Simone Sprenger

Simone Sprenger

@simonesprenger.bsky.social

Cognitive Psychologist at the Center for Language and Cognition, U of Groningen (CLCG), NL | I study how we understand and produce language, especially idioms | 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺🧶📚 🌸

1,391 Followers 2,038 Following 451 Posts Joined Nov 2023
3 months ago

Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat zutreffend 2024 entschieden, dass alle Frauen in Afghanistan Verfolgung ausgesetzt sind. Grundsätzlich ist ihnen Flüchtlingsschutz zu gewähren. Wenn die Bundesregierung offen darüber nachdenkt, auch Frauen abzuschieben, begeht sie wieder offenen Rechtsbruch.

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3 months ago
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‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour.

In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.

‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.

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4 months ago

Het werkt! Sophie Straat is de hoogste nieuwe binnenkomer. Maar we moeten nog even door om de racisten te verdrijven.
Wij zijn met meer.

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4 months ago
Röntgenstrahl, der | Substantiv, Maskulinum

Conrad #Röntgen bekam den ersten #Physik​-Nobelpreis überhaupt. Um eine bahnbrechende Entdeckung, die er heute vor 130 Jahren in seinem Labor machte, geht es im Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/R%c3%b6ntgenstrahl

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4 months ago

Ach joh, gewoon de gordijnen dicht. Niemand die het ziet. 😉

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4 months ago

Wat ook perfect werkt is gewoon het hele album luisteren en ondertussen door de keuken dansen. open.spotify.com/track/4EIM7Q...

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4 months ago

Ff lekker mansplainen dat al die Sophie Straat goede bedoelingen alleen werken bij het juist toepassen van de truc.

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4 months ago
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Er gaat een oproep rond om veel en massaal naar Vrijheid, Gelijkheid, Zusterschap van Sophie Straat op Spotify te luisteren. Als protest dat een anti-AZC nummer (gegenereerd door AI) op 1 gaat komen en dat willen we niet.

Wij zijn met meer. Doen jullie mee?

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4 months ago

He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...

"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"

#NihilismAndTechnology

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4 months ago

Dit gaat over promovendi, niet over studenten

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4 months ago

A couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about someone she knew who had been on maternity leave, and said she had taken "the full year." I said, "A whole year? Wow, what kind of fancy job does she have that gives her a YEAR of leave?" and my friend looked surprised & said, "... welcome to Canada?"

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4 months ago
Beutekunst, die | Substantiv, Femininum

Eintreten für die #Kultur​güter eines teuer besiegten und selbst erbarmungslosen Gegners? Von der dafür nötigen großen Menge Großmut und #Menschlichkeit berichtet der Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/Beutekunst

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4 months ago
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

Very sad to see the major university in the East Midlands 'suspending' (i.e. planning to close) key courses like Modern Languages and Music and scaling back Nursing. It's a scandal that top universities are just being left to go to the wall after years of underfunding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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4 months ago
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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4 months ago

Indeed. Supranationalism (which is NOT repeat NOT the same as federalism) was the point from the very beginning.
And why? So France and Germany would never be at war again.
People who call that small can, respectfully, p*ss off.

(Also glad for people like David who explain this stuff.)

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4 months ago

Also entweder ist PostVac einer "leichte" Erkrankung, die man durch Placebo Therapien in Griff bekommt, außer dass man danachals Nebenwirkung Bitcoin oder NEM-Influencer wird. Oder es sind, wie schon oft vermutet Nocebo-Effekte oder Nebenwirkungen einer Infektion... bsky.app/profile/fake...

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4 months ago

Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."

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4 months ago

Yes NATO is crucial. Yes the EU lacks power. But it is so reductive to think that peace comes only from who has the most rockets, while forgetting why countries would use these rockets in the first place. Centuries of Europeans killing each other, not trusting each other. All that stuff runs deep &/

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4 months ago

How glib and superficial and frankly ignorant can you be to dismiss this. How dare you suggest that France and Germany being close allies and friends is a small or even (in the words of many British colleagues) “weird“ and dispensable achievement.

I have had enough of it.

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4 months ago
Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

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4 months ago
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‘We zien niks schokkends’, zegt de woordvoerder van de varkensboeren.

Ah. Dit vinden ze dus normaal?

Ziek, dat is het.

Kamervragen in de maak. En: ons wetsvoorstel voor een einde asn de bioindustrie ligt al bij de (nieuwe) Kamer.

Aan de slag! Dit dierenleed moet stoppen.

nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

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4 months ago
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‘De VVD is nog nauwelijks een politieke partij’ | De Druktemaker | NPO Radio 1 YouTube video by NPO Radio 1

Pieter Derks over de @vvdonline.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOkk...

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4 months ago

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

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4 months ago

Ouch

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4 months ago

Als je het vaak genoeg herhaalt, gaan mensen het geloven.

📈 Bedrijfswinsten op een historisch hoog niveau
💰 Winstquote = één van de hoogste in de EU
📉 Arbeidsinkomensquote op een dieptepunt

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4 months ago

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

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4 months ago
Screenshot Spiegel.de: Wie die Ministeriumsspitze selbst die Lage in Syrien einschätzt, zeigte sich bei der Planung einer letztlich gescheiterten Delegationsreise im August von Beamten nach Damaskus: Die Teilnehmer sollten ausschließlich in gepanzerten Fahrzeugen unterwegs sein und jede Nacht zurück in den Libanon fahren.

Übernachten in Damaskus: So etwas sei viel zu gefährlich.

🎤 🫳

www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...

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4 months ago
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The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage.

Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one.

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4 months ago
Workers strip rose petals to make perfume, Grasse, France, 1915. 

Grasse, located in the Provence region, was the main hub of France’s perfume industry, with local factories processing flowers grown in surrounding fields. The rose petals were typically used to produce essential oils and absolutes through methods such as enfleurage and distillation. During this period, perfume making was still a labor-intensive process, often carried out by women who worked long hours during the flower harvest season.

Workers strip rose petals to make perfume, Grasse, France, 1915.

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