The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread IV

[Dachs]

Does anyone else use the word "google" as a verb? If you do, how do you spell the act of using google? (Like run is to running)

Googling? Googleing?

I use google as a verb. (So do Germans: googeln. ) I say 'googling'.

 

[Mowque]

i believe the term just stays as 'to google'...as in..Just google it.

 

[Mirc]

I use the verb "to google". The -ing form for me is "googling".

 

[Annex]

i believe the term just stays as 'to google'...as in..Just google it.

"to google" is just the infinitive.

You would say "He is googling it"

Though that does look really strange

 

[PeteAtoms]

Thanks for the answers guys. I was just having one of those moments where you look at word and think, 'that can't possibly be right, it looks so weird...'

 

[Love]

In sweden we say Googla -r

 

[Mirc]

I don't think there is a way to build a Romanian version of that verb.

a gugălări? a gugli? a gugăli? a gugăla? (the "ă" representing a schwa, like in the English "Google")

 

[Traitorfish]

I have a tendency to read "googling" as "goggling", which always causes a split second of confusion...

 

[Rashiminos]

In a hypothetical situation, a person looking to buy a car test drives it. The person gets in an accident due to defect in the car (ie brakes failing). How should the damage liabilities be handled?

 

[Cutlass]

In a hypothetical situation, a person looking to buy a car test drives it. The person gets in an accident due to defect in the car (ie brakes failing). How should the damage liabilities be handled?

When driving a car owned by a dealership. The dealer is required to provide a license plate. That "dealer plate" carries insurance. The dealer is required to make certain that the person driving the car has a valid drivers license. So the answer is that the driver is responsible for any violations of traffic law that may result in an accident, but the owner of the car, the dealer, is responsible financially for insurance and liability.

 

[Mirc]

I have a tendency to read "googling" as "goggling", which always causes a split second of confusion...

I did the same at first, but somehow I trained myself to make the difference quickly.

 

[Cutlass]

What are piano wires made out of?

 

[Mowque]

What are piano wires made out of?

General-purpose, high-carbon steel, drawn music wire (such as ASTM A228) is manufactured in both inch and metric gauges in diameters as small as 0.006 inch up to 0.192 inch (0.15 to 4.8 mm). A small number of companies produce the tough, high tensile strength polished wire intended for limited music instrument markets, which is manufactured from steel of a specific composition by cold drawing.

 

[Cutlass]

General-purpose, high-carbon steel, drawn music wire (such as ASTM A228) is manufactured in both inch and metric gauges in diameters as small as 0.006 inch up to 0.192 inch (0.15 to 4.8 mm). A small number of companies produce the tough, high tensile strength polished wire intended for limited music instrument markets, which is manufactured from steel of a specific composition by cold drawing.

Ok, thanks. I didn't know if they were a brass or bronze alloy or a steel alloy. I have a ruined piano to dispose of.

 

[Shekwan]

Are Germans born weird or is there something about the place that makes them that way?

I just saw into a nearby apartment where I know the residents are German and I saw about four people doing what I can only describe as a cheesy 90s pop music coordinated dance. Looks like fun but where do they get these ideas?

I've heard going to anywhere in Germany except Berlin is like going a decade into the past in terms of pop culture too, can anyone attest to this?

Cue angry non Berliner responses...

 

[salty mud]

Are Germans born weird or is there something about the place that makes them that way?

I just saw into a nearby apartment where I know the residents are German and I saw about four people doing what I can only describe as a cheesy 90s pop music coordinated dance. Looks like fun but where do they get these ideas?

I've heard going to anywhere in Germany except Berlin is like going a decade into the past in terms of pop culture too, can anyone attest to this?

Cue angry non Berliner responses...

You think Germans are weird? I walked into a public bathroom in Newcastle to find a man masturbating. Tell me that's run-of-the-mill behaviour.

 

[Brighteye]

I have a tendency to read "googling" as "goggling", which always causes a split second of confusion...

I did the same at first, but somehow I trained myself to make the difference quickly.

I have noticed an annoying tendency for people to write them wrong, which doesn't help. Just as people write 'ogle' as 'oggle' for some reason.
I have used Google as a verb, but if I were to write it, I'd be sure to use the capital letter.

 

[Supr49er]

You think Germans are weird? I walked into a public bathroom in Newcastle to find a man masturbating. Tell me that's run-of-the-mill behaviour.

Was it George Michael?

 

[Rossiya]

You think Germans are weird? I walked into a public bathroom in Newcastle to find a man masturbating. Tell me that's run-of-the-mill behaviour.

That's disgusting.

 

[Mowque]

what is Viop?