the article: "PEN America defines a school book ban as any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished."
So I'd say it's more than "parent complaints". The books under discussion are not accessible anymore according to PEN's definition.
Since the honey also happens to be blue in this case, couldn't it be possible that these keepers are wrongfully blaming the M&M's factory? I think the main point of the article was that everyone has their own theory of what the cause is and are all pretty adamant about it:
>Some beekeepers, like Sheppard, swear the berries are to blame for the odd blue honey, which appears intermittently at most, and only in limited hives near the state’s Coastal Plain. Other keepers suspect it might be nectar from the kudzu that grows rampant over nearby fields and forests. Near Dunn, keepers with traces of blue in their hives point to the grapes the bees frequent. And in the eastern part of the state, beekeepers are watchful of the plant Summer Titi, or southern leatherwood.
Maybe Regolith [1] is something for you. It's an Ubuntu derivative that combines i3 and Gnome. It has sane defaults, a nice app launcher, and everything 'just works': audio, bluetooth, wifi.
I have been using Regolith for half a year now, after 10 years of endless tweaking of XMonad and Gnome under Ubuntu.
I am a very happy Arch (and sometimes NixOS) user but I am thrilled to know that Regolith leverages GNOME and i3 (I knew about Regolith using i3 but I didn't know it combined that with GNOME).
Gets me interested in getting my build setup like that!
I'm on Manjaro-i3-minimal from Mint+i3. Manjaro (Arch-based) seems so far a very good match. Minimal tweaking as most defaults are sane and looks good.
Most of the time was spent just to familiarize with Arch and find packages, which will pay off later.
I feel like Manjaro strikes a good balance at providing all the benefits of an Arch-based system without the downsides of stock Arch. For example, Arch's super newbie-unfriendly install process. Hopefully the archinstall script[1] now included in the official Arch ISO eventually becomes a more mainstream method of installing Arch -- but still allows for users like me to do the by-hand installation when I need custom/more flexible configuration.
I would say if someone is curious to give Arch a try but doesn't want to go through the installation process that they should give archinstall a try! In my opinion, the preset profiles (for GNOME, KDE, etc.) really removes a bunch of friction to using Arch if you are a new user or just want to save yourself time.
(I would imagine my views don't reflect the majority of the Arch community as it often seems like deliberate steps are taken to keep Arch as a gated community to those who are elite enough to invest in Arch 100%)
I get Arch. The docs are spot on. It's very polished and you can actually learn quite a bit.
However, for work, I need something not bleeding edge, and hope Manjaros tests and security test, will help in that regard. That it's a positive thing they wait about 2 weeks.
I had to tweak Manjaro a little, but so much worked out of the box. Don't have that dedicated time for ricing, though default installs in Arch seems very sanely configured.
It's interesting (to me at least) because I have ended up using Arch for all my personal servers and workstations and it has been pretty rock solid! Although, I typically use containers for running all the applications I care about -- which might lend to the stability I have seen with my systems.
We need a quick fix. I'm based in the Netherlands, two thirds of which is threatened by a sea level rise within the next hundred years. If that sounds far away to you: my grandmother died at age 99. There's a very reasonable chance my children, teenagers right now, will live through this.
It seems likely the sea rise will be a multi-century, unrelenting, ongoing event of rise upon rise that will not stop at the levels envisaged by anyone planning any mitigations. So, no.
There is a reason scientists are concerned.
On the positive side for the Netherlands, their expertise will be coveted worldwide as hapless nations futilely seek to forestall the inevitable stage by stage.
The original article uses the plural too, Mittelstands, but it sounds really weird in German since it's more of mass noun (it's as if you referred to various pots of sugar as 'the sugars'). I believe the correct word would be Mittelständler, but if you're going to anglicize it, Mittelstanders would much better than Mittelstands in my opinion. Then again, I'm not a native speaker of either German or English...
the "-stand" comes from the German word for "estate" in the medieval sense [1]. It's typically translated with small- and medium-sized enterprises, which is also the lingo used at EU level. As you said, it's a mass noun, so if you want to refer to an individual enterprise belonging to the "Mittelstand," you'd effectively use it as an adjective and speak of e.g. a Mittlestand firm.
How would you call a person belonging to the Mittelstand in German? In another Germanic language, Dutch, you would say "middenstander" (or plural"middenstanders"), derived from "middenstand".
Oh yeah, if we talk about a person, like the business owner or founder, I'd use Mittelständler and if I desperately tried to anglicize it to Mittelstander
The eye makeup 'kohl' is in no way related to the German word for cabbage. Apparently it's an Arabic word (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kohl). Funnily enough, Kohle (with a schwa at the end) in German means coal (as a mass noun) which is of course black, like the eye makeup.
You might want to reconsider Moodle as an option. There's a new version (4.0) coming up early 2022 with a major UI overhaul. It looks like a big improvement, with the UX design at least ten times better than the current version (though admittedly the bar as set by the current version is not very high).
That said, end users (students / learners) need not be bothered by the sad state of the current backend: you can configure Moodle so they'll only get to see the easy parts (I've seen Moodle used in primary education on two different occasions).
As for your requirements, it looks as though Moodle's got them all covered (depending on the details of course). Except maybe for the live classes, which will probably require a 3rd party plugin.
Other things to consider:
- Cost of customization: Moodle developers are harder find than, say, WordPress developers. Putting something together based on WordPress might also get you there, for less money.
- Edtech standards: Moodle supports H5P, SCORM & LTI out of the box (WordPress has limited support for SCORM & LTI, full support for H5P). This means you can integrate your Moodle based platform with a lot of other systems, offering your courses to customers on their own platforms, when they might otherwise not be willing to do business with you.
- Community support: Moodle's the largest open source LMS out there, and it has excellent support forums. There's also commercial support available through Moodle partners (and, shameless plug, parties such as myself, who offer Moodle customization services).
- Shopping cart / payment features: you can put individual courses behind a paywall, but overall Moodle does not really support e-commerce features (except through integrations such as Edwiser Bridge).
- Installation & deployment: since you're looking for an open source solution, I'm going to assume you want to host the platform yourself. In that case, you might want to look for a system that's easy to install and maintain. WordPress & Moodle have got you covered there, since they're based on LAMP, for which a lot of documentation and external expertise is available.
- Enterprise features: do you require features like advanced customizable reporting, integrations with HR systems, and certification programs? Then you might want to look into Totara. I wouldn't call it open source, though you can host and customize the source code yourself once you buy their per seat licensing (still cheaper than most enterprise LMS solutions out there). Totara's based on a Moodle fork, although they're slowly moving away from the Moodle core code base.
[Edited for layout; added clarification on Totara]
