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Some of you may know that I spent a year in Montreal, where I was too depressed by my overall situation not to make petty excuses about being too depressed by my overall situation to learn proper French. I am casually trying to remedy that, together with some attempts to revive my long-comatose Spanish, via podcasts and similar online resources.

In this context, I want to recommend the wordreference.com forums, where one can enjoy something as sublime as a discussion about whether dépassé is to be translated as overcome, overtaken or overwhelmed — all for free!

These days, we take things like that for granted [c'est tres magnifique!], but as of yet, I've only met twothree people in meatspace who can appreciate things like that and smartly make fun of the sheer nerdery in German at the same time. The Internet brings information about myriads of that kind of person to our fingertips in mere seconds!

What an age we live in — and I mean that less than one tenth of that ironically!