<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2021, at 5:19 PM, <a href="mailto:russellbell@gmail.com" class="">russellbell@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You wrote "deine Härte" the other day. Hardness is<br class="">unambiguous? You mean it refers to a penis?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>That would make sense I guess, in as much as any of these kinds of semantic extensions do.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Professor Ned: 'FWIW voice sounds female to me.'<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I thought that, but we're primed to think that because he<br class="">refers to the speaker as she & her. 2 separate German speakers in 2<br class="">separate threads independently volunteered the opinion that the<br class="">speaker is a man. It didn't occur to me before that.<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/nqdz3i/the_last_3_minutes_of_joe_franks_fat_man_down/" class="">https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/nqdz3i/the_last_3_minutes_of_joe_franks_fat_man_down/</a><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/qfy27l/the_german_in_joe_franks_dreams_of_the_river/<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Fair enough. Expectations certainly have a big effect! And the one redditor is no doubt right, it’s probably <i class="">Wut</i>. I had trouble with a few onset consonants in other words, possibly because of the lossy compression.</div><div><br class=""></div>ned<div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>